Funders: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Funding type: Grant
Total fund: £16,250,000
Award range: £5,000,000 – £8,500,000
Publication date: 2 September 2025
Opening date: 5 September 2025
Closing date: 15 January 2026
Apply for funding for academic research addressing UK nuclear fission priorities. This is a strategic opportunity inviting large multidisciplinary consortia to adopt a whole-systems approach, integrating reactor design, fuel cycles, decommissioning, waste management, materials science, modelling, and socio-economic impacts to inform policy, provide impact and drive innovation. Consortia can have a focus area as well as an impact plan.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.
The full economic cost (FEC) of your project can be up to £8.5 million. EPSRC will fund 80% of the FEC.
Projects can last up to five years.