Extreme Environments

Our multidisciplinary approach to nuclear research covers areas such as radiological and radiochemical instrumentation, robotics and process monitoring and automation. Our excellence in research in nuclear instrumentation, the nuclear fuel cycle and molten salt reactors, along with our location relative to Sellafield Ltd, Springfields Fuels Ltd and many supporting specialist companies have placed us in an internationally leading position in nuclear engineering systems. Our collective expertise in developing systems capable of operating in extreme harsh environments, such as ROVs for operation within the Primary Containment Vessels near the stricken reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, rad-hard electronics for monitoring criticality assemblies, drones and robotic systems for traversing complex unstructured environments and pipe networks inside nuclear facilities worldwide has driven advances technologies for decommissioning globally

Theme Leader

Dr David Cheneler MEng (Hons), PhD, CEng, MIMechE, MIED, PgCAP, FIMMM, SFHEA

Senior Lecturer

Energy Lancaster Nuclear, Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre, LIRA - Advanced Manufacturing, LIRA - Biomedical, LIRA - Environmental Modelling, LIRA - Extreme Environments, Robotics and Control

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Professor Plamen Angelov

Professor

Artificial Intelligence, Centre for Technological Futures , Cyber Security Research Centre (Data), Digital Health Group, DSI - Foundations, European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI , Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre, LIRA - Advanced Manufacturing, LIRA - Biomedical, LIRA - Environmental Modelling, LIRA - Extreme Environments, LIRA - Fundamentals, LIRA - Security and Defence, LIRA - Smart Cities and Mobility, LIRA - Society and Human Behaviour, Network and Systems, SCC (Data Science), Security Lancaster, Security Lancaster (Academic Centre of Excellence), Security Lancaster (Secure Machine Learning and Intelligence), Security Lancaster (Systems Security)

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Dr David Cheneler MEng (Hons), PhD, CEng, MIMechE, MIED, PgCAP, FIMMM, SFHEA

Senior Lecturer

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Dr Abdessalam Elhabbash

Lecturer in Distributed Systems

Artificial Intelligence, Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre, LIRA - Environmental Modelling, LIRA - Extreme Environments, LIRA - Fundamentals, SCC (Distributed Systems)

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Dr Stephen Monk

Senior Lecturer

Doctorate Centre in Nuclear Engineering, Energy Lancaster, Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre, LIRA - Extreme Environments, Robotics and Control, Security Lancaster, Security Lancaster (Networks)

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Professor James Taylor PhD, FIET

Professor of Control Engineering

AIRS-NFM, Doctorate Centre in Nuclear Engineering, DSI - Foundations, Energy Lancaster, Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre, LIRA - Environmental Modelling, LIRA - Extreme Environments, LIRA - Fundamentals, Robotics and Control, TALOS

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Dr Ziwei Wang

Lecturer in Robotics

Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre, LIRA - Advanced Manufacturing, LIRA - Extreme Environments, Robotics and Control

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Publications

Projects

IAA: Roadmapping for Through Life Enabled Lighting Systems
12/02/2025 → 31/08/2025
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IAA: SMART Subsea Connector Technology
12/02/2025 → 31/08/2025
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FST Engagement Fund
24/11/2022 → …
Research
FST Research Catalyst Fund
24/11/2022 → …
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Control and Navigation of Cooperative Unmanned Aerial Systems for Characterisation of Environmental Processes
01/02/2022 → 01/08/2025
Research
Fault-Tolerant Visual Servoing Control of a Hydraulically Actuated Manipulator
01/10/2021 → 01/07/2025
Research
MS4MSR (Molten Salt for Molten Salt Reactor)
01/07/2021 → 30/12/2025
Research
Adaptable Semiautonomous Underwater Decommissioning Sample Retrieval Robot
02/11/2020 → 30/06/2023
Research
Low Cost High Reliability Radiation Hardened Electronics System
01/11/2020 → 31/08/2021
Research
Robot Lightweighting
13/07/2020 → 26/09/2020
Consultancy
ITAR: Innovative Technologies Towards Building Affordable and Equitable Global Radiotherapy Capacity
01/04/2020 → 30/06/2021
Research

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Extreme Environments

Theme Leader

Dr David Cheneler MEng (Hons), PhD, CEng, MIMechE, MIED, PgCAP, FIMMM, SFHEA

Members

Professor Plamen Angelov

Dr David Cheneler MEng (Hons), PhD, CEng, MIMechE, MIED, PgCAP, FIMMM, SFHEA

Dr Abdessalam Elhabbash

Dr Stephen Monk

Professor James Taylor PhD, FIET

Dr Ziwei Wang

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