The ENS High Scientific Council lives again!

The ENS High Scientific Council

As a federation of learned societies, the European Nuclear Society is to have a generic scientific production. The High Scientific Council (HSC), which advises the European Nuclear Society, is an instrument for this production. The HSC has been recently renewed: 17 volunteers, scientists of high repute, have been recently nominated by the ENS Board.

The disciplines represented in the HSC include different science fields, related to the use of nuclear technologies, among them Physics, Biology, Medicine and Engineering. The list of members is available on the ENS website.

The main tasks of HSC are:

• To critically review the current situation of science and technology in the fields of interest for ENS,

• To initiate discussion on certain issues and to propose position statements,

• To advise the ENS Programme Committee on ENS-sponsored Conferences issues.

The HSC met in Brussels recently to discuss its future actions. It has been proposed to produce a position paper after each topical meeting organised by ENS. This paper will synthesize the highlights of the conference and the trends in the scientific and technical domain under consideration, and will be dispatched via all appropriate channels available to ENS.

The first of these position papers deals with research reactors. It has been produced on the occasion of the RRFM 2008 conference. The next one will deal with education and training, and will be produced on the occasion of the Nest ET conference in Budapest in May 2008.

The author hopes that with this new action, this revived High Scientific Council will be instrumental in promoting the European Nuclear Society!

Dr Bernard Bonin Société Française d’Energie Nucléaire Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique Direction de l’Energie Nucléaire Direction Scientifique Bernard.bonin@cea.fr +(33) 1 69 08 16 75

High Scientific Council position paper on Research Reactors