Date:
Saturday, 23 March, 2024 - 10:00 to 16:00
Event location:
Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, CB2 1PZ
Drive a nuclear reactor: Simulate driving a nuclear reactor controlled using buttons and screens to understand powering a nuclear reactor.
Discover about radiation of household objects: Lazy Susan wheel integrated with radio transmitting sources and detector to demonstrate household items and their relative radioactivity.
See a star in a jar: Demonstration IEC fusor electrostatic confinement demonstrating plasma physics phenomena.
Uncover the source of your home’s power: Screen demonstrating grid watch which shows the current energy mix of the UK as well as the use of grains of rice to illustrate energy density.