EPSRC: Research nuclear energy with a US partner

09/09/2021

22/09/2021

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the US Department of Energy, through the Nuclear Energy University Programme, invites applications to their research nuclear energy with a US partner call. This supports participation of UK researchers with US partners in projects on nuclear energy. The total budget £2.5 million. Funding may last for up to three years. Funding covers up to 80 per cent of the full economic cost for the UK partner.

The project must address one of these areas: •understanding, predicting and optimising the physical properties, structure and dynamics of molten salts; •next generation light-water reactor fuels for small modular reactor applications; •disposal of spent fuel and waste disposition advanced small modular reactors; •automated optimisation for reactor core design.

The UK participant must be a UK resident and be employed at the submitting research organisation at a level equivalent to lecturer or above, hold a fixed-term contract that extends beyond the duration of the proposed project, and the host research organisation is prepared to give all the support normal for a permanent employee, hold an EPSRC, Royal Society or Royal Academy of Engineering fellowship aimed at later career stages, or hold fellowships under other schemes. The submitting research organisation must be a UK HEI, research council institute, UKRI-approved independent research organisation, eligible public sector research establishment, or a NHS body with research capacity. Holders of postdoctoral level fellowships are not eligible to apply. Applications should be submitted by the US partner.