National Nuclear User Facility Phase 2: Management Grant

维持英国的核能力和专业知识，需要对适当的设施和训练有素的劳动力进行长期承诺，以在监管环境中运作（并帮助塑造）。NNUF项目的第二阶段将支持安装和使用主要的新的国家核设施，重点关注当前投资未涵盖的研究挑战，在具有特殊核专业知识的大学中使用世界领先的放射性样品研究设备，并扩大国家实验室的设施，以增加新的国家分析放射性物质的能力。管理补助金的一个特别重点将是通过建立和操作一个访问计划来鼓励英国研究人员广泛使用这些新设施。对NNUF(2)设施进行的研究将支持工厂寿命延长计划、未来退役和废物储存需求以及新的建设战略，包括英国先进模块化反应堆计划。

Sustaining the UK's nuclear capability and expertise requires a long term commitment to both appropriate facilities and a trained workforce to operate in (and help shape) the regulatory environment. Phase 2 of the NNUF project will support the installation and use of major new national nuclear facilities focussed on research challenges not covered by current investment, world-leading equipment for research on radioactive samples in universities with special nuclear expertise and the expansion of facilities at national laboratories to add new national capabilities for analysing radioactive materials. A particular focus of the management grant will be to encourage wide usage of these new facilities by UK researchers by establishing and operating an access scheme. The research undertaken on NNUF(2) facilities will support plant life extension programmes, future decommissioning and waste storage needs and the new build strategies, including the UK Advanced Modular Reactor programme.