Manufacture & Materials for Fission & Fusion Net-zero 2025 Programme Timetable

Updated: 11 November 2025 - 12:31

         

 

 

Start Time End time 12 November 2025
Millennium Point, Birmingham
Location: Curzon Suite
 
       
08:00 08:50  
Registration 
 
 
         
08:50 09:00  
Welcome Address
Toby Lant, Conference Chair

 
 
         
09:00 09:20  
Daniel Mathers, NIRO
Overview of UK R+D for Fission

 
 
         
09:20 09:40  
Eleanor Crossley, ONR
Regulatory Challenges

 
 
         
09:40 10:00  
Edward Williamson, Rolls-Royce SMR 
Materials challenges with SMRs

 
 
         
10:00 10:20  
Prof Chris Truman, University of Bristol
Reflections on Peter Flewitt’s career in the nuclear Industry

 
 
         
10:20 10:45  
Networking Break
Atrium
 
 
         
10:45 11:05  
Martin Marples, Arabelle Solutions
Materials challenges outside the nuclear island – Steam Turbines 

 
 
         
11:05 11:25  
Michael Martin, Rolls-Royce
Probabilistic assessments for Light Water Reactors

 
 
         
11:25 11:45  
Jonathan Duff, University of Manchester, The Henry Royce Institute
Stress Corrosion Cracking of Additively Manufactured stainless steel and nickel alloys used for Light Water Reactors.
 
 
         
11:45 12:05  
Nassia Tzelepi, UKNNL/ JAEA 
Advanced Modular Reactor system NNL/JAEA
 
 
         
12:05 12:25  
Mike Spindler, EDF
Are Current High Temperature Design Codes Adequate for new High Temperature Gas Reactors?
 
 
         
12:25 12:45  
Luke Howard, University of Birmingham 
Development of novel alloys, including silicide-strengthened and ferritic superalloys for nuclear applications

 
 
         
12:45 13:30  
Networking Lunch
Atrium
 
 
         
13:30 13:50  
Amy Gandy, UKAEA
A fusion overview of the material challenges to achieve commercial plant

 
 
         
13:50 14:10  
Moataz Attallah, Loughborough University
Challenges of fabrication of tungsten for nuclear fusion components

 
 
         
14:10 14:30  
Sam Holdsworth, TWI
Development of copper CoreFlow® friction stir channelling for fusion reactor thermal management

 
 
         
14:30 14:50  
Liberato Volpe, UKAEA & Lucideon
Oxidation and environmentally-assisted cracking behaviour of Eurofer-97 under water-cooled breeder blanket conditions

 
 
         
14:50 15:10  
Sophie Jones, Amentum
Corrosion of structural materials in liquid lithium

 
 
         
15:10 15:20  
Closing Address
Toby Lant, Conference Chair

 
 
         
15:50 16:00  
Close of Satellite Conference & Networking Coffee
Atrium