UK Nuclear Industry First Wireless Applications

Precision engineering for optical applications: knowledge transfer into UK industry

Learning difficulties in children born to male UK nuclear industry employees; analysis from the nuclear industry family study.

There has been much debate about paternal pre-conceptual exposure to low level ionising radiation and possible increased risk of ill health among the children subsequently conceived. The prevalence of reported learning difficulties was examined in over 16000 children born to UK nuclear industry workers, using fathers' information on exposure from the workers' individual employment and dosimetry...

Hybrid Phantom Applications to Nuclear Medicine

Annually, many people are irradiated for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Assessment of radiation dose and its related risks to patients are important issues in radiation protection dosimetry. The complex mathematical calculations of the absorbed and effective doses are now done with computers. The calculations are performed with the help of anthropomorphic computational models of human bod...

UK atmospheric nuclear weapons tests

Exposure to radiation in all its forms is part of being alive. Ionising radiation is taken to mean radiation of high-enough energy to displace electrons from atoms and includes cosmic rays, gamma rays, X-rays, alpha and beta radiation. The average level of exposure to natural background radiation varies throughout the world dependent mainly on the geology of the underlying earth. In the UK it i...

Superconducting Rf Cavity Development with Uk Industry

As part of a STFC Industrial Programme Support Scheme (PIPSS) grant Daresbury Laboratory and Shakespeare Engineering Ltd have fabricated, processed and tested a single cell 1.3 GHz superconducting RF cavity, in collaboration with Jefferson Laboratory. The overall aim of the project through a knowledge exchange programme was to develop the capability of UK industry to fabricate and process a sin...