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Matt will contributing his expertise at this year's Nuclear Ventilation conference, for further details please visit the event website.
Could you briefly explain your role, involvement, and experience related to the focus of this event?
Matt Tomlinson (MT): Within my role in Sellafield's Nuclear Ventilation and Building Services CoE team, I provide support across the business on major projects, task-based design delivery and maintain company engineering standards. Recently, I have been working on reassessing the operating environment of the ThORP receipt & storage pond facility; validating calculations through producing CFD models of the environment; and sizing plant to achieve the ideal conditions.
What, in your experience, has been the biggest roadblock for the industry over the past 2-3 years?
MT: Within my role in Sellafield's Nuclear Ventilation and Building Services CoE team, I provide support across the business on major projects, task-based design delivery and maintain company engineering standards. Recently, I have been working on reassessing the operating environment of the ThORP receipt & storage pond facility; validating calculations through producing CFD models of the environment; and sizing plant to achieve the ideal conditions.
What key topics are you excited to discuss at this year's conference?
MT: I am excited to discuss how AI will be applicable in our industry and to hear any success stories that I might be able to apply myself.
What do you consider to be the key areas of innovation in this industry, both in the UK and internationally?
MT: As more data centres are constructed to meet increasing computing demands, I’m interested to see how nuclear energy can contribute to powering these facilities and how we might effectively re-use waste heat to provide heating to other buildings.
Who else are you most interested in hearing from on the programme?
MT: I am interested about hearing from Reimond-Peter Veres on "HVAC design for SMRs: insights, challenges and lessons learned"
Why is it important for engineers to join this conference?
MT: It’s important for engineers to stay up to date with industry developments in Nuclear Ventilation, so that these learnings can be applied to their own areas of work.
The 2025 Nuclear Ventilation conference will return to Manchester on 11-12 November 2025, for further details and to book your place, please visit the event website.