Senior Lecturer in Nuclear Physics, University of Birmingham
Paul Norman is a Senior Lecturer in the Nuclear Physics group, Head of MSc courses and MSc lab within Physics, and Director of Postgraduate Programmes for Birmingham Centre for Nuclear Education and Research (CNER). He is course supervisor for the MSc in Physics and Technology of Nuclear Reactors MSc program, which he has run for almost 8 years.
Dr Norman has also done pure nuclear physics research, including significant contributions at both CERN and Brookhaven national lab. On the applied nuclear physics side, Dr Norman has appeared several times on BBC's “The Politics Show” speaking about nuclear power, and has had many radio appearances and publications in physics and engineering magazines, as well as a couple of articles in “The House” magazine (the magazine of the House of Lords and House of Commons).
Nuclear fusion: how excited should we be?
Feb 24, 2022 20:50 pm UTC| Science
Theres been tremendous excitement about recent results from the Joint European Torus (JET) facility in the UK, hinting that the dream of nuclear fusion power is inching closer to reality. We know that fusion works it is...
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