Maintain
Maintain and develop the key skills that will be required to help us carry out the mission over the coming decades
NDA PhD Bursary Call
Developing and Maintaining Skills and InnovationRelevant to Nuclear Decommissioning and Clean-up
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (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 the UK’s civil nuclear legacy. The NDA’s goals for the scheme are as follows:
Provide
Provide fundamental understanding of materials, technologies and processes across the NDA estate
Develop
Develop early stage technologies and techniques (TRL 1 – 3)
Encourage
Encourage two-way knowledge transfer between the academic and industrial communities working on nuclear decommissioning
The call is open to UK academic institutions for projects that will lead to the award of a PhD.
Up to £750,000 is available this year to fund research projects resulting in a PhD qualification. Universities and Research Institutes are invited to submit proposals up to a value of £155,000 per project under the thematic topics outlined on the Themes and Topics page.
For general enquiries relating to the NDA PhD bursary call, please contact nda_phd@uknnl.com.
If you are from a SATURN CDT university, please read this section before submitting your application.
What is not covered under the scheme is R&D focused on site-specific challenges, such as improving the efficiency of an existing plant or process or on training resource in a specific capability. Those research areas are the responsibility of the individual subsidiaries and Site License Companies (SLCs).