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
This technical visit is intended to introduce the unique features of the Belgian Reactor 2, the most performing operating material test reactor in Europe today. A selected panel of experts from the operator and user community will highlight the different trends in current R&D for applications of nuclear technology and how the BR2 reactor is ... Read more
IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.) is a global medical technology company focused on bringing integrated and innovative solutions for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The Company is the worldwide technology leader in the field of proton therapy, the most advanced form of radiation therapy available today. IBA’s proton therapy solutions are flexible and adaptable, ... 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
On Thursday, February 23, the BNS-YG (Belgian Nuclear Society Young Generation) Scientific Contest took place at Tractebel head office. In total, 15 manuscripts have been received. This year, the BNS-YG has the privilege to award 2 special prizes, which are donated by ONDRAF/NIRAS, for the best Master Theses defended at a Belgian University. For the ... 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 decontamination) were developed and tested in real scale on actual active materials, representative of future commercial NPP dismantling. At the same time the main principles ... Read more
