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Special Nuclear Materials - those fissile isotopes from which spring all the promise and the peril in the ‘nuclear’

Trusting your robot colleagues part two: Building trust

Efficiency and reliability are factors...but building trust requires more than that...

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As a collaborative, cross-disciplinary research network, the Beam will foster a new engagement between the nuclear sciences and social research.

Research projects

We are always seeking out new projects and collaborators in both academia and industry, and share the relevant activities of other groups as well as our own.

Special Nuclear Materials - those fissile isotopes from which spring all the promise and the peril in the ‘nuclear’

Efficiency and reliability are factors...but building trust requires more than that...

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See more from The Beam team, as well as posts from guest authors, sharing ideas and research exploring the social elements of nuclear.

Meet the team

Hosted by The University of Manchester’s Dalton Nuclear Institute, The Beam is managed by a cross-disciplinary team based across the University.

Online seminars

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

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