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 8-12-week summer placement scheme. The scheme is designed for students entering their penultimate or final year of studies, with potential opportunities post-graduation.
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 a broad 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: Thermal ageing of advanced reduced activation ferritic martensitic steels:
Numerous new alloys have been developed as part of the UKAEA NEURONE programme, an ambitious undertaking to develop a new high-temperature fusion-grade steel in the next four years. As part of this, we need to understand how these microstructures will evolve over sustained durations at elevated temperature (mimicking the fusion environment).
As part of an existing, successful study, the student will conduct thermal ageing of the steels for different durations (1 week, 1 month, 2 months, etc.) using on-site furnace facilities and characterise the microstructures evolved using microscopy (including optical and scanning electron), alongside other techniques such as x-ray diffraction.
The project will also include some coding/modelling work focussing on either thermodynamic simulations or methods of quantitative image analysis. The student will report on findings and present these to the alloy design team who will use this information to implement changes to the processing parameters.
Qualifications
Essential Requirements:
* To be considered you will need to be working towards a relevant degree and will be required to have the right to work in the UK.
Additional Information
A full list of our benefits can be found here
UKAEA's mission is clean energy for all, and we welcome talented people from all backgrounds who want to help us achieve our mission. We are under-represented 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 talent@ukaea.uk 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.