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Visiting expert to explore policy environment for small modular reactors

Professor Jeremy Rayner will include the UK in an international comparison study

Nuclear Science and Engineering as Social Practice

The Beam launches interdisciplinary postgraduate module

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'Making the unknown knowable' explored the ways in which the unknown is rendered knowable by a wide range of actors in a multitude of contexts.

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Mini-lecture series

These three new mini-lectures explore 'Nuclear Science and Engineering as Social Practice' from Petra Tjitske Kalshoven, Penny Harvey and Başak Sarac̣-Lesavre.

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Anglers in Whitehaven — The nuclear family – a reflection on core concepts

Core concepts of social life are reinvented or reinforced during Covid-19.

Petra reflects on the workshops held to invigorate the discussion of possible end-states for the Sellafield site by the year 2140.

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Latest updates

Visiting expert to explore policy environment for small modular reactors

Nuclear Science and Engineering as Social Practice