Scientific Contest 2020

This year, the BNS-YG joins forces with the Belgian Nuclear Research Center SCK•CEN and the Belgian Agency for Radioactive Waste and Enriched Fissile Materials ONDRAF/NIRAS to offer to the young generation a renewed Nuclear Scientific Contest.
Awards will be granted by these 3 institutions for the best original works related to nuclear science in its broadest sense, whether it is a Master thesis, a PhD work or a scientific paper.
The Scientific Contest aims to encourage and reward young scientists or engineers in the nuclear field with money prizes following an oral competition and a poster session. The prizes for this edition will amount to more than 5500 € in total.
For more information, please take a look at the official announcement of the joint event.
Please log in ( https://bnsorg.be/login/ ) with your BNS member account to get the password for the video recording.
https://vimeo.com/487744449
Laureates for the BNS-YG awards

First price to Raghda Ramadan
Paper: “Connexin43 Hemichannel Targeting Alleviates Radiation-Induced Endothelial Cell Damage”
Link to the poster

Second prize to Niels Cautaerts
Paper: “The role of Ti and TiC in Ti-stabilized austenitic steel under ion irradiation”
Link to the poster

Third prize to Chao Yin
Paper: “Anisotropy in the hardness of single crystal tungsten before and after neutron irradiation”
Link to the poster

Best poster prize to Riccardo Rossa
Paper: “Comparison of machine learning models for the detection of partial defects in spent nuclear fuel”
Link to the poster
Laureates for the ONDRAF/NIRAS awards

Souhail Oukil
Thesis: “Evaluation of the Dynamic Rod Worth Measurement technique”
Link to the poster

Johannes Lips
Thesis: “Antenna Optimization for Plasma Positioning Reflectometry in Blanket-Equipped Tokamaks”
Link to the poster
Laureates for the SCK CEN awards

Barale Heddy
Thesis: “Application of the SERPENT2 code to neutronic analyses of the MYRRHA core: a sensitivity approach”
Link to the thesis

Yohannes Molla
Thesis: “OpenMC modelling of the critical MYRRHA configuration: an emphasis on cross-section homogenization”
Link to the thesis
Other Candidates

For the BNS-YG awards: Delphine Hoorelbeke
Paper: “Cx43 channels and signaling via IP3/Ca2+, ATP and ROS/NO propagate radiation-induced DNA damage to non-irradiated brain microvascular endothelial cells”
Link to the poster

For the BNS-YG awards: Bram Mast
Paper: “The effect of high dose rate gamma irradiation on the curing of Fe-rich inorganic polymers”
Link to the poster

For the BNS-YG awards: Ali Muntasir
Paper: “DNA-Binding of Unphosphorylated Response Regulator AgrR From Cupriavidus Metallidurans Involved in Silver Resistance (Ag-NPs formation)”
Link to the poster

For the BNS-YG awards: Riccardo Rossa
Paper: “Comparison of machine learning models for the detection of partial defects in spent nuclear fuel”
Link to the poster

For the BNS-YG awards: Tadeáš Wangle
Paper: “Morphology dependent sintering path of nanocrystalline ThO2”
Link to the poster

For the BNS-YG awards: Marek Beliš
Paper: “Morphology dependent sintering path of nanocrystalline ThO2”
Link to the poster

For the BNS-YG awards: Nancy Wanna
Paper: “Quantification of U, Pu, Nd & Gd for the characterization of spent nuclear fuel using isotope dilution HPIC-SF-ICP-MS”
Link to the poster

For the ONDRAF/NIRAS awards: Toon Van der Veken
Thesis: “Uncertainties on the neutron activation calculations for the reactor pressure vessel wall of Doel 3”

For the SCK CEN awards: Emily Haemers
Thesis: “Characterisation of tissue damage in a mouse model for pelvic radiotherapy and safety assessment of two potential mitigators, Limnospira indica PCC8005 and Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus GG ATCC 53103”
Link to the thesis
 

For the SCK CEN awards: Silvia Fiore
Thesis: “CFD analysis of the effects of a fuel assembly blockage in a liquid metal colled fission reactor”
Link to the thesis

For the SCK CEN awards: Joris Gackowski
Thesis: “Comparison of Space Radiation Models and Evaluation of Shielding Efficiency by using the Monte Carlo Code PHITS”
Link to the thesis

For the SCK CEN awards: Calvin Omari

Thesis: “Dashboards for Critical Infrastructure Protection & Risk Management”
Link to the thesis

For the SCK CEN awards: Yann Van Royen
Thesis: “The future of Moon spacewalks: next-generation radiation protective spacesuit”
Link to the thesis