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Activities of the national YG network for the time period given: 2006/2007

IYNC 2006

It was possible that a group of 8 people from Switzerland (3 of them supported by the Swiss academy of technical science) attend the IYNC 2006 with contributing 5 papers (3 of them coming from the YG Project 2005). The whole conference was a great experience for the Swiss participants and all of them got the “YG spirit”.

The two major outcomes from this conference for SGK-YG were:

1. having new candidates for Swiss YG board;

2. winning the bid for hosting next IYNC 2008 in Interlaken, Switzerland (20.-26. September 2008)

Autumn Excursion to FRM II Munich, Germany

Instead of an autumn meeting an excursion to the FRM II neutron source in Munich was organized. This 1.5 days trip was started with a special guided tour in the “Deutsches Museum” which consists of general and nuclear physics, electricity production and transmission as well as nuclear science. On the second day the neutron source FRM II of the technical university Munich was visited. Even if it was only a small Group of 6 participants the whole event was a success related to the education and the networking.

Spring meeting in the Mühleberg NPP

On April 13^th, the SGK-YG held its annual spring meeting. Young employees of Swiss nuclear facilities met in the Mühleberg NPP to learn and talk about safety of supply with new NPP's in Switzerland. Main topic was a look into the economics of power plants and how decisions are made in big electricity companies. Long and fruitful discussions were completed by a visit of the simulator of NPP Mühleberg. Alexandra Homann, the YG Chair since 2004, retired and Marco Streit was elected as Chair, Andre Fassbender as Vice-Chair.