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 Modelling of tritium induced nuclear reactions Most current fusion reaction designs plan to use tritium (a radioactive isotope of hydrogen) as a fuel. As this is rare in nature, such devices will include tritium breeding technologies to ensure fuel self-sufficiency. To achieve this an understanding of all potential tritium loss mechanisms is needed. One possible, but current poorly quantified, loss mechanism is energetic tritium inducing secondary nuclear reactions which consume the tritium. Accurate cross sections for such reactions are needed to ensure complete fuel cycle modelling. The project will cover reaction modelling of tritium-induced nuclear reactions on targets relevant to breeder blankets (Li, H, He, etc). The student will investigate current tritium-nucleus scattering potentials and optimise the parametrisation for the relevant targets as needed. These potentials can then be used in nuclear reaction codes to calculate cross sections for the nuclear reactions which result in tritium loss. These can be compared to existing experimental data alongside any pre-existing predictions. With these the student could perform indicative calculations of rate of tritium loss via secondary nuclear reactions.