Research project

NNUF-EXACT

Project overview

NNUF-EXACT (Next Generation Accelerated Characterisation Technologies), part of the UK government's phase 2 National Nuclear User Facility investment, is based at the University of Southampton's Waterfront Campus, and aims to be a world-leading radiochemistry facility enabling research and training in accelerated nuclear characterisation and remediation technologies underpinning civil nuclear programmes, decommissioning and site clean-up, and new nuclear infrastructure. EXACT provides a ‘test-bed’ facility for research and development in the fields of nuclear characterisation and remediation, enabling evaluation and validation of new technologies using nuclear relevant materials and radiotracers.
The facility comprises of a suite of easily accessible project laboratories which are capable of handling radioactive materials and able to offer a flexible user configurable environment to host user’s equipment and experimental set-ups.

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Phillip Warwick

Associate Dean-Enterprise
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Other researchers

Professor J. Andy Milton

Prof Fellow in Analytical Geochemistry
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Professor Andrew Cundy

Chair in Environmental Radiochemistry

Research interests

  • Environmental radioactivity and radiochemistry
  • Environmental geology
  • Contaminated land, wastes and water management
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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Jamie M. Purkis, Frances Burrell, James R. Brydie, James Graham, Laurence Hopkinson & Andrew B. Cundy, 2023, Environmental Science: Advances, 2(4), 652-662
Type: article
Jamie M. Purkis, Phillip Warwick, James Graham, Shaun Daniel Hemming & Andy Cundy, 2021, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 413
Type: review