Nuclear Data Scientist Summer Placement 2025
Nuclear Data Scientist Summer Placement 2025
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Job Description
The Role
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy.
We offer excellent opportunities for motivated and enthusiastic undergraduate students studying at UK Universities to join our 812week summer placement scheme. The scheme is designed forstudents entering their penultimate or final year of studies with potential opportunities postgraduation.
Our scheme gives you a unique opportunity to contribute to the development of one of the most advanced sources of sustainable and clean energy. During your summer programme you will experience abroad range of diverse tasks work on real projects and gain invaluable experience within the fusion energy sector. UKAEA offers a nurturing and supportive community for you to gain some valuable work experience in a fascinating and rapidly evolving industry.
Overview
Modelling of tritium induced nuclear reactions
Most current fusion reaction designs plan to use tritium (a radioactive isotope of hydrogen) as a fuel. As this is rare in nature such devices will include tritium breeding technologies to ensure fuel selfsufficiency. To achieve this an understanding of all potential tritium loss mechanisms is needed. One possible but current poorly quantified loss mechanism is energetic tritium inducing secondary nuclear reactions which consume the tritium. Accurate cross sections for such reactions are needed to ensure complete fuel cycle modelling.
The project will cover reaction modelling of tritiuminduced nuclear reactions on targets relevant to breeder blankets (Li H He etc). The student will investigate current tritiumnucleus scattering potentials and optimise the parametrisation for the relevant targets as needed. These potentials can then be used in nuclear reaction codes to calculate cross sections for the nuclear reactions which result in tritium loss. These can be compared to existing experimental data alongside any preexisting predictions. With these the student could perform indicative calculations of rate of tritium loss via secondary nuclear reactions.
Qualifications :
Essential Requirements:
- Tobe considered you will need to be working towards a relevant degreeand will be required to have the right to work in the UK.
Additional Information :
A full list of our benefits can be found here
UKAEAs mission is clean energy for all and we welcome talented people from all backgrounds who want to help us achieve our mission. We are underrepresented from some groups and so want to encourage applications in particular from women in STEM people from Black British Caribbean and African backgrounds and from Pakistani and Bangladeshi British backgrounds. Our Executive team supported by our Head of Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and Wellbeing and our EDI Networks actively promote Inclusion and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.
UK Atomic Energy Authority is committed to being accessible. Please email if you have any questions or require help or adjustments to compete on a fair basis for example changes to the way we interview or share information.
Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
