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Our team of experts span a range of ages and disciplines, and work collaboratively within the University, with academics from other universities and with industry and government.

Meet our core academic and Professional Services team below. You can find our Dalton Cumbrian Facility team here . 

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Adrian Bull MBE

Associate Director and BNFL Chair in Nuclear Energy and Society – Adrian joined the University in 2021, following 40 years in the UK nuclear industry with BNFL, Westinghouse and the National Nuclear Laboratory. His Dalton activities focus on Government policy around nuclear and energy, and on stakeholder and community engagement on nuclear issues.

William Bodel

Dalton Fellow in Nuclear Energy Policy – Will’s doctoral research into nuclear engineering materials focused on nuclear graphite and its behaviour under reactor conditions. He subsequently worked on material fracture and life-extension of the UK’s AGR fleet. His current research area is energy policy, focusing on the role nuclear energy can play in the future of the UK.

Gregg Butler

Head of Strategic Assessment – Gregg has 60 years’ experience in most aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle: R&D, planning, commercial, plant, site and company operations and management, director and advisory committee roles. He has published extensively on nuclear topics, and is currently concentrating on Nuclear Energy’s role in Net Zero.

Jacqui Grant

Operations Manager – Jacqui is Operations Manager for the Dalton Nuclear Institute with a primary role to support delivery of activities across the Manchester campus.

Patrick Hackett

Nuclear Waste Services Research Support Office (RSO) Programme Manager – Patrick is responsible for the delivery of the RSO’s activities, including the administration of its annual PhD bursary call, the development of research communities around 10 disciplines and the RSO annual conference.

Scott Heath

Associate Director, Professor of Nuclear Chemistry - Scott’s current research involves development of analytical techniques for trace radioactive nuclides, and control of radioactive contaminants in engineered environments. He is Director of the GREEN Centre for Doctoral Training in Nuclear Fission, Associate Dean for Post Graduate Researcher Development and member of the Government Nuclear Skills Task Force.

Zara Hodgson

Director and Professor of Nuclear Engineering – Zara has a broad background in nuclear R&D, through the Nuclear Innovation & Research Office and the National Nuclear Laboratory, ranging from spent fuel management to nuclear power systems for space exploration. She joined the Institute in 2024 from the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero where she led on nuclear fuel policy.

Robert Jones

Head of Operations - Robert is Head of Operations for the Dalton Nuclear Institute. He is based at the Dalton Cumbrian Facility (DCF), the University’s centre for radiation science. Robert completed his PhD at DCF in 2016 and has worked in various roles within the nuclear industry.

Engagement and Communications Manager – Rachel is responsible for the Dalton Nuclear Institute’s engagement and communications activity, and supporting the Dalton Community (based across The University of Manchester) and The Beam nuclear and social research network. She has been a part of the Institute since 2015.

Francis Livens

Professor of Radiochemistry – With more than 35 years’ research experience across the fuel cycle, Francis has acted as advisor to the nuclear sector both in the UK and overseas. Francis is Chair of the Nuclear Innovation & Research Advisory Board and a Non Executive Director of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (awarded the 2021 Becquerel Medal) and Member of the Institute of Strategic Studies.

Juan Matthews

Visiting Professor in Nuclear Energy Technology - Starting as a theoretical physicist Juan carried out and managed research on nuclear safety and advanced reactor systems at Harwell. He later set up and managed activities across Asia for AEA Technology, before working on international business and innovation in the nuclear and energy sectors, mainly for Government.

Katherine Morris

Associate Director and BNFL Chair of Environmental Radioactivity - Kath brings expertise in the speciation and fate of radionuclides in engineered and natural environments with over 20 years’ experience. She is Director of the Nuclear Waste Services Research Support Office, based at The University of Manchester.

Lisa O’Neil

PA to Dalton Nuclear Institute Directors and Project Support to James Schofield Nuclear Lab Control Manager.

Samantha Roberts

Administrator – Sam is an experienced administrator who has worked in the Dalton Nuclear Institute since 2012, providing day-to-day support to the team and to Dalton-led events. She has worked on several nuclear projects including NNUMAN, EPSRC Compositional and Structural Evolution of Plutonium Dioxide, and the NWS Research Support Office

Alice Seaman

Outreach and Communications Assistant Undergraduate Placement – Alice is taking a year out of her BA Geography at The University of Manchester to undertake a placement with the Dalton Nuclear Institute.

