European Summer School : Radiation Measurements and Radiochemistry in Environment and Decommissioning

1 juil. 2024, 15:00 → 5 juil. 2024, 17:00 Europe/Paris

Auditorium Carnot (Faculty of Physics and Engineering)

Abdel-Mjid NOURREDDINE (IPHC), Lu LIU (IPHC)

This European Summer School will be organised from 1 to 5 July 2024 by the Faculty of Physics and Engineering of the University of Strasbourg in collaboration with the Institute for Nuclear Waste (INE) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

The school is open to young post-doctoral researchers, doctoral candidates and master's students in physics and chemistry.

Registration, accommodation and meals will be free of charge.

Experimental works ESS_July 2024.pdf

List of participants ESS2024.pdf

List posters ESS2024.pdf

List posters ESS2024.pdf

Scientific program ESS2024 last.pdf

lundi 1 juillet

15:00 → 17:00 Registration

Registration for the school

17:00 → 18:00 Welcome reception

Prof. Abdel-Mjid NOURREDDINE and Dr. Lu LIU

mardi 2 juillet

09:00 → 09:30 Welcome Reception

Présidents de session: Prof. Abdel-Mjid NOURREDDINE (IPHC), Prof. Luc HEBRARD (PHI), Rémi Barillon (Unistra)

09:30 → 10:30 Lecture 1 : Radioactivity, friend or foe of life on earth?

Radioactivity, friend or foe of life on earth?

Orateur: Dr Vincent BRETON (Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont-Ferrand)

Talk ESS2024_Breton.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break and Posters session

11:00 → 12:00 Lecture 2 : From polonium to nihonium – radiochemical research at the Paul Scherrer Institute

Orateur: Patrick Julian STEINEGGER (Paul Scherrer Institut/ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Talk ESS2024_Steinegger.pdf

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 Lecture 3 : Radiation damage studies: fuels and actinides compounds

Orateur: Dr Thierry WISS (JRC, Karlsruhe, Germany)

Talk ESS2024_Wiss.pdf

14:30 → 15:30 Lecture 4 : Chemical decontamination of metallic waste and measurement of radionuclides

Orateur: Dr Tomo SUZUKI (Subatech Laboratory, Nantes, France)

Talk ESS2024_Suzuki.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break and Posters session

16:00 → 17:00 Lecture 5 : Characterization methodologies and management of radioactive waste at CERN

Orateur: Dr Nabil MENAA (CERN , Genève, Switzerland)

Talk ESS2024_Menaa.pdf

17:30 → 18:30 Welcome reception at the Hotel de Ville Strasbourg

mercredi 3 juillet

07:30 → 09:00 Bus to Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - Institute for Nuclear Waste

09:30 → 09:45 Welcome at INE: Welcome at INE and Introduction

Président de session: Prof. Horst GECKEIS (KIT-INE, Karlsruhe, Germany)

09:45 → 10:30 Lecture 6 : Research towards radioactive waste disposal at KIT-INE

Orateur: Horst GECKEIS (KIT-INE, Karlsruhe, Germany)

10:30 → 11:15 Lecture 7 : Accelerator Mass spectrometry (AMS) for radionuclide analysis

Orateur: Dr Francesca QUINTO (KIT-INE, Karlsruhe, Germany)

11:15 → 12:00 Lecture 8 : Decommissioning of nuclear facilities

Orateur: C. KRAUSS (KIT-TMB, Karlsruhe, Germany)

12:00 → 12:15 Transfer INE - Casino

12:15 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 14:00 Transfer Casino – KARA

14:00 → 17:00 Visit: Synchrotron based X-ray spectroscopic characterization of radionuclides

Orateur: Dr J ROTHE (KIT-INE, Karlsruhe, Germany)

jeudi 4 juillet

09:30 → 10:00 Welcome and presentation of IPHC Laboratory

Orateurs: Prof. Sandrine COURTIN (IPHC, Strasbourg University, France), Prof. Shinji TOKONAMI (Hirosaki University, Japan)

10:00 → 11:00 Lecture 9 : Radioactive aerosol metrology, pollutant transfer and measurement

Orateur: Dr Grégoire DOUGNIAUX (IRSN, Saclay France)

Talk ESS2024_Dougniaux.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:30 Lecture 10 : Gamma-ray spectrometry for environmental radioactivity analysis

Orateur: Dr Anne DE VISMES (IRSN, Orsay France)

Talk ESS2024_De Vismes.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 18:00 Experimental work (Institut Pluridsicplinaire Hubert Curiien)

Exp works.pdf

20:00 → 22:00 Evening entertainment: Tartes Flambées

vendredi 5 juillet

09:00 → 10:00 lecture 11 : Radiological emergency: how the radiological situation is determined, with a focus on aeroradiometric measurements in Switzerland.

Orateur: Dr Cristina PORETTI

Talk ESS2024_Poretti.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee break and Posters session

10:30 → 11:15 Lecture 13 : Radionuclide speciation and transfers in the environment: recent research in radiochemistry and new perspectives from multidisciplinary approaches.

Orateur: Dr . Mirella DEL NERO (IPHC, Strasbourg, France)

Talk ESS2024_Del Nero.pdf

11:15 → 12:00 Lecture 12 : Dismantling of Strasbourg research nuclear reactor

Orateur: Prof. Benoit GALL (IPHC Strasbourg University, France)

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Lecture 14 : Report of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation

Orateur: Dr Jing CHEN (, Chair of UNSCEAR, former head of the Radiological Impact Section at the Radiation Protection Bureau of Health, Ottawa, Canada)

Talk ESS2024_Chen.pdf

15:00 → 16:30 Oral Presentation of experimental works

Exp 1.pdf

Exp 2.pdf

Exp 3.pdf

Exp 4.pdf

Exp 5.pdf

Exp 6.pdf

Exp 7.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Closing of the European Summer School

Registration for the school with Mme Monique Dell at the Faculty of Physics, 3-5 rue université, 67000 Strasbourg