EuNPC2015

Hazardous TRan-Uranic elements obtained by spent nuclear fuel can be transmuted to shorter half-life radioisotopes comparing before transmutation. Different scenarios are planned to transmute the TRUs in critical or subcritical reactor cores. Transmutation such radiotoxic elements can be considered via spallation process using charged-particle induced through a TRU target. In the present work,...

Ion implantation is a powerful tool for the modification of polymers. The studied materials contain a mixture of diglycidylether of bisphenol A (DGEBA) and monoglycidylether terminated poly(dimethylsiloxane) (GE-PDMS) or diglycidylether terminated poly(dimethylsiloxane) (DG-PDMS) in 98/2 wt.% reinforced with 10 wt.% POSS-octa(3 glycidyloxypropyl)dimethylsiloxy) (OEP-POSS). The presence of Au...

Hundreds of cement factories use online bulk material analyzers to improve their quality control for both raw material and kiln feed, and reduce their variability. The most used technology for online analysis is Prompt Gamma Neutron Activation Analysis (PGNAA), with 252Cf as the neutron source. Cost and short half-life of the 252Cf neutron sources are the main problems in cement industry....

Great advances have been made in recent years in the use of nuclear physics techniques to study, characterize and preserve cultural heritage artefacts. The Nuclear Physics Division of the European Physical Society is currently producing a topical paper to bring this work to the attention of a wide non-specialist audience. This talk will outline the scientific background and reasons for this...