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  • Evening Lecture – Nuclear Security

    Boulevard Simon Bolivar 34-36 1000 Brussels, Belgium

    For several years, numerous political and legal efforts have been initiated to address the threat of nuclear terrorism by enhancing nuclear security. The latter is defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as the “prevention and detection of, and response to, theft, sabotage, unauthorized access, illegal transfer or other malicious acts involving nuclear material, ... Read more

  • Workshop – Build Your Own Reactor

    Boulevard Simon Bolivar 34-36 1000 Brussels, Belgium

    This Workshop will give you the opportunity to design a reactor or work out a high-level reactor concept and present it to a jury of senior experts of industry and the safety authority. See it as a quiz for nuclear engineers! In a first round, you’ll have to defend your design or concept to a ... Read more

  • Evening Lecture – MYRRHA: Design evolution of the reactor

    Boulevard Simon Bolivar 34-36 1000 Brussels, Belgium

    SCK•CEN is at the forefront of Heavy Liquid Metal (HLM) nuclear technology worldwide with the development of the MYRRHA accelerator driven system (ADS). MYRRHA is serving since the FP5 EURATOM framework as the backbone of the P&T strategy of the European Commission based on the “4 building Blocks at Engineering level” and fostering the R&D ... Read more

  • Evening Lecture – The economics of nuclear energy in an evolving electricity system: going beyond the Levelised Cost of Electricity

    Boulevard Simon Bolivar 34-36 1000 Brussels, Belgium

    Many OECD member countries are pursuing ambitious objectives in term of both greenhouse gas emission reductions and deployment of variable renewable sources, in particular wind and solar PV. However, the transition towards a low-carbon energy mix and the integration of large shares of variable sources have a profound impact on electricity markets, on the value ... Read more

  • Scientific Contest 2018 (Autumn Edition)

    Boeretang 201 2400 Mol, Belgium

    On Thursday, November 29, the BNS-YG (Belgian Nuclear Society Young Generation) Scientific Contest joined for the first time the SCK•CEN Best Master Thesis Contest and took place at the SCK•CEN Lakehouse in Mol. In total, 9 manuscripts were submitted. For the Oral Competition, the ranking is as follows: Sara Vanderheyden, from the Hasselt Univeristy, for ... Read more

  • Evening Lecture – Vision on nuclear safety in the present context

    Boulevard Simon Bolivar 34-36 1000 Brussels, Belgium

    The vision on nuclear safety has considerably evolved during the last decade. In this presentation we limit ourselves to the European context, with a focus on the Belgian situation. It must be recognised that the Belgian nuclear actors, including the regulator FANC, all face a number of challenges, that will be commented during the presentation: ... Read more

  • Evening Lecture – RECUMO: Recovery of valuable uranium residues of radio-pharma in Belgium

    Boulevard Simon Bolivar 34-36 1000 Brussels, Belgium

    IRE and SCK•CEN signed on the 27th of December 2018 a partnership for implementing a structural solution for the uranium containing residues stored at IRE. SCK•CEN is designing a facility to treat these residues with as aim to recover the valuable uranium and to treat the wastes to be acceptable for long-term disposal. The presentation ... Read more

  • Evening Lecture – The Pallas reactor

    Boulevard Simon Bolivar 34-36 1000 Brussels, Belgium

    The PALLAS project aims to realize a state-of-the-art multifunctional nuclear reactor, suitable for producing medical isotopes and for conducting nuclear technology research. This reactor will replace the current High Flux Reactor (HFR) in Petten (NL), which is approaching the end of its economic life after over fifty years of operation. From 2025 onwards, PALLAS will ... Read more