Ad Hoc Nuclear Research and Development Advisory Board

The ad hoc Nuclear Research and Development Advisory Board was set up by the British Government in March 2012, recognising "the important role that nuclear research and development plays in the UK, helping to underpin the performance and safety cases of operational plants, inform government policy, develop innovative solutions and provide industry and regulators with a cadre of skilled people."

The Government’s former Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir John Beddington was its chairman.

The Board assisted the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) with the following documents:

• Long-term Nuclear Energy Strategy which explains government policy to facilitate market uptake so that nuclear energy can play an increasingly significant role in the UK up to 2050 and beyond
• Nuclear R&D Landscape Review which assesses current civil nuclear R&D capability within the UK, and whether it is sufficient to meet government and private sector demands
• Nuclear R&D Roadmap which sets out R&D activities required to deploy up to 75GW of nuclear energy in the UK and to ensure that the UK can make informed decisions about future technologies.
• Nuclear Industrial Vision Statement explaining the UK nuclear industry’s own vision for its industry in domestic and global markets to 2050, and how to enable this

Members

In September 2012, its members were:

• Sir John Beddington: Government Chief Scientific Advisor, GO-Science (until March 2013)
• Professor David MacKay: Chief Scientific Adviser, DECC;
• Dr Stephen de Souza: Head of Nuclear and Radioactive Waste;
• Professor John Perkins: Chief Scientific Adviser, BIS;
• Dr Graeme Reid: Head of Research Funding Unit, BIS
• Mr George Beveridge: Deputy Managing Director, Sellafield Ltd;
• Professor Richard Clegg: Global Nuclear Director, Lloyds Register
• Professor Steve Cowley: Chief Executive Officer, UK Atomic Energy Authority
• Mr Stuart Crooks: Chief Technology Officer, Nuclear Generation, EDF
• Professor Robin Grimes: Director, Imperial College Centre for Nuclear Engineering (appointed UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office chief scientific adviser in February 2013;
• Mr Norman Harrison: Director, Strategic Development, Babcock International Group
• Professor Paul Howarth: Managing Director, National Nuclear Laboratory;
• Dame Sue Ion: Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering;
• Professor Francis Livens: Radiochemistry, University of Manchester;
• Mrs Jean Llewellyn OBE: Chief Executive, National Skills Academy Nuclear;
• Professor Rebecca Lunn: Engineering Geosciences, University of Strathclyde;
• Dr Graeme Nicholson: Director, Science and Technology, AWE;
• Mr Keith Parker: Chief Executive, Nuclear Industry Association;
• Professor Richard Parker: Director of Research and Technology, Rolls-Royce;
• Professor Nawal Prinja: Technical Director, AMEC Nuclear
• Professor Andrew Sherry: Director, Dalton Nuclear Institute, University of Manchester
• Dr Adrian Simper: Strategy Director, Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
• Dr Mike Weightman: HM Chief Inspector of Nuclear Installations.

Publications

• Ad Hoc Nuclear Research and Development Advisory Board: Summary of the Recommendations and Work of the Board Ref: BIS/13/628 PDF, 119KB, 16 pages