
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:
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To critically review the current situation of science
and technology in the fields of interest for ENS,
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To initiate discussion on certain issues and to propose position statements,
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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!

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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