I’m a senior nuclear chemist. I work for the United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory at Sellafield.

I work on projects ENCOMPASSING clean energy, space power, and nuclear medicine.

All the samples I work with are radioactive.

 

My main expertise is mass spectrometry and isotopic analysis.


Of all the branches of modern science, nuclear science in particular bears fruit that can help solve some of the most daunting challenges that beset us. From clean energy production, to climate change reversal, to space exploration, and to advanced medicine, nuclear science touches all corners of our modern world. It is an exciting time to be a nuclear scientist.

 
 

While it has its own challenges — long-term nuclear waste disposal, for example — it is the most environmentally friendly form of large-scale electricity generation. If nuclear technologies are embraced wholeheartedly, nuclear power could give the world essentially unlimited energy.

 
 

The world deserves solutions to its problems; nuclear can provide many of those solutions.

My hope is that by outlining a positive case for nuclear — whilst addressing the unique challenges that it brings to the table — I will help shift the needle in its favour.

 

 

If you’d like to hear more about nuclear science or would like me to be involved with a project:

 

All views are my own and not those of my employer.