European Nuclear Society
e-news Issue 33 Summer 2011
http://www.euronuclear.org/e-news/e-news-33/sne-news.htm

On June, the 2011 Technical Session of the Spanish Nuclear Society (SNE), entitled: The Implementation of the Regulations for Industrial Safety in Nuclear Power Plants, took place in the presence of Lola Morales, President of the SNE, Ignacio Mosso, President of AEGIC and Alberto Bernárdez, President of ASEICAM.

The 37th Annual Meeting that will be held from 28 - 30 September 2011 in Burgos is already open for registration. All the relevant information about the meeting is available at: www.reunionanualsne.es.

The ICAI-SNE Joint Conference, which was held at the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, on 12 April 2011, was this year dedicated to: A National and International Overview of Nuclear Energy - a subject that, given current circumstances, is of particular relevance. Miguel Garcia Duvison, Operations Director at Red Eléctrica de España, gave a presentation entitled: The Contribution of Power Generation Technologies to the Safety of Supply in the Spanish System. Manuel Ibáñez Giner., Nuclear Energy Director of UNESA, then spoke about The Spanish Nuclear Power Stations: News and Perspectives. Finally, Juan Ortega Delgado, Business Development Director at TECNATOM, gave a presentation entitled: Nuclear Energy International Prospective. After the presentations there was a colloquium.

Young Nuclear Generation is actively promoting education and training for young people. It delivered its Annual Seminar on Advanced Reactors at the ETS of Industrial Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and its Basic Course of Nuclear Science and Technology at the Polytechnic Center of the University of Zaragoza.

The SNE has maintained its role as spokesperson for nuclear sector professionals, using press releases published on its website to keep members and anyone else interested in the evolving post-Fukushima situation informed about what is going on there and about resulting international action. Some of its members have further maintained this informative role by explaining in a comprehensible way to the general public - via the media - the events as they were unfolding.

Nuclear España, the monthly magazine of SNE that has been published in Spanish and English since 1984, devoted its edition N° 317 to the winter conference entitled: Nuclear Power Plants in 2010: Experiences and Perspectives.

SNE will shortly hold its annual competition for the allocation of 5 scholarships to the value of € 3,000 to students who meet the requirements mentioned in the call for entrants, namely to enrollment themselves in a Master's and/or postgraduate degree course in nuclear science and technology. All the relevant information is posted on SNE’s website at www.sne.es.

The SNE website also contains a glossary of nuclear terms in Spanish that is growing constantly. It is a useful reference tool for members of the nuclear sector.

© European Nuclear Society, 2011