Evening Lecture

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 ... 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 ... 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

Thorium has recently been presented in the press as “the green future of nuclear” and it might seem as if thorium based fuel cycles are a recent breakthrough that remained ... Read more

Molten Salt Reactors (MSR) have gained worldwide interest in recent years due their appealing characteristics with respect to safety and resource utilisation. In this reactor type the fuel is a ... Read more

The EPR combines the return of experience of 40 years of operation by EDF, engineering studies and safety principles primarily shared by European countries with a strong foothold in the ... Read more