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  • 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.

  • 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