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  • Evening Lecture – EU Long-Term Decarbonisation Strategy

    Boulevard Simon Bolivar 34-36 1000 Brussels, Belgium

    Parties of the Paris Agreement have to present their long-term low greenhouse gas emission strategies by 2020. As a first step to fullfill this committment, the European Commission developed an EU Long Term Decarbonisation Strategy of the European economy. The analysis is based on techno-economic modelling of the energy system. Eight scenarios were developed and ... Read more

  • Panel session regarding the HBO “Chernobyl” miniseries

    Boulevard Simon Bolivar 34-36 1000 Brussels, Belgium

    On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant near Pripyat, Ukraine, experienced a malfunction which resulted in a core explosion in reactor 4. This HBO Chernobyl series follows Valery Legasov, the lead scientist working to control the disaster, Boris Shcherbina, a Soviet politician representing the interests of the Soviet government during the disaster, and ... Read more

  • Evening Lecture – Belgian national policy on radioactive waste, or the recent progress and advances in the final disposal of low-level radioactive waste (cat A)

    Boulevard Simon Bolivar 34-36 1000 Brussels, Belgium

    On June 23, 2006, the Federal Council of Ministers decided that category A waste would be disposed of in a surface disposal facility in the municipality of Dessel, which borders on the municipality of Mol. ONDRAF/NIRAS was ordered to further develop the integrated disposal project and to obtain the required licenses. ONDRAF/NIRAS has submitted a ... Read more

  • Scientific Contest 2019

    Boeretang 201 2400 Mol, Belgium

    On Thursday, November 28, the BNS-YG (Belgian Nuclear Society Young Generation) Scientific Contest took place at the SCK•CEN Lakehouse in concomitance with the SCK•CEN Best Master Thesis Contest. In total, 8 manuscripts were received. For the Oral Competition, the ranking is as follows: Jonas Vande Pitte, for his thesis made at UGent and SCK•CEN on ... Read more

  • Evening Lecture – The Development of SMRs: Challenges and Opportunities

    Boulevard Simon Bolivar 34-36 1000 Brussels, Belgium

    The potential of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) as a competitive, low carbon technology in future integrated energy systems is gaining recognition by policymakers. SMRs bring simplification and standardisation that could improve the overall economics and deployment of nuclear energy. While some developers have made significant progress over the last few years towards the construction of ... Read more

  • 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.