Overview
UKAEA’s world-leading Tritium Training Course is an ideal opportunity for anyone working with tritium systems or anything that comes into contact with tritium. Participants can learn from the expert team based at Culham Campus, Oxfordshire, UK. This one-day, classroom-based course is applicable to industry, academia, start-ups, graduates, new starters, and many more. The course includes modules ranging from the chemistry of tritium to fusion fuel cycles. The day at Culham also includes a tour of the Active Gas Handling System, UKAEA’s tritium processing plant, which played a vital role in JET’s record-breaking campaigns and is still managing the tritium being off-gassed by the tokamak.
Important Information
Price: £960 for the training course (1 day).
Price includes lunches, refreshments, and the training course Handbook to take away
Course Agenda
| Tritium Fundamentals | • Chemistry of Tritium • Uses • Safety and Basic Confinement • Challenges |
| The Tritium Fuel Cycle | • Fuel Cycles • Sub-systems |
| Tritium Plant Key Concepts | • Material Selection • Pumping and Vacuum • Measuring and Monitoring • Tritium Accountancy • Confinement Philosophies • Installation and Maintenance • Decommissioning and Waste • Safety Cases • Standards and Regulation |
Getting to Culham Campus
Culham Campus is located near Abingdon, Oxfordshire, and is easily accessible by various modes of transportation:
Here is some information to help you find your way: https://culham.org.uk/contact/.
We encourage you to get here by public transport, such as train. Culham Railway Station is only a few minutes’ walk from Culham Campus’ main entrance. There is a service connection to Oxford, Didcot and London (via Didcot), operated by Great Western Railway. Check it here: https://www.gwr.com/
Upon arrival to Culham Campus, you will need to check in at the visitor’s reception to obtain your visitor pass and conference pass. Each person MUST bring photo ID to receive a pass. Without photo ID, you WILL NOT be granted access to the site. Please bring with you a valid driving licence (not the paper version) or a passport. The ID you bring with you must have a photo on it or else we cannot accept it.
Visas
Please check the UK Government website to see if you need a visa to attend this conference and if so click the box when registering your interest.
We will send you a visa invitation letter to assist with the process. We recommend you apply for a visa at least 16 weeks ahead of the event.
If you require a conference invitation letter to help secure a visa, please write to stating your full name, organisation and nationality as on your passport