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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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, ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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
