European Atomic Energy Society Working Group Meeting

Lisbon, Portugal, 28. 11. - 1. 12. 2018

The European Atomic Energy Society (EAES) is an organization founded in 1954 and brings together European research organizations in the field of nuclear energy. The current most important function of the EAES is the exchange of information on nuclear research guidelines in the home countries of organizations. The EAES consists of the Council (member from the IJS is prof. dr. Leon Cizelj) and the Working Group (member from the IJS is doc. dr. Ivo Kljenak). The working group also has also a separated two-day meeting each year, usually in November or December.

On the first day of the Working Group meeting, mainly the next Combined meeting of the Council and the Working Group was prepared, which will be held from 1 to 5 June 2019 in Munich (Germany), organized by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. At that session the following topics will be discussed:

    experience in the decommissioning of the research reactors;

    the use of the nuclear technology in the medicine;

    how to maintain knowledge in the field of nuclear energy in Europe.

On the second day of the meeting, we visited a laboratory of the following units at the IST Tecnico Lisboa Institute, a member of the University of Lisbon:

    Institute of Systems and Robotics

    Institute for Plasma and Nuclear Fusion

At the meeting we also discussed the issue of countries from which there are no EAES member organizations. We have found that it is particularly important to convince representatives of organizations to attend EAES meetings at least once. After the first participation at the meeting, representatives of organizations discover the benefits of EAES membership and regular meetings attendance.

The meeting of the European Atomic Energy Society Working Group, held in Lisbon, Portugal, on 29th and 30^th of November 2018, was organized by the Portuguese Institute IST Tecnico Lisboa. It was attended by dr. Ivo Kljenak from the IJS Reactor Engineering Divison.