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Architect Engineering of NPPs
"Steam Generators Replacement and Power Uprate at Tihange 2 power plant", ICONE 10, April 2002, Arlington, USA - Download

"Modernization and safety improvements at Novovoronezh nuclear power plant -3 and -4", Nuclear Europe Worldscan, Jan-Fev. 2001 - Download


Safety analysis

"Simulation of the OECD main-steam-line-break benchmark exercise 3 using the coupled relap5/panteher codes" - Download

"The European HTR-L Project for the Definition of a Safety Approach for HTRs", ENC2002, October 2002, Lille, France - Download

"Thermal Hydraulic and Neutronic Safety Analyses for Steam Generators Replacement and Power Uprate at Tihange 2 NPP", ENC2002, October 2002, Lille, France - Download

"Safety Analysis Programme for Steam Generators Replacement and Power Uprate at Tihange 2 NPP", INAC 2002, August 2002, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Download

"EC Initiatives on Harmonisation of PSA Level 1 Practices within Europe", presented at the IBC conference on "Probabilistic Safety Assessments in the Nuclear Industry" in London - 26-27 November 2001 - Download

"Thermal-hydraulic and neutronic analysis of steam line break accident with coupled RELAP 5 and Panther", proceedings of BE-2000 conference, Washington DC - Download

"Application of a Statistical Thermal Design Procedure to evaluate the PWR DNB Safety Analysis Limits", ICONE 9, April 2001, Nice, France - Download

"Thermal-Hydraulic and Neutronic Analysis of Steam Line Break Accident with Coupled RELAP5 and PANTHER codes", ICONE 9, April 2001, Nice, France - Download

"Identifying measures to balance the risk profile of the Tihange 2 NPP", ICONE9, April 2001, Nice, France - Download


Safety reassessment
"Development of an Owner Engineer's Independent Capability in NPP Safety and Licensing", INAC 2002, August 2002, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Download

"Modernization and safety improvements at Novovoronezh nuclear power plant -3 and -4", Nuclear Europe Worldscan, Jan-Fev. 2001 - Download


Plant Life Management
"Reactor pressure vessel steels embrittlement at very high neutron doses" - Download

"Life management of the primary circuit equipment of Belgian nuclear units" - Download

"Plant Life Management in Belgium: an integrated project", ICONE9, April 2001, Nice, France - Download


Severe accident management
"Severe accident simulation for NPP operators training and for emergency planning exercises", Nuclear Europe Worldscan, Jan-Feb. 1999 - Download


Fuel handling services
"Optimise safety and reduce time of reactor core loading", TopFuel 2001, Stockholm - Download


Core management

"Perspectives on a limited burnup extension for Belgian PWRs", Bulgaria, 26-28 September 2006 - Download

"Core loading and burnup optimization", Physor 2000, Pittsburg USA - Download

"In depth analysis of the in-core measurements", Physor 2000, Pittsburg USA - Download

"Comparison of WIMS/PANTHER calculations with measurement on a range of operating PWR", Physor 2000, Pittsburg, USA - Download


Core monitoring

"Core monitoring and assitance to operation in Belgian NPPs", Physor 2000, Pittsburg USA - Download


Spent fuel management

"Latest developments about spent fuel management in Belgium", April 2006 - Download

"Latest developments about spent fuel management in Belgium", presented at the 2001 ICEM 8th International Conference on Radioactive Waste management and Environmental Restoration, September 30, 2001 to October 4, 2001 - Download

"Spent fuel management in Belgium", published in Nuclear Europe Worldscan, May-June 2001 - Download

see also Belgatom seminar page


Neutronic analyses
"Calculation of ex-core detector responses" - Download

"Radiation shielding evaluation during handling and storage of spent fuel dry casks at Doel", Topfuel 97, Manchester, UK - Download


Radwaste Management - Belgian key players

"Belgian co-operation with the Czech Republic, Hungary, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia", presented at the 2001 ICEM 8th International Conference on Radioactive Waste management and Environmental Restoration, September 30, 2001 to October 4, 2001 - Download

"Belgian Low & Intermediate Level Waste Management", presented at the 2001 ICEM 8th International Conference on Radioactive Waste management and Environmental Restoration, September 30, 2001 to October 4, 2001 - Download


Radwaste minimization and characterization

"Calculation of activations in PWR strucures" - Download

"Radioactive Waste Characterization in Belgium", INAC 2002, August 2002, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Download

see also Belgatom seminar page


Radwaste treatment and conditioning

"The HRA/Solarium project : Processing of widely varying high- and medium-level waste", WM’03 Conference, February 23-27, 2003, Tucson, AZ - Download

"Radwaste streams treatment and conditioning in Belgium", INAC 2002, August 2002, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Download

see also Belgatom seminar page


Radwaste final disposal
"Low Level Waste Conceptual Design Adaptation to Poor Geological Conditions", WM’02 Conference, February 2002, Tucson, USA - Download

see also Belgatom seminar page


Decontamination and decommissioning of nuclear facilities

see Belgatom seminar page


Civil works
"Instrumentation and monitoring of Belgian containments", OECD-NEA workshop on the instrumentation and monitoring of concrete structures, 22-23 March 2000, Brussels, Belgium - Download


Power plant systems engineering
"SuperCritical Light Water Reactor (SCLWR) with Intermediate Heat Exchanger (IHX)", ICAPP Paper 7124 - May 2007, France - Download

"CFD prediction of hydraulic effects on external ultrasonic flowmeters", ICONE14-89513 - July 2006, Florida, USA - Download

"Actions taken in the Belgian Nuclear Power Plants for the Resolution of the GSI-191" - Download

"The role of European Industry and the contribution of the Belgian Industry to the fusion development programme" - Download

"Hydrogen distribution in ventilated room - Technical meeting in PISA november 2002" - Download

"The European HTR-L Project for the Definition of a Safety Approach for HTRs", ENC2002, October 2002, Lille, France - Download

"High Temperature Gas-cooled Fission Reactors, a solution for energy supply in the next decades ?", presented at the International Conference AIM-2001 Power Generation and Sustainable Development, Liège, October 8 and 9, 2001 - Download

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