Abstract
The European Nuclear Experimental Educational Platform – ENEEP is currently being established by five European educational and research organizations in the framework of a Horizon 2020 project, initiated in 2019. The ENEEP partner institutions are the Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI, Slovenia), the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU, Slovak Republic), the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU, Czech Republic), Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien, Austria) and the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME, Hungary). ENEEP is intended as an open educational platform, offering experimental hands-on education activities at the ENEEP partner facilities. ENEEP education activities will be offered in different formats (group and individual) and are targeted at university students at all educational levels and young professionals in the nuclear field. This paper gives an overview of the ENEEP project activities and the progress achieved thus far, highlighting the experimental capabilities which will be offered. In the first implementation phase, ENEEP will be based on a comprehensive set of experiments comprising the basics in Reactor Physics and Nuclear Engineering curricula, as well as more specific experiments focusing on particular aspects – investigated phenomena, types and working principles of detectors, etc. Subsequently, novel education activities will be introduced and implemented in ENEEP, following scientific development in nuclear science and technology and nuclear instrumentation detectors, stemming from research activities. Attention will be devoted to the development and optimization of remote education capabilities at the ENEEP partner institutions, of particular relevance during the current Covid-19 pandemic, which is responsible for major changes in education activities worldwide.
Highlights
EDUCATION activities in nuclear science and engineering are mainly based on theoretical lectures and exercises supplemented by modelling of real or simplified reactor systems by various computational codes
Research reactors in general are suitable for education activities at all academic levels, in nuclear engineering, and in various non-nuclear engineering studies, such as power engineering, electrical engineering, natural sciences, medical sciences, physical sciences, etc
Four ENEEP institutions, namely CTU, TU Wien, BME, and JSI established in 2009 a Group Fellowship Training Program on Research Reactors which has been running under the Eastern European Research Reactor Initiative (EERRI)
Summary
EDUCATION activities in nuclear science and engineering are mainly based on theoretical lectures and exercises supplemented by modelling of real or simplified reactor systems by various computational codes. Computer modelling is slowly replacing real experiments and, at most European universities, teaching of nuclear engineering is supplemented by the performance of only few basic experiments in radiation laboratories This fact is very natural, as computer modelling is inexpensive compared to real experiments and it can be implemented into academic curricula without the need for complex laboratories requiring high operation costs and human resources. The ENEEP platform will offer access opportunities to nuclear experimental facilities for university students at all academic levels (bachelors, masters and doctoral), professors, lecturers, experts in nuclear education, etc It will allow specific nuclear training of professionals, young professionals and post-docs at the beginning of their professional career, staff from governmental and non-commercially oriented companies, such as regulatory bodies, governmental organizations dealing with various aspects of peaceful use of nuclear energy, research institutions, etc.
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