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NOMAD related PhD topic open at SCK•CEN

One of the strategic research programs at the NMS Institute within SCK•CEN is related to radiation damage of existing reactor pressure vessel materials. The reactors of Gen-II/III are being operated worldwide in the perspective of long term operation (LTO), typically 60 years or even 80 years for th...

NUGENIA is now SNTEP

NUGENIA Association was transformed to become SNETP Association. This year, NUGENIA Association evolved and extended its scope to formally become SNETP Association (AISBL): an international non-profit association under the Belgium law, ratified by the royal decree WL22/16.102 on September 2019 and s...

New open position at SCK•CEN in the field of Nuclear materials for Gen II / III reactors.

Make your mark as Research Engineer (material science)

• conduct, follow-up and improve mechanical testing and irradiation programmes executed within different scientific research and commercial projects; including testing, evaluation, reporting and planning.
• be able to work autonomously after a...

Results on novel magnetic non-destructive testing method published by MTA-EK

The non-destructive characterization of the embrittlement of reactor pressure vessel (RPV) steels is being performed on standardized Charpy specimens in an increasing degree. The novelty of the work described by the NOMAD partner MTA-EK in the open access article 'Magnetic nondestructive inspection...

NOMAD at 'NDE in Nuclear 2019' conference

As part of the NOMAD consortium Daniel Algernon and Sascha Feistkorn from SVTI as well as Esa Leskelä and Tuomas Koskinen from VTT attended the international conference 'NDE in Nuclear 2019' in North Carolina, USA from 25 to 27 June 2019.

The conference organized by EPRI (Electric Power Research I...

Mid-Term Meeting for NOMAD Consortium at Fraunhofer-Forum in Berlin, Germany

Two years after the launch of the project, the NOMAD partners came together for their second Progress Meeting in Berlin from 17-18 June 2019. The meeting was hosted by the coordinator Madalina Rabung and her colleagues from Fraunhofer. The main objective of this two-day meeting was to kick off one o...

NOMAD presented at FISA-EURADWASTE ’19 Conference held by the European Commission

The European Commission is co-organising FISA '19 (Euratom conference on FIssion SAfety of reactor systems) and EURADWASTE ’19 (conference on radioactive waste management and geological disposal) with the Ministry of Research and Innovation of Romania and the Institute for Nuclear Research under...