The students, Rachael Matthews and Tianyi Li, are part of the South West Nuclear Hub, which has a three-year training agreement with the EDF Materials Ageing Institute. Every year, two or more students will be offered the opportunity to go to the MAI for a week to receive high-end nuclear training. This will be delivered by academics and by industrial stakeholders such as EDF or the French Regulatory Authority.
Courses are taught in English, and students attend the course alongside MSc students from the Grenoble’s Institut Nationale de Physique.
Tianyi Li said: “This was a great opportunity to network and to further develop my commercial awareness of the nuclear energy sector. In addition, I am now motivated to learn French as my third language, because I realised how important the role France plays is in the international nuclear sector.”
You can find a longer account of the exchange by Tianyi Li on the South West Nuclear Hub website.
Hing Ip Wong, Director of the MAI, said: “MAI was very proud to welcome for the first time two students from Bristol. The feedback from students and MAI lecturers was excellent. By opening the course to Bristol’s students, we are enriching MAI with high-level participants. I’m looking forward to welcoming the next exchange from Bristol”.