Monthly Archives: April 2009

Charitable Issues: Rhian Jones

April 22, 2009 – 10:43 am

My time in Cumbria was complemented by the delivery of a research project on behalf of the Cumbria Community Foundation.
Along with two other graduates I canvassed the Foundations members regarding their views on a number of charitable issues in order to improve the working of the Foundation.
In addition we went out into the community to [...]

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Strategically Placed: Matt Dodds

April 22, 2009 – 9:00 am

I’m currently on my first nucleargraduate secondment based at the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in Cumbria.
I work in the Strategy department and have helped to develop the NDA’s Strategy Management System (SMS).
I produce guidance documents for the various Strategic Authorities. These help our partners at the nuclear sites to develop their topic strategies. I’ve also helped [...]

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Just starting to twitter

April 21, 2009 – 10:36 am

One aspect of my work in schools has been working with a science club at Patchway Community Comprehensive. We have been trying to build a miniature house that can be powered by renewable energy.
Along with the miniature house, we have been trying to power an incubator for hatching bird eggs and a fish tank. Unfortunately, due [...]

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Baseline: Rhian Jones

April 21, 2009 – 10:30 am

My time with Low Activity Waste team at the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority provided me with a great starting point to the programme.
I was exposed to a wide range of internal business processes, stakeholder engagement as well as technical work regarding the UK management of Low Activity Waste.
Apart from experience gained from the project, I supported the [...]

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Have your say: Owain Lewis

April 19, 2009 – 3:43 pm

For my first secondment I was part of the Civil, Structural and Architectural team at Sellafield LTD.
Here I was involved with site surveys, design work, AutoCAD drawings and liaising with clients and other members of the site team.
I offered support to smaller projects, which gave me a larger role with more responsibility and it also [...]

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Graduates South West on top of it at Yeo Moor

April 19, 2009 – 10:58 am

Hi Susie,
I am just writing you and email to keep you up to date with our Science Ambassador progress in the South West.  Last week Rhian and I met with Roland Lovatt, the head master of Yeo Moor primary school.  Following a tour of the school we discussed how our involvement could coordinate with Roland’s [...]

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Power walk in London

April 17, 2009 – 5:48 pm

The graduates (Cohort One in November 09 and Cohort Two in October 09) spent a day in London investigating different types of power including politics, demonstrations, the law, black culture and history; very appropriate as the USA was just electing their first black president. The guide was Jamaican barrister and poet David Neita and [...]

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Didcot Science: Ste Mahay

April 13, 2009 – 4:36 pm

As part of footprints, myself, Susan Elder and James Forde were working with an organisation called Didcot First that aimed to positively promote the town of Didcot.
One of their long term aims, due to there being many science centres in the local vicinity, was to posit Didcot as a science town. My project was [...]

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Transport: Ste Mahay

April 11, 2009 – 4:24 pm

The secondment was working within the Transport Safety Team. I was producing an improved model for estimating a maximum annual radiation dose rates to HGV drivers, who in the future may transport highly radioactive waste. This work will help work out whether this method of transport, driving materials from a nuclear site to a proposed [...]

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Grappling with graphite: Michael Shapiro

April 10, 2009 – 4:23 pm

I have been working within the Waste and Nuclear Materials Team on the strategy for disposing the graphite from old nuclear reactors. This material has been extensively used as a moderator within gas cooled reactors. In basic terms, it increased the efficiency of the reaction by slowing down the ‘fast neutrons’.
 
Currently the plan is to [...]

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