Simon Dumbill is a Technology Platform Lead for Irradiated Materials, Fuels and Actinides Handling and Characterisation for the Henry Royce Institute at the National Nuclear Laboratory.
Simon Dumbill has over thirty-five years’ experience in the nuclear industry involved with the study of the performance of materials, especially concerning the effects of irradiation on materials. This has particularly focused on the application of electron microscopy techniques to characterise materials at high spatial resolution.
As the NNL technical lead in the area of microstructural analysis, he has wide-ranging knowledge of the application of many analysis techniques and experience of a range of materials from steels, through zirconium alloys to graphite, carbon deposits and ceramic wasteform materials. Simon has managed facility relocation projects in NNL and its predecessors and led the effort to maintain an electron optics capability in the UK nuclear industry which has culminated in the establishment of the National Nuclear User Facility and Henry Royce Institute facilities in NNL’s Central Laboratory. Growing user access to these facilities is a current theme involving links with prospective users and translating their needs into programmes.
