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  • General Assembly 2017 I

    Boulevard Simon Bolivar 34-36 1000 Brussels, Belgium

    Agenda: BNS and BNS-YG activities in 2017; Approval of the financial reporting of 2016 and budget for 2017; Position paper on nuclear energy.

  • Evening Lecture – Thorium fuel

    Boulevard Simon Bolivar 34-36 1000 Brussels, Belgium

    Thorium has recently been presented in the press as “the green future of nuclear” and it might seem as if thorium based fuel cycles are a recent breakthrough that remained overlooked for decades. Actually, this is not the case: research on thorium as a possible alternative resource for nuclear energy applications has a long history ... Read more

  • Evening Lecture – Molten Salt Reactor

    Rue de l'Industrie 43 1400 Nivelles, Belgium

    Molten Salt Reactors (MSR) have gained worldwide interest in recent years due their appealing characteristics with respect to safety and resource utilisation. In this reactor type the fuel is a liquid salt containing the fissile and fertile material to maintain the nuclear chain reaction. The liquid salt also serves as the primary coolant, and as ... Read more

  • Workshop – From nuclear data to a reliable estimate of spent fuel decay heat

    Boeretang 200 2400 Mol, Belgium

    Nuclear spent fuel continues to emit heat for hundreds of years challenging both intermediate and final disposal. A reliable estimate of this decay heat is of utmost importance for both the design and safe operation of the repositories. Combining state-of-the-art nuclear data, particle transport codes and uncertainty propagation tools, one can develop a procedure to ... Read more

  • Evening Lecture – Three EPRs in construction at less than 500 km from the Belgian border

    Avenue Ariane 7 1200 Brussels, Belgium

    The EPR combines the return of experience of 40 years of operation by EDF, engineering studies and safety principles primarily shared by European countries with a strong foothold in the Asian Market. With Flamanville 3 as the reference, EDF is now in a position of demonstrating what such nuclear technology can bring in low carbon ... Read more

  • Technical Visit – JRC in Geel

    Retieseweg 111 B-2440 Geel, Belgium

    Among the pulsed white spectrum neutron sources available in the world, the linear electron accelerator facility at IRMM (Gelina) is the one with the best time resolution. Gelina combines four specially designed and distinct units: a high-power pulsed linear electron accelerator, a post-accelerating beam compression magnet system, a mercury-cooled uranium target, and very long flight ... Read more

  • Evening Lecture – A critical view on the EU plans for our future electricity supply

    Boulevard Simon Bolivar 34-36 1000 Brussels, Belgium

    The consequences of a massive use of intermittent renewable energy systems for electricity generation are highlighted using Germany’s renewable electricity data from the last 5 years. The great variability in solar and wind production leads to periods of both massive overproduction and nearly complete shortage of renewable electricity. To compensate this, storage and backup power ... Read more

  • Scientific Contest 2018

    Boulevard Simon Bolivar 34-36 1000 Brussels, Belgium

    On Thursday, February 22, the BNS-YG (Belgian Nuclear Society Young Generation) Scientific Contest took place at the Engie Tower in Brussels. In total, 12 applications have been received. For the Oral Competition, the ranking is as follows: Kristof Gladinez, for his paper submitted to the Royal Society of Chemistry and prepared at SCK•CEN and Ghent ... Read more