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Created in 2009 at Ecole des Mines in Nantes, this chair brings together the Foundation and the main stakeholders in the nuclear waste sector, namely ANDRA (the French agency for radioactive waste management), EDF and AREVA.Nuclear waste has an extremely long life cycle - several thousands of years - and therefore requires treatment, packing and storage in conditions that ensure both human and environmental safety. The scientific demonstration of the safety of these management solutions is key to ensuring that the nuclear sector is socially accepted. The chair has two aims:
• Teaching to ensure smart skills management in relevant scientific fields through a wide range of training courses provided to future engineers: engineering, international masters, continuing professional development, apprenticeships and PhD programmes.
• Research in nuclear physics and chemistry with the Subatech laboratory, a joint laboratory with Ecole des Mines in Nantes, the French National Institute for Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics (IN2P3) within the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Nantes University. The chair works in three fields: high energy physics, energy and environment, and health. The main topics will include investigating how well materials used for storing nuclear waste can withstand severe conditions such as pressure, radiation and temperature, how various species behave in the various barriers formed by these materials (migration and physico-chemical deterioration), the migration of these species in the environment, and the key role played by the presence of water (radiolysis).
The tenured professor is Bernd Grambow, Professor at the Ecole des Mines in Nantes and director of Subatech's radiochemistry activity. In October 2009 Prof. Grambow was awarded the Ivan Peyches prize from the Academy of Sciences for his work on the corrosion of nuclear waste glass by natural aqueous solutions.
This is the first industrial chair for this school, which has made nuclear research one of its poles of excellence.
Topic:Professorships
