Tower Seminar Room, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, 10th - 11th May 2010
Workshop Description:
The nuclear renaissance is driven by the growing awareness of global warming and issues associated with CO2 emissions, security of energy supply and waning fossil fuel reserves. The design of the next generation fission and fusion power plants presents significant challenges, one of which is the development of materials that will withstand the intense radiation environment. A further challenge is the safe disposal of radioactive waste, which again requires materials that are resistant to radiation damage.
However, there remain a number of important research challenges associated with the deployment of new nuclear power with extensive modelling of radiation damage in materials being a central activity of this initiative. The workshop provided a platform for researchers, especially students, to present their work on computational studies of materials in the nuclear environment. There were 12 talks in total and included a wide variety of subject areas such as quantum mechanical studies of defects in graphite, including electronic effects in atomistic molecular dynamics simulations and long time evolution of radiation-induced defects.
Invited speakers include:
Dr M. Bankhead (National Nuclear Laboratory) : General introduction to the nuclear industry and the application of computer simulation.
Dr D. Duffy (UCL) : Electronic effects in radiation damage simulations.
Prof. M Heggie (Sussex) : New ideas and calculations for radiation damage in graphite.
Mr C. Race (Imperial College London) : Adding quantum mechanical electrons to atomistic simulations of radiation damage in metals.
Prof. R. Smith (Loughborough) : Long time evolution of radiation-induced defects.
Dr K. Travis (Sheffield) : Topological analysis of radiation-induced disorder in Pu-doped Zirconolite
Programme:
Details of the workshop programme can be found here.
Acknowledgements:
CCP5 would like to thank Wendy Cotteril, Laura Johnston and Damian Jones for help in organising the workshop.
Last modified 18th February 2010
