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  • 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

  • Evening Lecture – The first phase of MYRRHA: Small Particles for Big Applications

    Boulevard Simon Bolivar 34-36 1000 Brussels, Belgium

    The Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK•CEN) is actively working on designing and building a multifunctional research installation in Mol: MYRRHA. This presentation will discuss the facilities to be constructed in the first phase of the MYRRHA project together with their applications.

  • 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