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

Master students, beginning PhD students or professionals involved in the characterisation of spent nuclear fuel: decay heat calculations and measurements.

Het volledige programma kan hier worden gedownload:

Programme training course decay heat October 25, 2017.pdf

Basic knowledge on nuclear data, reactor and/or criticality calculations, nuclear physics experiments and measurements.

There is no preparation needed for this training course.

Upon completion of this training course, participants will

In terms of knowledge:

• Go from the process of nuclear fission into detail on the different energy contributions (fission fragments, neutron and gamma-ray emission);
• See the difference between direct and delayed contributions to the energy release;
• Understand the concept of “Q-value”;
• Learn the physics and approximations behind reactor depletion and activation calculations;
• Analyse different techniques for spent fuel characterisation and learn how these experiments are needed for the validation of computational codes.

Regular registration: € 440 (VAT incl) for the training course on October 25.

This registration fee includes:

• lunch and refreshment breaks
• a closing student dinner
• the transactions via the SCK•CEN Academy website, published about three weeks after the training course
• the free participation to the Topical Day on October 26, 2017

Participation to the training course for lecturers, SCK•CEN and EC-JRC Geel collaborators is free of charge.

You can register by clicking on the orange registration button above until October 9, 2017, taking into account the availability of 25 places. Cancellation with total refund is only possible until October 10, 2017.

Registration for the Topical Day is also open via this site.

Your registration is only final when you have made your payment by creditcard or bank transfer. You can use our E-terminal application (https://go.app.sckcen.be/eterminal) for paying by creditcard, or you can transfer the money to our bank account IBAN BE37 6790 0619 1428 of SCK•CEN, Herrmann Debrouxlaan 40, B-1160 Brussels. Name and address of the bank is BPOST, Centre Monnaie, B-1000 Brussels (SWIFT BIC-code PCHQBEBB). Please make sure that the payment should be made net of all bank charges and commission. Please indicate "TD IRMM" and your name on the bank transfer.

The training course is held at the SCK•CEN Lakehouse in Mol, Belgium.

Rooms can be booked directly via the Lakehouse website or via info [at] lakehouse [dot] be.