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  • An Investigation into the Potential for the Development of a Tritium Production Industry to service Fusion Power Plants for Electricity and Industrial Heat Production (materials strand)

    Posted June 27, 2022

    Supervisors: Professor Laurence G Williams OBE FREng (Bangor University), Dr Simon Middleburgh (Bangor University), Dr Mark Gilbert (UKAEA, Culham) & Dr Lee Packer (UKAEA, Culham). The current view of the...

  • The effect of hydrogen isotopes and helium on tritium diffusion and extraction from candidate fusion breeder blanket ceramics. (materials strand project)

    Posted June 7, 2022

    Application deadline – Tuesday 5th July 2022. Supervisor/s: Amy Gandy (University of Sheffield), Rebecca Boston (University of Sheffield), Slava Kuksenko (UKAEA), Anthony Hollingsworth (UKAEA) & Mohamad Abdallah (UKAEA – STEP)....

  • Probing the plasma pressure limit in tokamaks (plasma strand project)

    Posted January 28, 2022

    Supervisors: Professor Kieran Gibson (University of York) and Professor Howard Wilson (University of York) The fusion power output of a tokamak reactor, such as the experimental ITER facility or future...

  • Exploiting high repetition rate experiments in dynamic high-pressure physics (plasma strand project)

    Posted January 28, 2022

    Supervisor/s: Andy Higginbotham (University of York) Dynamically driven high-pressure experiments allow us to reach pressure and temperature regimes inaccessible to traditional static compression platforms.  These dynamic approaches allow us to...

  • Hot, dense matter creation via ultra-intense laser interaction with novel, structured targets (plasma strand project)

    Posted January 10, 2022

    Supervisor: Kate Lancaster (University of York). The ability to heat high-density mid- to high-Z materials to temperatures of 100’s eV to a few KeV is critical for studies of warm/...

  • Exploring spectral energy transfer in non-linear gyrokinetic simulations and experiment (plasma strand project)

    Posted January 10, 2022

    Supervisors: Dr David Dickinson (University of York) & Dr István Cziegler (University of York). Plasma turbulence acts to degrade the confinement of particles and energy in magnetic confinement devices, such...

  • Coupling Particle In Cell with High-Order Finite Elements and Uncertainty Quantification (plasma strand project)

    Posted January 10, 2022

    Supervisors: Peter Hill (University of York), David Dickinson (University of York) & James Cook (UKAEA). The edge region of tokamak devices is a crucial part of the plasma, as it...

  • Understanding the ablation of plasma facing components in Tokamak devices using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (plasma strand)

    Posted December 13, 2021

    Supervisor/s – Dr Steven Lind, Dr Ben Rogers and Dr Jack King (University of Manchester) Divertor components in Tokamak devices are subjected to significant thermal loads, both in steady operation...

  • Turbulence diagnosis using the Synthetic Aperture Microwave Imager (SAMI) (Plasma strand project)

    Posted December 7, 2021

    Supervisor/s – Roddy Vann and David Dickinson (University of York) Turbulence is the chaotic motion of fluids observed across nature – and particularly in tokamak plasmas. Indeed, turbulence is the...

  • Microwave heating & current drive on the MAST Upgrade Tokamak (plasma strand project)

    Posted December 7, 2021

    Supervisor/s – Roddy Vann (University of York). Simon Freethy (UKAEA) and Alf Köhn (University of Stuttgart). Microwaves are the part of the electromagnetic spectrum with wavelengths approximately ranging from a...

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