Evening Lecture – Decommissioning a nuclear installation? Yes we can!
The BR3 project was selected in 1989 as European pilot decommissioning project. This pilot project concerned the decontamination and dismantling of a pilot PWR plant. Several techniques of dismantling (and decontamination) were developed and tested in real scale on actual active materials, representative of future commercial NPP dismantling. At the same time the main principles of waste and material management were set up for dealing with the large amount of material to be treated after decommissioning a nuclear power plant.
The lecture will show the large experience acquired in various cutting technologies and waste/material management as well as the specific radioprotection and safety aspects attached to decommissioning activities.
The BR3 team continues developing tools and techniques for the complete decommissioning of plants, including software for the follow up of materials and radwaste, methods to deal with contaminated and activated concrete, process and principles to completely free release installations and partial facilities, etc. With such a very long experience of the domain, the dismantling team is ready for further developments and to help prepare and perform decommissioning in the safest and most economical way.
Speaker
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Vincent MassautVincent Massaut graduated as MSc in Engineering, electro-mechanics and nuclear engineering, from the University of Liège (1982), He has spent most of his career at the SCK CEN in Mol (Belgian Nuclear Research Center). Before his retirement in December 2022, he was Deputy Director Business Development & Support at SCK CEN, that included aspects of waste & decommissioning, fusion & fission material research, space R&D, medical applications, radioprotection, to cite a few. Before that, he was Director of the fusion technology research at SCK CEN (2007-2014) after having spent 2 years at EFDA in Garching (Germany) as officer Safety & Environment. He was also member of the F4E Technical Advisory Panel (TAP). In his first years, he was active in decommissioning, as Project Manager of the BR3 (PWR 11 MWe) European pilot decommissioning project. He was also Chairman of OECD/NEA WPDD for 1 year and a member of various international expert committees on decommissioning (EC, IAEA, OECD/NEA, US-Academy). He is currently Chairman of the Board of Framatome Belgium SA. He is the author of numerous papers and lectures on Decommissioning Nuclear facilities and on Fusion technology, materials, radwaste management and safety. Vincent was also Chairman of the Belgian Nuclear Society from 2017 till 2021, period where we celebrated our 50-years anniversary.