1000scholars seeks a PhD candidate to investigate tritium breeding ratio optimisation for closed-loop fusion reactors. The project focuses on breeder blanket design, neutron transport and thermo-mechanical material performance under UK tokamak operating conditions at Swansea.
The work will start with Monte Carlo neutronics using OpenMC (or equivalent) and progress toward surrogate modelling and AI-assisted data extraction from international fusion datasets.
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