The ETSON Award
The ETSON network has decided to annually reward papers written by a team of young scientists from different Technical Safety Organisations (TSOs) and the EUROSAFE members by offering ETSON Awards, to be officially presented and attributed at the next EUROSAFE Forum or ETSON conference. ETSON’s Junior Staff Program aims to enable young engineers and researchers from TSOs to get to know each other better, to improve their technical knowledge through international collaboration, and to develop their own European network of safety experts, in order to strengthen the cooperation among TSOs.
The next ETSON Award 2024
Are you a junior researcher or engineer in the field of nuclear safety or radiation protection? Apply for ETSON AWARDS!
The topic should focus on activities of the ETSON members, such as safety assessment and research, radiation protection or radioactive waste management and should help improve the understanding and development of these topics.
The ETSON award amounts to €5,000 in total, to be shared amongst the winner(s) or the winning group(s). The best contribution of study or research that, which advances safety and radiation protection, will be honored with €3,000 and the second-best with €2,000.
The prizes will be awarded within the science slam session during the next IAEA TSO Conference in Vienna, 2-6 December 2024.
Application, rules and deadline
Submit your application by 31st August 2024 following the rules.
• The complete paper
• The Authors impact Justification
• The Authors Declaration
• The short CV of the authors
Contact: etson.award@grs.de
The ETSON Award 2023
2023, four teams participated in the final phase. A Science slam was organized At BEL V in Brussels by the "Junior Staff Program" on October 11nd .
Participants and winning papers
The first prize is obtained by Jonathan Zert from GRS Germany) with his team cooperating for their work „Joint Modelling of VVER-1000/320 Containment Specifics for Simulating Pressure Build-Up: A COCOSYS Study“.
The second prize is obtained by David Bouhjiti from IRSN (France) for the work “Digital twining to assess the performance of aging nuclear concrete containment buildings”.
Bálint Batki from ER-CER (Hungary): “Characterization of spent fuel directly from measured gamma spectra using deep learning”
Michel Saliba from PSI (Switzerland): “Measuring neutron noise in a research reactor using a 3D core mapping system”
The ETSON Award 2022
2022, five finalist teams were selected. A Science slam was organized At Filmtheater Sendlinger Tor in Munich by the "Junior Staff Program" on October 11nd .
The first prize is obtained by Mouheb Chebbi from IRSN (France) with his team cooperating with C. Monsanglant-Louvet from IRSN (France) and D. Doizifrom CEA (France) for their work “Retention of radioactive methyl iodide in the context of nuclear industry: on the quantification of isotopic exchange contribution inside activated carbons”.
The second prize is obtained by Silvia lo Muzio and Armin Seubert from GRS (Germany) for the work “Verification of the SP3 Solver in FENNECS with C5G7 Test Cases using HELIOS Cross Sections”.
Mr. Michel Van haesedonck (Vice-President of ETSON and Director General of BelV) congratulated the winners and the other teams for the high scientific level and quality of their work.
ETSON’s Junior Staff Program aims to enable young engineers and researchers from TSOs to get to know each other better, to improve their technical knowledge through international collaboration, and to develop their own European network of safety experts, in order to strengthen the cooperation among TSOs.
The ETSON Award 2021
2021, five finalist teams were selected. A Science slam was organized At the EUROSAFE Forum in Paris-Montrouge by the "Junior Staff Program" on November 22nd.
The first prize is obtained by Pietro Maccari from UNIBO (Italy) with his team cooperating with Julie-Anne Zambaux from IRSN (France) and Andrea Bersano from ENEA (Italy) for their work “BEPU analysis of a 2-in DVI break in a generic IRIS SMR by ASTEC – RAVEN coupling”.
The second prize is obtained by Oskari Pakari and Lily Bossin from PSI for the work “The common surgical face mask as emergency dosimeter”.
Mr. Michel Van haesedonck (BelV) congratulated the winners and the other teams for the high scientific level and quality of their work.
ETSON’s Junior Staff Program aims to enable young engineers and researchers from TSOs to get to know each other better, to improve their technical knowledge through international collaboration, and to develop their own European network of safety experts, in order to strengthen the cooperation among TSOs.
The ETSON Award 2020 (online)
2020, four finalist teams (with researchers from LEI, BelV, PSI and IRSN) were selected. A live scientific video slam was organized by the "Junior Staff Program" on November 3. Despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, 80 participants in this event were able to vote for the best presentation.
Participants and winning papers
- Samuel PEILLON (IRSN): From plasma facing components to airborne radioactive dust: A study on the behavior of tritiated dust in fusion reactors. (1st Place)
Paper | Abstract - Audrius GRAŽEVIČIUS (LEI): Comparative study of CFD and 3D thermal-hydraulic system codes in predicting natural circulation phenomena in a small-scale pool test facility. (2nd Place)
Paper | Abstract - Salvatore MIROTTA (IRSN): Utilization of Artificial Intelligence algorithms for Hodoscope measurement interpretations
- Petra MALA (PSI): Verification of the nodal code SIMULATE5 for EPR core modelling