Culham Materials Research Facility
The Materials Research Facility of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (which at the Culham site also houses the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy) has been completed and will soon start commissioning for active operations. As part of the National Nuclear User Facility, the MRF is a completely new user-oriented facility that will provide academic and industrial users - both in fission and fusion - with easily accessible equipment for the processing and characterisation of radioactive materials. Specimens can be prepared and studied on-site; alternatively, the preparation facilities can be used for making specimens for research in the user's own lab.
For more information and to apply to use the facilities, contact NNUF or UKAEA
The MRF has been developed in close collaboration with the Department of Materials at Oxford, primarily due to the Materials for Fission and Fusion activities of Professor Steve Roberts and many colleagues.
UK Atomic Energy Authority
