The European Human Resource Observatory for Nuclear (EHRO-N) provides the European Commission with essential data related to supply and demand for nuclear experts in the EU28 and the enlargement and integration countries based on bottom-up information from the nuclear industry. The objective is to assess how the supply of experts for the nuclear industry in ... Read more
The accumulation of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere due to the use of fossil fuels for the production of energy, the release in traces of other gases which could modify the radiative balance of the climatic system, the intensive deforestation and the artificial modification of the soil linked with demographic explosion are that much ... Read more
In this lecture, the total CO2 cost of nuclear energy is first discussed on the basis of a comparison of three studies from organizations with different views on nuclear energy. These values are then put into perspective through a comparison to other sources of energy for electricity production. The lecture will finally address the challenges and ... Read more
In the summer of 2012, inspections of the reactor vessels of Doel 3 and Tihange 2 nuclear power stations revealed the presence of indications that required in-depth analyses. Electrabel carried out a thorough investigation in response to the indications found in the two reactor vessels. These investigations confirmed that the indications correspond to hydrogen flakes ... Read more
Official opening of the 15th academic year of the BNEN Interuniversity Programme in nuclear engineering (https://bnen.sckcen.be/). Two interesting lectures are scheduled: “Gravitational Waves Exist: The inside story of the first sounds of merging black holes”, by Prof. Thomas Hertog; “The Politics of Hypothesis – An Inquiry into the Ethics of Scientific Assessment”, by Dr. Gaston ... Read more
The use of protons, and other charged particle beams for radiotherapy was already proposed by Bob Wilson in 1946. The first clinical applications started 20 years later, in the late 1960’s in Berkeley, at Harvard University and in Uppsala (Sweden), in nuclear physics laboratories. We had to wait to the 1990’s to see the first ... Read more
The BR3 project was selected in 1989 as European pilot decommissioning project. This pilot project concerned the decontamination and dismantling of a pilot PWR plant. Several techniques of dismantling (and ... Read more
In June 2016 an historical political agreement was made in Sweden, which put an end to 40 years of nuclear power debate. Five political parties, representing a Governmental majority, signed ... Read more
