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Nuclear science to benefit society Discover more Strategic Plan Our Strategic Plan sets out how NNL, the UK’s national laboratory for nuclear fission, is benefiting society through nuclear science. Find…

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Royal Honour for Former NNL Chief Scientist Graham Fairhall

NNL’s former Chief Scientist, Professor Graham Fairhall, was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list published on 10 June 2016. The award is “For services to UK Nuclear…

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NNL Welcomes Funding for National Nuclear Research Programme

The National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) welcomes today’s announcement of the first round of funding for the UK’s national programme of nuclear research and innovation. This announcement represents the first phase…

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Innovate Issue 10

The latest edition of Innovate is now available to download for free. The magazine has been completely redesigned and features a range of articles including coverage of Government Minister Andrea…

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NDA PhD Bursary Call 2017: Developing and Maintaining Skills and Innovation Relevant to Nuclear Decommissioning and Clean-up

> Reminder of the close of the NDA PhD bursary competition for 2017. Proposals must be submitted online at https://ndaphdbursaryapplications.co.uk/ by 15:00 on the Friday 21st October 2016 Interested parties…

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Nuclear Laboratories in Canada and the UK sign MOU

Professor Paul Howarth, Managing Director, NNL and CNL Vice-President, Research and Development, Tom Blejwas sign the Memorandum of Understanding for Nuclear Science and Technology Capabilities Exploitation in the Marketplace.

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NNL Hosts CEA, key French R&D and innovation player, at Sellafield

NNL’s Charles Potter and Tim Tinsley with the CEA CFS group outside Central Laboratory France and the United Kingdom pledged to respond to the present and future energy challenges through…

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Focus Workshop on ‘Bridging-Time Scale Techniques and their Applications in Atomistic Computational Science’

The “time-scale problem” associated with Molecular Dynamics becomes a serious issue when investigating processes that occur on long time-scales, such as the diffusion and annihilation of defects after a cascade…

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NNL Chief Scientist Opens New High Temperature Facility

> NNL Chief Scientist, Professor Andrew Sherry and Amec Foster Wheeler’s Vice President for Consultancy, Greg Willetts, conducted the opening of a new £2M High Temperature Facility in Warrington. The…

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Up to £500,000 available for research projects

The NDA is requesting applications to its bursary scheme, to support the NDA mission to deliver safe, sustainable and publicly acceptable solutions to the challenge of decommissioning and clean-up of…

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