Research

We seek to find new ways of addressing social awareness and understanding of the civil nuclear industry by uniting the nuclear sciences with a range of disciplines, including anthropology, organisation and business, law, history, and science and technology studies. We believe that grasping current preoccupations and debates in the industry may allow us to develop new insights into issues such as nuclear new build, the development of new technologies and the provision of geological disposal facilities. Read more.

See publications from The Beam team

Exploring entanglements and tensions that arise between ‘the repetitive’ and ‘the sustainable’ in nuclear discourse

Visiting expert Professor Jeremy Rayner will include the UK in an international comparison study

The Beam launches interdisciplinary postgraduate module

Online seminar series exploring the ways in which the unknown is rendered knowable

The Beam invites you to visit a short series of mini-lectures exploring ‘Nuclear Science and Engineering as Social Practice’

The BNFL National Stakeholder Dialogue was the biggest nuclear stakeholder dialogue exercise in the UK, and probably in the world.

£2.5m collaborative venture is launched to support research into safe geological disposal

What are the attributes of a nuclear energy system which would justify investment in its future development with a view to deployment in the UK?

The Beam visits ‘x=2140’, a fascinating exhibition born from the Sellafield site futures project.