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Education & Training
 Belgium
Research Institutes and Laboratories
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SCK•CEN – Belgian Nuclear Research Centre
The SCK•CEN research activities are concentrated into three scientific institutes that each study a specific field of nuclear applications: Nuclear Materials Issues, Advanced Nuclear Systems and Environment, Health and Safety.
The education and training activities of SCK•CEN are coordinated by the SCK•CEN Academy for Nuclear Science and Technology.
Bachelor, Master, and PhD students have the opportunity to perform their research works at the nuclear laboratories. On a regular basis, final-year Bachelor or Master students visit SCK•CEN and are guided by our researchers in their dissertation work. In addition, initiatives are taken towards high school pupils (guided thematic visits) and teachers (update on nuclear topics and provision of certain illustrations)
Next to the guidance of young researchers, the SCK•CEN Academy collaborates with several Belgian and foreign universities and contributes to academic learning.
In addition, the SCK•CEN Academy offers customized training courses for professionals in a broad range of nuclear topics such as nuclear engineering, materials issues, radiation protection, emergency management, decommissioning, waste and disposal issues, radiation biology, -ecology, -chemistry, etc. All courses are tailored to the needs of the trainees in terms of programme, duration, level, language (Dutch, French or English), location, etc.
- Cyclotron Research Centre at Louvain – la – Neuve
The main activities of the CRC can be classified in two categories:
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Research and development in the field of particle accelerators, ion sources and their applications
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Production of accelerated ion beams for nuclear physics, chemistry, medicine, isotope production, and technological applications
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The Nuclear and Radiation Physics Section at the KU Leuven
At the “Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica”, embedded in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, one of the five departments of the Faculty of Science of K.U.Leuven, fundamental research of matter on the femto- and nanometer scale (nuclear physics / solid-state physics with nuclear methods) is performed.
The institute provides education and training in the bachelor-master program in physics (specializations: nuclear physics and solid-state physics), in the master program on medical radiation physics and on materials engineering and in the post-graduate program in radioprotection.
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The Division of Nuclear Medicine of KU Leuven and University Hospital Gasthuisberg
The Division of Nuclear Medicine provides university, higher level and postgraduate education in:
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Laboratory for Plasma Physics of the Royal Military Academy
The laboratory is conducting experimental and theoretical research on plasma physics and fusion energy in the framework of the Association EURATOM-Belgian State for thermonuclear fusion. The expertise of the Laboratory for Plasma Physics is concentrated primarily in the domain of Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating (ICRH).
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Fluid and Plasma Dynamics of the Free University of Brussels
The group has research activities in many domains of fluid and plasma physics. Analytical, modelling and numerical techniques are developed to study both fundamental and applied problems in fusion plasma physics, conductive fluid flows and turbulence.
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National Institute for Radioelements (IRE)
IRE produces radioelements used in nuclear medicine for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. The R&D department has research activities in radioelement production, environmental protection and radioactive waste management.
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