TM's George Archer talked to Dr Caroline Sudworth, Science and Higher Level Skills development manager at Cogent about the recent ‘Nuclear Island’ pilot project that took place over a week at Bircham Newton, Norfolk. The successes of the project demonstrate that expansion to other education institutions is at the least viable, and at the best potentially extremely beneficial not just for the UK’s nuclear industry but for the world’s.
GA: What actually went on over in Norfolk last week? CS: The nuclear island project is carried out as a scale down full construction of a nuclear core; Students are on an active construction site for a full week, with the nuclear island embedding additional nuclear behaviours including site security – we had some other…
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