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Professor Susan Parry has over thirty years experience of research and training in radiochemistry and radioanalytical methods of analysis. Over the years, based at the Imperial College Reactor Centre, she has worked with the nuclear industry to develop techniques for the study of stable and radioactive species, not only in the environment but also in reactor materials, such as graphite, steel, inconnel, other alloys and fuel cladding. Typical projects include the determination of chlorine in reactor materials (steels, alloys and graphite) and the speciation of iodine-129 in the atmospheric, terrestrial and marine environments.  Research projects are in collaboration with environmental and food safety agencies, site licence companies, national standards laboratories, including NPL, LGC and NIST, and nuclear energy companies.

 

 

 

Professor Kym Jarvis has more than twenty five years experience in research and development in the field of atmospheric plasma source spectrometry. She was Head of the Natural Environment Research Council Inductively Coupled Plasma Facility for twenty two years and was appointed Visiting Professor in Dept of Materials Science at Imperial College in 2007 and in 2009 moved to the Imperial College Centre for Environmental Policy. She is an acknowledged international expert in the development, evaluation and application of analytical instrumentation for ultra-trace element determination and isotopic measurement and has been instrumental in deploying solid state lasers to spatially resolved micro-sampling of materials including zeolites, specialised ceramics, high-purity metals, welds, papers, inks and dyes. She also has research interests in lanthanide element fractionation and mobility, boron isotope fractionation processes and fission track studies. She is currently developing highly novel approaches to radionuclide detection in nuclear power reactor bio-shield concretes in collaboration with the National Nuclear Laboratory and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.