Prof.
Walter Kutschera
(Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator (VERA), Faculty of Physics – Isotope Research, University of Vienna, Austria)
19/04/2010, 03:00
Radionuclides in the Environment, Radioecology
Verbal
The advancement of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) some 30 years ago opened the possibility to detect long-lived radionuclides (both natural and man-made) through isotopic abundance measurements down to a level of ~10-16. It thus became possible to explore our world atom by atom in almost every section of the environment at large. Worldwide there are about 80 facilities in...
Dr
J.-P. Glatz
(European Commission, JRC, Institute for Transuranium Elements, P.O. Box 2340, 76125 Karlsruhe, Germany)
19/04/2010, 03:30
Chemistry of Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Radiochemical Problems in Nuclear Waste Management
Verbal
To comply with the sustainability goals defined for innovative reactor systems, a waste minimization through recycling of all actinides is required and can be realised using a so-called Partitioning and Transmutation (P&T) concept inherent to the reactor systems. It is obvious that the corresponding fuel cycles will play a central role because an efficient and selective recovery of the key...
Dr
Frans De Corte
((em.) Ghent University and Research Foundation-Flanders)
19/04/2010, 04:00
Nuclear Analytical Methods
Verbal
Recently plans were devised [IAEA CRP 2005-2009: “Reference Database for Neutron Activation Analysis”] for creating and publishing a library of k0-factors that are generated differently from the experimentally determined ones published and used in practice thus far [ADNDT, 85 (2003) 47]. For two reasons, we look at this anxiously. Firstly, when realizing that these “new” k0-factors will be...