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Nuclear energy in the 21st Century

12 - 13 March 2012 09:00 - 17:00

Organised by Professor Roger Cashmore FRS, Professor Robin Grimes and Dame Sue Ion FREng in association with the Royal Academy of Engineering



Download the draft programme here



Despite the recent events in 2011 the production of nuclear energy is still set to expand on a global scale to address issues of energy security, sustainability and climate change. This interdisciplinary meeting will bring together speakers from around the world to discuss what is happening and what needs to happen in scientific, technological and industrial R&D, regulation and understanding public perceptions- all important in decisions vital to the future.



Registration

This discussion meeting is intended for researchers in relevant fields and is free to attend, but pre-registration online is essential. 



An optional lunch is offered each day for £20+VAT per day, and should be booked at registration.  Payment is accepted online by Visa, MasterCard, Visa Debit, Maestro, Electron and Solo cards.



In the event of a booking for lunch being cancelled, the Society can only refund the payment providing the cancellation is received at no later than 5 working days before the Discussion Meeting.

Organisers

  • Photograph of Chairman Roger Cashmore- April 2011

    Professor Roger Cashmore FRS, UK Atomic Energy Authority

    "Roger Cashmore was appointed Chairman of the UK Atomic Energy Authority on 30 July 2010. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the former Principal of Brasenose College in Oxford, as well as being Professor of Experimental Physics in Oxford. Before returning to Oxford, he was Director of Research and Deputy Director General of CERN, the European high energy physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, where he was responsible for the experimental programme at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Before leaving for CERN he was Chairman of Physics in Oxford and during his teaching and research career he has more than 200 publications in learned journals. He has been a Visiting Professor in Tsukuba in Japan, Brussels, Padua, Fermilab in the United States and holds an Honorary Doctorate from the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia. He was awarded the C V Boys Prize of the Institute of Physics and a Research Award by the Alexander von Humbold Foundation in Germany. In 2004 he was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for services to international particle physics."

  • Dame Sue Ion GBE FREng FRS

    Dame Sue Ion GBE FRS FREng is Hon President of the National Skills Academy for Nuclear. She was previously Chairman of the UK Nuclear Innovation Research Advisory Board (NIRAB). She represents the UK on a number of international review and oversight committees for the nuclear sector including the Euratom Science and Technology Committee which she chaired until late 2018. She was the only non-US member of the US Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee on which she has served from 2005-2020.She currently serves as a member of the Office of Nuclear Regulation Independent Advisory Panel.

    Sue spent 27 years with British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL) rising to the position of Chief Technology Officer in 1992, a post she held until 2006 when she assumed a number of mainly voluntary roles in Science and Engineering, including membership of the UK Council for Science and Technology and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). She was Vice President of the Royal Academy of Engineering 2002-2008 and chaired its MacRobert Committee 2013-2019. Sue was Deputy Chair of the Board of the University of Manchester until September 2018 and currently serves on the Board of the University of Central Lancashire.

    Her core expertise is in materials science and engineering associated with the nuclear sector. Sue is a member of the Chief Scientific Advisor for Wales’s Science and Innovation Advisory Council. She has been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Materials at Imperial College since 2006, holds an Honorary Professorship at the University of Manchester and is now Chair of the Royal Society Science, Industry and Translation Committee.