Our work addresses specific issues and challenges facing Government and the UK nuclear sector.
Our Work
NIRO works for DESNZ, supporting needs across the department and engaging with private industry, industry bodies and regulators, to provide advice, evidence and supporting engagement.
NIRO has supported several policy interventions across a range of areas. Our support has enabled aspects of business case development, programme planning and development, pre-tender briefings, assessment and evaluation, pre-job briefs, management support, technical monitoring, inflight and post project reviews, lessons learnt briefs and post project evaluation.
Advice to Government and examples of areas of expertise
The impact and delivery of Government’s nuclear net-zero innovation programme.
- Nuclear fuel design and manufacture
- Manufacturing and materials
- Reactor design and operation
- Test reactor demonstration – design & deliver & programme delivery
- Construction technology (including modular and other novel methods)
- Waste management and decommissioning
- Modelling and simulation
- Nuclear regulation
- Generic Design Assessment (GDA)
- Policy support and technical underpinning
Opportunities for greater collaboration with industry and international partners.
- The UK/International nuclear industry landscape
- Cross-sector expertise
- Commercialisation of R&D
- Euratom and international engagements
- Stakeholder liaison and public perception
- Generation (IV) international forum
- Work with Government agencies, bodies, catapults and academic institutes
- NIRO on NEA committee and IAEA working groups
The potential for innovation to reduce the cost of the nuclear life cycle.
- Economics of nuclear
- Cross-sector experience of innovation
- Advanced Nuclear Technologies (ANTs)
- Nuclear fuel cycle
- Delivery of large new projects
- Nuclear infrastructure requirements
Implementation of research programmes to demonstrate new and novel nuclear systems.
- Expertise relevant to Advanced Nuclear
- Sector strategy
- Skills, training, workforce development
- Tender development and evaluation
- Research reactors, health and nuclear medicine