Clint Sharrad

Deputy Director, Professor of Nuclear Engineering – Clint has more than 20 years’ experience in translating the understanding of radionuclide behaviour in various systems to support developing and optimising engineered processes across the entire nuclear fuel cycle. He is the lead for the Nuclear Engineering, Science and Technology (NEST) facility and the Molten Salts in Nuclear Technology Laboratory National Nuclear User Facility.

Richard Taylor

Associate Director and BNFL Chair in Nuclear Energy Systems - Richard was previously the Chief Engineer of the UK’s National Nuclear Laboratory. Richard has over 30 years of experience within the UK nuclear industry. He is a professional engineer with a background in the design, construction and commissioning of nuclear facilities. Richard is a co-founder of The Beam nuclear and social research network.

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The Office of Spent Fuel and High-Level Waste Disposition and its three sub-program offices: the Office of Disposal R&D, the Office of Storage & Transportation, and the Office of Consent-Based Siting, are developing an Integrated Waste Management system for storage, transportation, and disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. Learn more .

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For more information on technical work to prepare for storage, transportation, and eventual disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste, check out the CURIE: Resource Portal for DOE Nuclear Waste Management Information .

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Nuclear Waste Services brings together the UK’s leading nuclear waste management capabilities

Introducing Nuclear Waste Services

Nuclear Waste Services brings together the UK’s leading nuclear waste management capabilities.

We have integrated the expertise of Low Level Waste Repository (LLWR), Radioactive Waste Management (RWM), and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) group’s Integrated Waste Management Programme (IWMP). This creates an organisation focused on the management of the UK’s nuclear waste, safely and securely for generations to come.

We are part of the NDA group , which is undertaking the biggest clean-up project in Europe over many decades. Nuclear Waste Services is integral to this environmental clean-up mission, as we work to provide permanent answers to our country’s nuclear waste. The UK has been producing and managing radioactive waste on an industrial scale since the 1940s. However, today’s approach and capabilities for waste management need to adapt to keep pace with NDA’s decommissioning ambitions. This includes its commitment to recycle 50% of waste from decommissioning and reduce secondary wastes by around 70% by 2030.

Coming together as a single business provides an integrated way of tackling waste of the past, while offering more sustainable and efficient services to waste producers, now and in the future.

We want Nuclear Waste Services to be a great place to work where everybody is action orientated, ambitious, collaborative and acts with integrity. It will combine the talent of our people and give them an environment in which to thrive. Not only will this be good for our people, but also allow Nuclear Waste Services to grow its capability even further. We will be driven by doing the right thing for our people, customers, partners, and the communities where we operate to ensure all our operations are safe and secure.

Our key commitments

• We will be a safe and responsible business
• We will be customer and community focused
• We will develop capabilities

We are specialists in the treatment and disposal of nuclear waste. Our goal is to ensure that waste is managed in a way that protects people and the environment, now and in the future.

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We are the ‘one-stop shop’ for nuclear waste management and disposal for the UK.

Nuclear Waste Services will build on work delivered over many decades, while adding more essential services for customers in the nuclear energy, defence, industrial, medical, and research sectors.

We’ll draw on years of innovation by LLWR, where a full range of specialist skills and solutions – waste characterisation, treatment, recycling, volume reduction, packaging, and disposal – have been developed.

This has optimised the lifetime of the repository. Waste is only disposed directly at the repository site if it cannot be diverted for alternative treatment and disposal.

Developing a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) for the permanent disposal of higher activity radioactive wastes is a strategic imperative, and represents one of the UK’s largest environmental and infrastructure programmes.

The UK search for a suitable site is, uniquely, based on consent from a willing community and includes a right to withdraw from the process right up until a test of public support.

One of our commitments is to work with waste producers to overcome a range of challenges and to capitalise on new opportunities. We will do this by thinking differently about waste and enabling a flexible approach to long-term waste management.

The IWMP has been charged with this work, creating, and developing new approaches and defining the appropriate implementation routes. This will be crucial for delivering more efficiency, greater speed and lower costs.

Nuclear Waste Services will continue to put the voice of our people, customers, communities, and supply chain at the heart of everything we do.

Major Capital Programmes (Project developer)

Managing the delivery of large-scale capital projects, with an initial focus on a GDF. This involves working with communities to find a suitable site and a willing community to host the GDF.

