Post Conference Technical Visits
Visit the the National Centre for Nuclear Research in Otwock-Świerk (30 km away from Warsaw)
The technical visit will take place on Thursday 13 October 2016. Departure with the buses from the conference venue, Sofitel Warsaw Hotel at 8.00 am.
The National Centre for Nuclear Research was launched on September 1st, 2011 by merging The Institute of Atomic Energy POLATOM and The Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies
The National Centre for Nuclear Research is a research and development institution engaged in scientific research, development and applied studies in physics and technology of nuclear reactors, condensed matter physics and material engineering, application of nuclear techniques in environment and health protection, ecology, nuclear safety, health physics and nuclear spent fuel management. The Institute operates the only Polish research nuclear reactor MARIA that is employed in production of radioactive, isotopes, modification of materials with nuclear radiation and studies with neutron beams.
08:00 |
departure by bus from hotel |
08:45 |
arrival in Swierk in National Centre for nuclear Research (NCBJ) |
09:00-10:00 |
Visit in Research Reactor “Maria” |
10:00-13:00 |
Visit the Radioactive Waste Management Disposal, Department of Physics Accelerators and Department of Education and Training |
13:30-14:30 |
Lunch |
14:30 |
departure to hotel |
We will arrive at the hotel approximately at 15:30
Additional post-conference visit: The unique visit to the Warsaw Filters
The Drinking Water Treatment Station, also known as „Warsaw Filters”, is the oldest and the largest water facility in Warsaw. It was constructed in 1886 and since that moment The Station has incessantly been delivering water for Warsaw citizens.
The Warsaw Filters were established thanks to the efforts of the Mayor of Warsaw - a Russian General Sokrates Starynkiewicz. The construction project of the facility was prepared in 1876 by an eminent British engineer – William Lindley.
The Warsaw Filters water station is one of few Warsaw’s facilities which were not completely destroyed during The Warsaw Uprising in 1944. The main buildings, designed by Lindley as a pressure tower, a pump station, a boiler house, slow filters and clean water reservoirs, survived World War II and some of them are working even today.
In 2012 The Warsaw Filters were declared a monument of history.
The visit in Warsaw Filters will be held on 13th October at 10:00 am and it will take 2 hours.
organised under the patronage of the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Poland
