We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2016 NuMART competition is Miss Mariem Ben Saada, CEA Cadarache, France.

NuMART is an image competition run at the NuMAT conference series. In 2016 we received 32 images for consideration in the competition. Delegates of the NuMat conference were given the opportunity to vote on their favourite image.

The winning image appears below:

Strange eyes and curves observed on the surface of a UO2 sintered pellet after a compression creep test performed at 1500°C, under an Ar + 5% H2 atmosphere
Strange eyes and curves observed on the surface of a UO2 sintered pellet after a compression creep test performed at 1500°C, under an Ar + 5% H2 atmosphere