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A consortium of UK nuclear specialists is to receive funding to research the technologies that could pave the way for a new generation of reactors.

A consortium of UK nuclear specialists is to receive funding to research the technologies that could pave the way for a new generation of reactors.

Details of the Keeping the Nuclear Option Open (KNOO) project emerged days after the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) unveiled its draft proposals for dealing with the UK’s existing network of ageing reactors.

KNOO, led by London’s Imperial College, will receive £6m from the EPSRC to research technologies that will be key to any new-build reactors, with a focus on areas including fuels, materials science and waste management.

Robin Grimes, principal investigator on the project and professor of material physics at Imperial College, said KNOO aims to engender a flexible approach to nuclear engineering. He is studying the development of materials that would be needed in new reactors, including those that could be used in sensors able to survive in such extreme conditions.

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