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Within the Institute for Advanced Nuclear Systems:

• A "yield" database for the future ISOL @ MYRRHA facility
• Applicability of fracture toughness tests on ductile materials
• Coatings enabling robotic systems in liquid metal for a new generation of nuclear reactors.
• Design of an integrated graphite collimator for PTF targets
• Development of an advanced experimental technique for the measurement of the turbulent heat flux in liquid metals
• Electrochemical measurement of oxygen diffusion coefficient in liquid lead-bismuth eutectic
• Finalizing PhD Study of low Prandtl number heat transfer in the E-SCAPE liquid-metal pool facility (E.Cascioli)
• Investigation of a Hypothetical Core Disruptive Accident scenario in MYRRHA
• Microstructural investigation of interaction LBE with austenitic stainless steel
• Natural circulation cooling into the MYRRHA reactor
• Nucleation, growth and transport of corrosion product oxide particles in non-isothermal LBE systems
• Quantitative Assessment of Corrosion Products Release Rate in Liquid LBE
• Simulation of a "yield station" for the ISOL@MYRRHA facility
• Ultrasound detection of Impurity Particles in Liquid LBE
• Étude de configurations à spectre variable dans le cœur rapide uranium/plomb de la maquette critique VENUS pour l'amélioration des données nucléaires dans le domaine épithermique: design des configurations et analyse de sensibilité.

Within the Institute for Environment, Health and Safety:

• 1. Characterisation and modelling of complex environmental problems / reactive transport modelling
• 2. Characterisation and modelling of complex environmental problems / reactive transport modelling
• 3. Characterisation and modelling of complex environmental problems / reactive transport modelling
• A closer look at brain inhibition and epilepsy following prenatal X-ray exposure
• Advancement of personal neutron dosimetry by establishment of flexible reference simulated neutron workplace fields and computational neutron dosimetry
• Biological oxygen production and air revitalisation for habitats on the Moon
• Carbonation, decalcification and recalcification of Calcium-Silicate-Hydrate
• Chemical and mineralogical characterization of cemented waste samples
• Development of a constitutive law for accurate prediction of time dependent deformation of OPC based cementitious material at elevated temperatures
• External dose rates to comforters from nuclear medicine patients: a detailed computational approach
• HERMMES - Hadron Energy Resolved Measurement using Magnetic Electron Separation
• Immobilizing problematic liquid waste in a cementitious form
• Impact of land use change on the migration of historical radionuclide and heavy metal contamination in riparian soils of the Grote Nete Valley
• Improved deposition modelling based on combining state-of-the-art atmospheric dispersion simulations and numerical weather data.
• Integromics - Towards integration of big biomolecular data to enable systems biology
• Investigation of biomarkers of radiation sensitivity in cancer cells
• Linking the history of radiation biology evolution to the specific historical and current highlights of the radiobiology research at the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK•CEN)
• Multi-scale study of delayed ettringite formation in concrete
• Quantifying 225Ac and its daughter radionuclides in biological samples
• Quantifying the effects of soil and plant characteristics on radiocesium uptake: A global perspective
• Radiation-induced DNA-damage simulation using computational methods
• Risk Governance for Critical Infrastructure
• Speciation and transport of REE in Passive Treatment Systems of the Iberian Pyrite Belt
• Studying the long-term effects of the nuclear Chernobyl accident on a radiosensitive plant, Pinus sylvestris, using a multi-level-omics approach
• Targeted radionuclide therapy as new treatment opportunity against glioblastoma recurrences
• Three Dimensional Flow-field Reconstruction using LIDAR Measurements for Near-Range Atmospheric Dispersion
• Towards preserving cognitive abilities following early postnatal exposure to radiation

Within the Institute for Nuclear Materials Science:

• Assessment of low irradiation temperature effects on hardening and embrittlement of reactor materials using destructive and non-destructive damage evaluation techniques
• Burst rupture properties of thin walled welded tubes in LBE supported by microstructural and micromechanical characterization
• Correlation of tensile and flexural properties of materials for fusion applications
• Development of a MatLab (or Python) user interface for EngInit - A tool for stress corrosion crack initiation evaluation of nickel-base alloys exposed to primary pressurized water reactor environments.
• Development of a new extraction system for selective americium separation from spent nuclear fuels
• Development of a new solvent extraction system for the separation of americium from spent nuclear fuels
• Development of automatic "Help Authoring Tools" generator
• Development of radioactive lanthanide-based nanoparticles for radiopharmaceutical applications
• Development of water-soluble Re-chelating ligands for Re-188 based radiopharmaceuticals
• Development of webparts for the Calculation Office portals
• Fracture mechanisms in environmentally assisted cracking of austenitic steels
• Mechanisms of localized corrosion initiation in liquid metal environment
• Neutron irradiation effects in ITER divertor materials
• Non-aqueous separation process for the purification of the lutetium-177 medical radioisotope
• Probing braneworld scenarios by constraining neutron-hidden neutron transitions in the vicinity of a nuclear reactor through low-noise measurements of the neutron background
• Shape controlled thorium dioxide precipitation routes
• Stability and Morphology of vacancy clusters in MAX phases
• Study of radiation-induced dimensional changes in SiO2.
• Thermal Conductivity evolution of MTR fuels with burnup accumulation
• Uranium speciation and corrosion mechanisms in nuclear fuel materials

Within the Service for External Medical Surveillance:

• Stage voor verpleegkundige op de arbeidsgeneeskundige dienst van het SCK•CEN