Waste Operations (Nuclear site license operator)

Responsible for managing and operating sites, like the repository, that fall within the remit of Nuclear Waste Services. The focus is on the safe, compliant, and effective management of waste management infrastructure.

Waste Services (Service provider)

Working with customers to provide waste management services and solutions to address their challenges. As well as providing advice and expertise, we manage contracts and relationships across the waste cycle.

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Developing new waste management capability and opportunities to work group-wide as part of a broader integration programme to underpin the NDA’s and nation’s strategy of a more joined-up approach to waste management.

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Supporting functions include commercial, communications and stakeholder relations, environmental, health, safety, security and quality (EHSSQ), finance, human resources and legal. These ensure high standards are maintained, and the business has the right resources and processes to deliver effectively and efficiently.

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RWM launches its Research Support Office

RWM has established a Research Support Office (RSO) to build a long-term collaborative and strategic relationship with UK universities.  The RSO has a Core team, hosted at the Dalton Nuclear Institute, composed of RWM and representatives from The University of Manchester and The University of Sheffield.  Spokes reach out from this ‘Hub’, accessing other universities and academic institutions across the following nine key discipline areas:

• Environmental sciences
• Radiochemistry
• Geosciences
• Materials science
• Engineering and Advanced manufacturing
• Applied mathematics
• Social science
• Public Communication

In each discipline area an academic lead is paired with RWM subject matter experts to identify and address the research priorities required to underpin delivery of a geological disposal facility (GDF) for the UK.

On 16-18 September the RSO held its first event with the academic community. Spanning three mornings, this virtual event provided the first opportunity to present the aims and objectives of the RSO to the wider academic community, provide an update on the GDF programme which drives our research needs, and share details on funding opportunities and practicalities. The launch event had many highlights, including a guest talk by Dr Allan Hedin, SKB’s Manager of Safety Assessments on the interplay between research and the safety case in the Swedish licensing process. International collaboration is of major importance to the success of the UK programme and it was great to share the story of one of our sister organisations with a more advanced programme, reinforcing that geological disposal is internationally recognised as the best approach.

Another highlight was our interactive workshop on the final morning, led by Simon Norris: exploiting the online technology and ‘breakout rooms’ to engage with 55 expert researchers to help RWM and the RSO develop a funding call in the area of gas generation, migration and reactivity – an important topic for the GDF safety case.  The level of engagement in this workshop demonstrated the RSO’s partnership approach and gave a true sense of collaboration between RWM and the academic community.

Over the course of the event the RSO received hugely constructive and positive questions and comments from the participants which will help develop the RSO as we go forward.  In total we welcomed 13 UK Universities, numerous research and supply chain organisations, international WMOs, and regulators; totalling over 130 participants across the 3 days.

Full details of the RSO can be found on the website: www.research-support-office-gdf.ac.uk where all presentations from the workshop are now available and where you can register to receive updates on progress, future events and funding opportunities.

For further information contact Lucy Bailey , Head of Research Support Office, RWM

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A look inside an operator station at the MCC Complex. Staff supervise spent nuclear fuel assemblies automatically being reloaded from the wet storage facility to the dry storage facility. (Photo: MCC-press)

A one-stop-shop for spent fuel management is one way to describe Russia’s Mining and Chemical Complex (MCC) near Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. The complex is designed to handle spent fuel at its different stages, all at one site. In many countries, these activities — involving fuel that is no longer useful but still very radioactive — are performed at separate facilities that are, in some cases, up to hundreds of kilometers apart. By taking an integrated approach, Russia’s national strategy for spent fuel management aims to improve efficiency, cut costs and optimize safety and security.

“Russia’s nuclear power industry is continuing to develop and increase its contribution to the country’s overall energy mix. So, we need to make sure that the management of spent nuclear fuel is reliable, sustainable, safe and secure,” said Anzhelika Khaperskaya, a senior manager in the Spent Nuclear Fuel Management Project Office of Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation (Rosatom), and one of the designers of the integrated approach. “The integrated complex will help us cut down on the need to transport nuclear materials or waste and allow us to focus safety and security measures in one place, which is also better from an economic point of view.”

About 4000 kilometers east of Moscow, in central Siberia, the repurposing of the MCC under this integrated approach began in 2017. The site’s existing personnel and facilities provided the necessary infrastructure to jumpstart the integration.

Previously, Russia had primarily stored its spent fuel and partly processed this fuel at the RT-1 plant at the Mayak Production Association near Ekaterinburg, about 1600 kilometers east of Moscow, in western Siberia.

