Alastair Baker
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Alastair Baker
@alastairbaker1.bsky.social
Welsh Chemical Scientist in #FlowChemisty.
Experimental Officer of MULTIForm Users Facility, part of the NNUF.
Tech-Editor of Nuclear Future Journal.
Chemist by training, Chem’Eng’er through practice. Loves a puns.
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Whenever I thing I am doing good promotion for myself and my facility on linkedin, I remember when a chief designer said;
[1] instagram.com/p/CzeB34RAyuv/
December 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Learning Mykhailo Mudryk has tested positive for Meldonium made by Grindex of Latvia, I had to look up the structure…

Acetylcholine, is that you?
November 29, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Yea, its Copenhagen Atomics built them in, green is pumping, priming is purple, lush isnt it! Its looks great in the dark too
November 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
just completed our first NNUF experiment,
pumping molten LiKCl at 450degC for 450h at 8,000L/h,
over UoLiv 8x samples,
this is an unreal feeling.

after 12years since the logo of the NNUF was showed to an MP, a massive AMR milestone for GOV.UK and GenIV (IMO). massive thx to Copenhagen Atomics.
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
While working from home as my infant was unwell,
My 4yo joined me in the group meeting of the Nuclear Engineering Group,
I split the screen and the wee man did his first digital drawing in paint, and I love that I have captured their first NFT and how lovely my research group was to my boy.
November 27, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Guilty!
Live scenes with 9mo
November 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Scottish culture really is a research powerhouse, 2nd and 3rd per capita from Copley Medal and Nobel Prizes.*

*Generated by MSCo-pilot with global north bias
November 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The scottish have always been a scientific people, I am sure we could use this rather than overusing defining research as 'novel.'

Lets try; not proven... until now!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_pro...
November 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
If we cant cool it in gas,
Why not drown it in molten salt…

ARC fusion reactor is a conceptual design for a compact, high-power nuclear fusion power plant, developed by MIT and Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS).
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
#NukeSky, my MSCopilot prompt;
please can I have a cartoon for making 94-Pu-238 #Plute
November 17, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Hahaha ‘new technology,’
Mate, its a steam engine again.

www.ft.com/content/926e...
November 12, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Also, phosgene sits at the bottom of Beaufort’s Dyke [1], the deep trench that lies silent between the shores of Northern Ireland and Scotland,
all 14500 tons of 5-inch artillery rockets of it.

[1] ukdefencejournal.org.uk/beauforts-dy...
October 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Memes for #NukeSky,
It used to be a McDonalds toilet
October 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Memes for #NukeSky
October 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Earlier this year I said goodbye to my mentor who cruelly passed from aggressive motor neuron disease.
I began lecturing, and I asked him for a slide, which I am now removing from this semesters upload, but for one last time here it is... I may leave it in the actual lecture...
October 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Hey @stuartcantrill.com
Got any tips? I done this talk before but always looking for BATs…

nuclearinst.com/Events/lunch...
October 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This is class
October 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
October 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Wet blanket man
October 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
October 2, 2025 at 5:11 AM
My comfort show is getting a reboot and I am very hesitant about getting excited for it
September 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Nuclear microreactors are different from flowchemistry microreactors; doi.org/10.1080/0029...
But you cannot argue with the dispatachable energy of burning diesel
September 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
OOO
September 12, 2025 at 7:12 AM
September 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Incredible book title!
September 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM