Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
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 9:00am UK time
Closing date:
15 January 2026 4:00pm UK time
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.
Who can apply
To lead a project, you must be based at an eligible organisation. .
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) standard eligibility rules apply. For full details, visit .
Resubmissions
We will not accept uninvited resubmissions of projects that have been submitted to UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) or any other funder.