Andreas Mortensen and Andreas Pautz from EPFL,with Mikahil Chudakov, IAEA Deputy Director General (right) after signing the cooperation agreement, Vienna, 12 June 2019.
The International Atomic Energy Agency has designated EPFL as one of its worldwide Collaborating Centers. On 12 June 2019, EPFL was officially designated as a Collaborating Centre of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in the fields of open-source data and code development for nuclear applications. The IAEA is the world's central inter-governmental forum for scientific and technical co-operation in the nuclear field. It works for the safe, secure, and peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology, contributing to international peace and security and the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. For its work, the IAEA won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. The IAEA endorses the EPFL for spearheading the creation of an international network of industries and research institutions that will develop an advanced, open-source simulation platform for the analysis of nuclear reactors. "This will be a unique opportunity to work on a major paradigm shift in the nuclear sector towards open, collaborative, and efficient R&D," says Carlo Fiorina, the main initiator of this activity and a researcher at EPFL's Laboratory for Reactor Physics and System Behavior , headed by Professor Andreas Pautz.
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