{"id":94195,"date":"2018-07-23T08:07:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T08:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6ce31f581201e3a56be4cbdafc0e9f94"},"modified":"2018-07-23T08:07:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T08:07:03","slug":"news-story-committee-on-radioactive-waste-management-tour-of-the-dalton-cumbrian-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=94195","title":{"rendered":"News story: Committee on Radioactive Waste Management tour of the Dalton Cumbrian Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The committee visited the Dalton Cumbrian Facility (<abbr title=\"Dalton Cumbrian Facility\">DCF<\/abbr>) on 19 June. This is a \u00a320 million facility which opened in September 2013 and was jointly funded by the University of Manchester and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. It is a state-of-the-art ion beam and gamma irradiation facility for nuclear research and development and is part of the National Nuclear User Facility (<abbr title=\"National Nuclear User Facility\">NNUF<\/abbr>), the National Ion Beam Centre and Royce Institute for Advanced materials.<\/p>\n<p>The committee was given a tour around the facility, including visits to the ion accelerators and beamlines, gamma irradiator and materials characterisation laboratory. These facilities allow scientists to assess radiation damage in a short period, that would normally occur over longer timescales. The committee gained insight into the cutting-edge research going on at <abbr title=\"Dalton Cumbrian Facility\">DCF<\/abbr> exploring radiation damage in different materials key to the nuclear industry. A large portion of the research activities is dedicated to decommissioning and the safe management and disposal of radioactive waste.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) visited Dalton Cumbrian Facility on 19 June 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}