North Western Region Events

Nuclear fusion offers the possibility of long-term sustainable low-carbon energy, but some formidable technical challenges remain to be solved, including the fuel cycle. This talk will discuss the fuel used by fusion reactors and explore some of the challenges and potential solutions involved in providing a sustainable fusion fuel cycle.

Oil and gas fields in deep water have increasingly been exploited as the more accessible fields have become depleted. Their exploitation brings ever larger challenges for technology, scale and logistics and are a success story that is little heard about in the UK. Barrovian Tony Oldfield as, Project Director of most of the developments off Africa, has the firsthand experience to tell us about these engineering exploits.