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  • Evening Lecture – Nuclear Energy: The Dreaming Reality

    Boulevard Simon Bolivar 34-36 1000 Brussels, Belgium

    Damien Ernst will discuss the future of nuclear energy in a world where competition with renewable energy is becoming increasingly fierce and where immense technological advances offer new opportunities for the nuclear industry.

  • Evening Lecture – The Reaction to the COVID-19 Virus in a Belgian NPP

    Videoconference , Belgium

    Wim Van Rompay is Care Manager at Doel NPP and appointed as Corona-Coordinator since the beginning of the crisis. He will elaborate on the approach of the power plant on how to react to the virus: keeping it out maximally, preparing contingency-plans and how to prepare for ‘the worst case scenario’. Technical and social measures ... Read more

  • Evening Lecture – Thorium: A Nuclear Energy Revolution

    Technologies invented for fundamental research, such as at CERN, find important applications in society at large. In this context, Jean-Pierre Revol will explain why physicists propose the use of proton accelerators in the field of nuclear energy to transmute nuclear waste, leading to exploiting thorium as a quasi-unlimited source of clean energy for the future. ... Read more

  • Evening Lecture – The Role of Nuclear in Europe’s Energy Transition

    The International Energy Agency (IEA) presents in 2020 the Energy Policies of the European Union report. It reviews the EU policies of the past five years and proposes recommendations to the EU and actions for the energy sector to enable the European Green Deal. In this context, the IEA has also reviewed the state of ... Read more

  • Evening Lecture – Decommissioning the Belgonucleaire MOX Plant

    The Belgonucleaire (BN) MOX plant was built in 1970-1972 and started operation in 1973 for the fabrication of MOX fuel for fast reactors and in 1986 for commercial LWRs. It was the first commercial plant to be decommissioned under the authority of the Federal Agency for Nuclear Control established in 2001. After a short description ... Read more

  • Nuclear Café – Applications of Machine Learning to Nuclear Safeguards

    Videoconference , Belgium

    Nuclear safeguards were established since the 1950’s to ensure that nuclear materials and nuclear technology are used only for peaceful purposes. Inspections are carried out regularly in nuclear facilities by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Member States that are signatories of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. This presentation will offer an overview of applications where ... Read more

  • 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 ... Read more

  • Evening Lecture – The hydrogen economy and the role of nuclear energy, including current fleet and SMRs

    The presentation will describe the current hydrogen industry with the main production technologies and applications, and the future hydrogen economy that is key to support the transition to a carbon-neutral economy. Then a focus will be made on the possibilities offered by nuclear energy for the production of hydrogen both using existing nuclear and hydrogen ... Read more