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SCK•CEN

Studiecentrum voor Kernenergie - Centre d’Etude de l’Energie Nucléaire

SCK•CEN, Foundation of Public Utility, was created in 1952 in order to give the Belgian academic and industrial world access to the worldwide development of nuclear energy.

Since 1991, SCK•CEN’s statutory mission gives priority to research on problems of societal concern, such as: safety of nuclear installations, radiation protection, safe treatment and disposal of radioactive waste, fight agains uncontrolled proliferation of fissile materials and fight against terrorism.

To fulfill its various tasks, SCK•CEN has been provided with a large number of equipment allowing, among others, research on actinides and actinide materials. SCK•CEN’s most important installations are the reactors BR1, BR2 and VENUS, hot laboratories and the underground research facility HADES for the study on the disposal of radioactive waste in clay layers. Furthermore, a new accelerator driven neutron source, MYRRHA, is being designed.

As such, many of SCK•CEN's major projects include studies on the chemistry and physics of the actinides. The main research topics SCK•CEN covers, consist of:

  • waste packages
  • high burn-up and MOX fuel
  • physics and chemistry of actinides in solution
  • geochemistry of actinides in the geological environment

SCK•CEN contributes to the setting of the ACTINET multi-site user facility by pooling a number of nuclearised instruments and hot laboratories for the study of solid-state properties of actinide compounds, solid and liquid thermodynamics and actinide geochemistry.

In addition, SCK•CEN coordinates the Task Group for Use and Dissemination of Knowledge and the external Communication of the ACTINET Network of Excellence.

For more information: http://www.sckcen.be.

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StudieCentrum voor Kernenergie - Centre d'Etude de l'Energie Nucléaire
Boeretang 200
B-2400 Mol
Belgium

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Aimé BRUGGEMAN


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