York Insights

Comment and opinion from experts at York

  • The 40,000-person gap: securing the UK’s nuclear skills pipeline

    When I started my career in the 1990s, nuclear physics was often framed as a quest for fundamental discovery, often doing our nuclear physics experiments abroad, at international laboratories like CERN. Like many of my peers, I was excited by this field of ‘big science’ which was about solving fundamental problems on an international scale.…

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    The 40,000-person gap: securing the UK’s nuclear skills pipeline