EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Nuclear Energy Futures

EPSRC核能未来博士培训中心（CDT）旨在培养核能技术博士水平的新一代国际领导者。它由伦敦帝国理工学院（领先）、布里斯托尔大学、剑桥大学、开放大学和班戈大学组成。这些机构是英国在核能研究和教学方面的领先机构。CDTs的重点是核裂变，即通过原子分裂产生能量的方法，目前占世界电力的11%，占英国电力的20%，同时产生非常低的碳排放水平（与风能等可再生能源的水平相同）。CDT在专注于裂变能源技术的同时，也将有与聚变核能相关的博士项目，以及与核能相关的项目，如地震研究、机器人、数据分析、环境研究、政策和法律。CDT的主要重点是在北威尔士的欣克利角、萨默塞特和安格尔西的新核建设活动，EDF能源公司和地平线公司分别在那里建造新的裂变发电厂，将产生约3.2和2.7 GWe的核电（约占英国当前电力需求的13%）。CDT将提供与这些工厂和潜在的未来行业领导者相关的研究所需的技能，为当前工厂的核退役（由于在未来十年内下线），并领导英国在核废料处理和新反应堆技术方面的创新技术，如小型模块化反应堆（smr）。对新的有才能的博士水平的人的需求非常高，因为许多英国目前的技术专家是在20世纪70年代和80年代招募的，许多人接近退休，技能部门的研究表明，新的建设项目需要更多的人才。CDT将支持教学创新，并将制作一系列定制课程，这些课程可以通过在线媒体由CDT各领域最优秀的专家讲授，涵盖核燃料循环等领域；废物和退役；小型模块化反应堆；政策、经济和监管；热工液压和反应堆物理以及在该领域负责任的研究和创新方面的领先地位。CDT得到了广泛的核公司和利益相关者的支持。其中包括参与英国新建造过程的公司，如法国电力能源公司（EDF Energy）、日立通用电气（Hitachi-GE）、地平线（Horizon）和劳斯莱斯（Rolls-Royce），后者正在开发英国先进的模块化反应堆设计。来自美国、阿联酋、澳大利亚和法国等国家的国际核利益相关者将支持学生发展和CDT计划。CDT的学生将在核电的各个方面进行非常广泛的培训，对于这一部门来说，重要的是他们将参与媒体培训活动和公众外展活动，以使核电对公众、政府以及该学科以外的科学家和工程师更加开放。

The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Nuclear Energy Futures aims to train a new generation of international leaders, at PhD level, in nuclear energy technology. It is made up of Imperial College London (lead), Bristol University, Cambridge University, Open University and Bangor University. These institutions are some of the UK's leading institutions for research and teaching in nuclear power. The CDTs key focus is around nuclear fission i.e. that is the method of producing energy by splitting the atom, which currently accounts for 11% of the world's electricity and 20% of the UK's electricity, whilst producing very low levels of carbon emissions (at levels the same as renewable energy, such as wind). The CDT whilst focused on fission energy technologies will also have PhD projects related to fusion nuclear energy and projects needed or related to nuclear energy such as seismic studies, robotics, data analytics, environmental studies, policy and law. The CDT's major focus is related to the New Nuclear Build activities at Hinkley Point, Somerset and the Anglesey site in north Wales, where EDF Energy and Horizon, respectively, are building new fission power plants that will produce around 3.2 and 2.7 GWe of nuclear power (about 13% of the UK current electricity demand). The CDT will provide the skills needed for research related to these plants and potential future industry leaders, for nuclear decommissioning of current plants (due to come off-line in the next decade) and to lead the UK in new and innovative technologies for nuclear waste disposal and new reactor technologies such as small modular reactors (SMRs). The need for new talented PhD level people is very high as many of the UK's current technical experts were recruited in the 1970s and 80s and many are near retirement and skills sector studies have shown many more are needed for the new build projects. The CDT will champion teaching innovation and will produce a series of bespoke courses that can be delivered via on-line media by the very best experts in the field from across the CDT covering areas such as the nuclear fuel cycle; waste and decommissioning; small modular reactors; policy, economics and regulation; thermal hydraulics and reactor physics as well as leading on responsible research and innovation in the sector. The CDT is supported by a wide range of nuclear companies and stakeholders. These include those involved in the new build process in the UK such as EDF Energy, Hitachi-GE, Horizon and Rolls-Royce, the latter of which are developing a UK advanced modular reactor design. International nuclear stakeholders from countries such as the USA, UAE, Australia and France will support the student development and the CDT programme. The students in the CDT will cover a very broad training in all aspects of nuclear power and importantly for this sector will engage in both media training activities and public outreach to make nuclear power more open to the public, government and scientists and engineers outside of the discipline.