The 2025 edition of the Summer School on Nuclear Decommissioning and Waste Management is organised within the framework of the European Learning Initiatives for Nuclear Decommissioning and Environmental Remediation (ELINDER).

ELINDER aims to raise the interest of students and professionals in the important and emerging field of decommissioning and environmental remediation, and to stimulate career perspectives, by offering learning opportunities that combine theory and practice.

Through classroom training, visits to nuclear facilities and case studies, the 15th edition of the DSS offers insights into the promising field of nuclear decommissioning and related activities, like waste management and radiation protection.

When a nuclear facility ceases normal operations, a multifaceted process starts, including dismantling, decontamination and other activities.

“Decommissioning” means all these steps leading to the release of a nuclear facility from regulatory control.

In the European Union, several nuclear facilities are closed or may stop operations in the coming decade.

The need to proceed with decommissioning creates a potential for new industrial activities.

In this context, the annual Decommissioning Summer School contributes to the acquisition of multidisciplinary competences required to support the emerging decommissioning market.

This is a 5-day learning path that introduces the students to the following subjectsinternational state of the play in nuclear decommissioningradioactivity and radiation protection fundamentalsdecommissioning planning processtechnological aspects of characterisation, decontamination, dismantling and site releasemanagement of radioactive wastesocietal aspects of decommissioningStudents who wish to obtain a course certificate are welcome to sit an optional final test.

You can consult the indicative course programme here.

The detailed programme will be available in April 2025.

17 JANUARY 2025Indicative Programme DSS JRC 2025English(985.

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