Safety of currently operating light-water reactors, safety characteristics of future reactor concepts, and long-term safety of deep geological repositories for nuclear wastes are the main research topics at the PSI Center for Nuclear Engineering and Sciences.
Lab News & Scientific Highlights
Predicting component lifetimes in nuclear facilities
For 30 years, experiments have been providing unique insight into how metals and ceramics degrade under high-energy proton bombardment.
POLIZERO: PSI-Projekt zeigt Wege zur Klimaneutralität
Das Netto-Null-Ziel ist erreichbar – wenn die Schweiz jetzt die richtigen politischen Weichen stellt.
Generation IV International Forum (GIF) in Switzerland | hosted by PSI/NES in April 2025
The GIF Technical Secretariat is pleased to inform of the upcoming EG-PG meetings from 7th to 11th April, 2025. This time the host is Switzerland, and the meetings will be organized by PSI's Center for Nuclear Engineering and Sciences.
Spring 2025 | 53rd Expert Group and 59th Policy Group meeting
www.gen-4.org
Upcoming Events
Publications
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Al-Yahia OS, Bernard M, Clifford I, Perret G, Bajorek S, Ferroukhi H
The influence of droplet breakup model on the prediction of reactor core parameters during reflood conditions
Nuclear Engineering and Design. 2024; 416: 112815 (16 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nucengdes.2023.112815
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Albà A, Adelmann A, Münster L, Rochman D, Boiger R
Fast uncertainty quantification of spent nuclear fuel with neural networks
Annals of Nuclear Energy. 2024; 196: 110204 (8 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2023.110204
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Alcayne V, Cano-Ott D, Garcia J, González-Romero E, Martínez T, Rada AP, et al.
A segmented total energy detector (sTED) optimized for (n, γ) cross-section measurements at n_TOF EAR2
Radiation Physics and Chemistry. 2024; 217: 111525 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radphyschem.2024.111525
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