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At a ceremonial meeting of the CTU Scientific Board in the Bethlehem Chapel today, one of the two Rector´s awards for outstanding PhD theses in 2017 was presented to RNDr. Ing. Petr Distler, PhD et PhD, an FNSPE researcher, for his PhD dissertation entitled Study of Extraction Systems for Lanthanoids and Minor Actinoids Partitioning. The study is a part of a European project whose aim is to close the nuclear fuel cycle. In other words, the project focuses on the reprocessing of nuclear waste from fission reactors. This procedure will facilitate nuclear waste processing and will also considerably shorten the period during which nuclear waste in a deep geological repository may be.

Last summer, the ALICE collaboration welcomed fifteen students coming from all over the world, who joined the CERN Summer Student Programme. They spent between eight and ten weeks at the laboratory, following a busy schedule of lessons, workshops and hands-on projects. We talked with some of them about this experience and their impressions about it.

SMR 2019 conference is already 5th in a row and this year will deal with possible non-electric applications of small modular reactors. Especially in the Czech Republic, the sustainability of local lignite heating plants is appearing to be problematic in the long-term horizon.

The end of year 2018 has marked the approval by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of one of the biggest projects of the present day of the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU), namely the establishment of the Centre of Advanced Applied Sciences – CAAS. One of the main goals of the project coordinated by the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineerng of the CTU in Prague (FNSPE) is to integrate fundamental and oriented research in various scientific disciplines and to create an excellent environment for interdisciplinary research.