ROYCE Summer Placement Scheme 2025
ROYCE Summer Placement Scheme 2025
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Job Description
The Role
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy.
We offer excellent opportunities for motivated and enthusiastic undergraduate students studying at UK Universities to join our 812week summer placement scheme. The scheme is designed forstudents entering their penultimate or final year of studies with potential opportunities postgraduation.
Our scheme gives you a unique opportunity to contribute to the development of one of the most advanced sources of sustainable and clean energy. During your summer programme you will experience abroad range of diverse tasks work on real projects and gain invaluable experience within the fusion energy sector. UKAEA offers a nurturing and supportive community for you to gain some valuable work experience in a fascinating and rapidly evolving industry.
Overview
Project title: Characterisation of near net shape manufactured complex ODS steels for fusion energy
The operating temperatures and component lifetime for the future tritium breeder blankets of fusion reactors will be limited by the performance of the current generation of structural steels.
Advanced powder metallurgy based ODS steels can enable higher operating temperatures that will improve reactors efficiency. ODS steels have high number density of thermally stable yttria based oxide particles which inhibit dislocation motion for improved high temperature strength and creep and can significantly improve irradiation damage resistance by trapping transmutant helium and acting as free surfaces for recombination of neutron irradiation induced defects.
UKAEA Materials Division in collaboration with industrial partners will produce fusion grade ODS powder that will be followed by complex shape hot isostatic pressing to receive near net shape ODS steel (Royce ICP grant). By summer 2025 the UKAEA will receive samples for indepth investigations. This will be an important step for the UKAEA ODS R&D programme.
Key objectives of this summer placement will be: i) establish optimal sample preparation routine for highquality microscopy hardness testing and density measurements of the alloys and preform the analyses ii) contribute and learn form to the ongoing UKAEA advanced craterisation of the ODS steels ion irradiations and other experimental projects run by the Materials Division.
Qualifications :
- Tobe considered you will need to be working towards a relevant degreeand will be required to have the right to work in the UK.
Additional Information :
A full list of our benefits can be found here mission is clean energy for all and we welcome talented people from all backgrounds who want to help us achieve our mission. We are underrepresented from some groups and so want to encourage applications in particular from women in STEM people from Black British Caribbean and African backgrounds and from Pakistani and Bangladeshi British backgrounds. Our Executive team supported by our Head of Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and Wellbeing and our EDI Networks actively promote Inclusion and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.
UK Atomic Energy Authority is committed to being accessible. Please email if you have any questions or require help or adjustments to compete on a fair basis for example changes to the way we interview or share information.
Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