Unlike the RT-1 plant, which mainly handles reprocessing and has a small pilot fabrication facility, the MCC already has wet and dry spent fuel storage, as well as facilities for reprocessing and fabrication of new fuels for light water and fast reactors, and will eventually have an underground research laboratory for high-level waste disposal. The complex is expected to be fully integrated and operational by 2035.

The integrated complex will improve the efficiency and competitiveness of the Russian nuclear industry and make nuclear energy even safer and more environmentally friendly. Petr Gavrilov, Director General, Mining and Chemical Complex (MCC), Russia

Simplifying the process

Safety and security measures need to be taken at every step of the management process to protect people and the environment and to minimize the risk of attacks, thefts or misuse of nuclear material.

For example, spent fuel is typically transported several times, starting from where it was used, such as at a nuclear power plant, and then between facilities at different sites for storage, reprocessing, fabrication or disposal. The movement of nuclear material requires additional safety and security measures.

“Throughout the integrated strategy, we have taken steps to eliminate safety and security risks in order to protect people and the environment. One such step has been to bring several management processes, namely wet and dry storing, reprocessing and new fuel fabrication into one MCC site to minimize the transport of nuclear materials,” said Petr Gavrilov, Director General of MCC, part of Rosatom.

Finding effective ways to reduce the number of processes was a key step in setting up the new approach. Experts from the MCC, leading industry institutions and the Russian Academy of Sciences worked together to select, test and, in some cases, develop new technologies, equipment and methods that adhere to IAEA safety standards and security guidance and can solve complex scientific and technical challenges.

For instance, the MCC will handle the reprocessing of a new type of uranium– plutonium fuel called REMIX. This fuel has been developed as part of the integrated approach to minimizing spent fuel storage times and reducing the amount of radioactive waste for disposal. Unlike other types of nuclear fuels for light water reactors, REMIX can be recycled at today’s nuclear power plants as many as seven times, which means it can provide enough nuclear fuel to cover the entire lifespan of a light water reactor at a power plant.

“We have been developing new and innovative reprocessing, recycling and partitioning technologies, as well as infrastructure related to the nuclear fuel cycle. We are essentially trying to shrink the impact of spent fuel management and support sustainable development in the future by recycling uranium and plutonium multiple times for thermal and fast reactors and reducing the radiotoxicity of radioactive waste,” Khaperskaya said.

National strategies

In 2018, nuclear power accounted for 18.4% of the energy production in Russia. Every year, the country produces around 700 tonnes of spent nuclear fuel from its nuclear power plants, research reactors and submarines. With the country’s plans to expand its nuclear industry, including the large-scale implementation of fast reactors, the MCC’s integrated system is expected to help minimize the impact of that increase.

“The safe handling of spent nuclear fuel is a strategic direction of nuclear power development in Russia. It is necessary to provide safe and cost-effective storage of both lasting and newly-generated spent nuclear fuel for nuclear power needs,” Gavrilov said. “The integrated complex will improve the efficiency and competitiveness of the Russian nuclear industry and make nuclear energy even safer and more environmentally friendly.”

Russia’s integrated approach is just one example of how a country can manage its spent nuclear fuel. All countries with nuclear power programmes have national spent fuel management policies and strategies.

A national strategy is tailored to the size and needs of a country’s nuclear programme, ensuring it fits into the country’s overall energy plan. While each strategy is different, most address the technical, political, socioeconomic, and safety and security aspects of the different steps of spent fuel management, ensuring adherence to IAEA safety standards and security guidance.

Although countries are responsible for the safe and secure management of their spent nuclear fuel, the IAEA provides technical guidance and assists countries in exchanging information to develop well-informed strategies. It also provides expertise and training support for implementing these strategies. As spent nuclear fuel is a form of nuclear material, IAEA safeguards also play a key role in ensuring spent fuel is not misused or diverted from peaceful uses.

This article was featured in the June 2019 Bulletin edition on  Management of Spent Fuel from Nuclear Power Reactors .

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• Spent fuel management options
• Management of Spent Fuel from Nuclear Power Reactors, IAEA Bulletin (Vol. 60/2, June 2019)
• Behaviour of Spent Power Reactor Fuel during Storage
• Storing Spent Fuel until Transport to Reprocessing or Disposal
• Status and Trends in Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste Management
• Management of Spent Fuel from Nuclear Power Reactors
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• Underground Research Facilities Network
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