Next Generation Accelerated Characterisation Technologies (EXACT)

Completed

Nuclear Fission and Fusion(Nuclear Fission, Nuclear supporting technologies)

Basic and strategic applied research

PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Chemistry)
PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Physics)
PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Metallurgy and Materials)

Not Cross-cutting

Professor PE Warwick
School of Ocean and Earth Science
University of Southampton

Standard

EPSRC

01 November 2019

30 April 2023

42 months

£1,095,314

Energy

South East

National Nuclear Users Facility

Professor PE Warwick, School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton

Professor A Cundy, School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton
Professor JA Milton, School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton
Dr J Whiteside, School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton

Project Contact, National Physical Laboratory (NPL)
Project Contact, Sandwell College
Project Contact, University of Bristol

Effective radioactive waste management is critically dependent on robust, focussed and efficient waste characterisation in order to reliably inform all management steps (including waste recovery, treatment / recycling, conditioning, storage, waste disposal) and the safety of the operators, the general public and the environment. The proposed NNUF-EXACT laboratory will be a world-leading radiochemistry facility enabling research and training in accelerated nuclear characterisation technologies underpinning civil (and Defence, where this overlaps with EPSRC remit) nuclear programmes, nuclear forensics, decommissioning and site clean-up, and nuclear new build. EXACT will provide an easily accessible state-of-the-art test-bed facility and supporting infrastructure for research, technology development (and validation), and training in in-situ, on-site and off-site characterisation methods, including for complex / problem waste streams

12/11/21