Join Game Changers for ice-cream and innovation at the Rosehill Theatre in Whitehaven on Wednesday, 11th May. Create new connections and learn about cutting edge technology, as well as complex challenges within nuclear. The event will include demos and exhibitions, lightning talks and bookable meeting slots.

Game Changers is an innovation programme which finds solutions for complex nuclear industry challenges. They work with organisations of all sizes, across all sectors, to identify and develop the most promising technologies.

The day has been designed to give attendees ample opportunity to make new connections as you explore the stands, engage with technology demos, hear about current challenges within nuclear and also hear from early-career innovators about the current projects they’re working on.

The event is free to attend. The agenda for the day is:

9.15am Welcome: Innovation at Sellafield and Nuclear Grand Challenges

• Robin Ibbotson, Chief Technology Officer, Sellafield Ltd
• Katherine Eilbeck, Head of R&D, Sellafield Ltd
• Sara Huntingdon, Head of Innovation, NDA

10am-12noon Technology Demonstrations

• Clifton photonics – A miniature fibre-optic Raman probe for POCO applications.
• Fraunhofer UK Centre for Applied Photonics – From hydrogen sensing to condition monitoring, addressing nuclear challenges with photonics.
• Unitive Design – A backscatter X-ray profilometer, for mapping out the contents of pipes and vessels.
• Resolute Energy – Expanding polymers which can be deployed into small cracks and pore spaces to block leak pathways.

Lightning Talks: Quick fire talks by early-career innovators from a range of organisations sharing work-in-progress and recent successes and learning

1pm Cross-sector Thinking

• Jamie Gallagher, Science Communicator and Facilitator: Catching up on the day so far
• John Maddison, iSH Programme Director: How iSH makes your ideas work
• Angela MacOscar, Head of Innovation, Northumbrian Water: Identifying common challenges and opportunities between water and nuclear

1.45-3.30pm Talks and Technology Demonstrations

• University of Strathclyde Hyperspectral Imaging and Signal, image & video processing.
• University of Manchester Heterogeneous solvent scrubbing for cleaning up spent solvents in spent nuclear fuel recycle.
• GHD Assessment of solute transport within groundwater at the Sellafield site using mass flux measurements.
• Net Zero Technology Centre Claxton and Aberdeen University have developed a laser cutting tool for use underwater providing the energy sector with high performance, accurate cutting solution.

Lightening Talks – Quick fire talks by early-career innovators from a range of organisations sharing work-in-progress and recent successes and learning.

3.45pm close

Find out more and register here.