
The Power of the Special
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…

Trusting your robot colleagues part one: What is a robot?
The question may seem obvious, but how do you actually define a robot?

Repetition and Sustainability
Exploring entanglements and tensions that arise between ‘the repetitive’ and ‘the sustainable’ in nuclear discourse

A new research project in the making: ‘Mimesis in Action’
‘Mimesis in Action: Nuclear decommissioning as conceptual playground for societal and ecological future making’ is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council

Policy environment for small modular reactors
Visiting expert 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

Funding call for Applied Social Science
RWM to fund post-doctoral research on citizen participation in major infrastructure projects

Seminar series: Making the unknown knowable
Online seminar series exploring the ways in which the unknown is rendered knowable

The Beam mini-lecture series
The Beam invites you to visit a short series of mini-lectures exploring ‘Nuclear Science and Engineering as Social Practice’