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T. Ohnishi et al., have recently reported the identification of 45 new neutron-rich isotopes produced by the in-flight fission of a ²³⁸U beam at 345 MeV/nucleon.
The experiments have been carried out at the RI Beam Factory at the RIKEN Nishina Center. Fission fragments were analyzed and identified by using the superconducting in-flight separator BigRIPS. The authors observed 45 new neutron-rich isotopes: ⁷¹Mn, ^74;74Fe, ⁷⁶Co, ⁷⁹Ni, ^81;82Cu, ^84;85Zn, ⁸⁷Ga, ⁹⁰Ge, ⁹⁵Se, ⁹⁸Br, ¹⁰¹Kr, ¹⁰³Rb, ^106;107Sr, ^108;109Y, ^111;112Zr, ^114;115Nb, ^115;116;117Mo, ^119;120Tc, ^{121;122;123;124}Ru, ^{123;124;125;126}Rh, ^127;128Pd, ¹³³Cd, ¹³⁸138Sn, ¹⁴⁰Sb, ¹⁴³Te, ¹⁴⁵I, ¹⁴⁸Xe, and ¹⁵²Ba.

China’s first fast reactor became critical at 9:50 hrs on Wednesday July 21, 2010. The reactor technology is based on the use of liquid sodium as coolant. This is an important milestone for China’s nuclear programme and indeed for nuclear programmes worldwide.
China plans to build up to 60 new reactors and have a nuclear power productivity of around 75 GW (gigawatts) 2020.

Nucleonica will be on display at the European Research & Business Speed Dating event on 6th July in Turin. This event is organised in the framework of ESOF2010, Euroscience Open Forum, the biennial pan-European meeting dedicated to scientific research and innovation. ESOF2010 will take place from the 2nd to the 7th of July in Turin.

Taking advantage of this big international event, the Torino Chamber of Commerce and Unioncamere Piemonte are organising a brokerage event aiming to facilitate the cooperation opportiunies between Research & Bussiness throught planned bilateral meetings. This event is organised in the framework of the Enterprise Europe Network, the largest European network of contact points providing information and advice on EU matter to improve innovation and competitiveness of European companies and in particular of SMEs .

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The one to one meetings are primarily aiming at encouraging the building of consortia to participate to projects co-financed by the 7 Framework Programme (FP7), the main financial tool to support research and development activities in Europe. The brokerage event is a unique opportunity for companies, research centres and universities to meet potential partners for research projects, cooperation agreements and technology transfer.
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Once again, the Nucleonica team will contribute to the Gamma Spectrometry Course at KIT in Karlsruhe in October 2010. This course is part of the “STRAHLENSCHUTZ: Analytik und offene radioaktive Stoffe”.
Course description

On 6th of July 2010 the Nucleonica Web Portal and the Karlsruhe Nuclide Chart will be presented to the students of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) at the Institute exhibition of Fakultät für Maschinenbau. Both products will be exhibited along with presentations from eight different research institutes involved in nuclear science.
The purpose of this event is to give the students information on trainee positions, research fellowships, etc. and provide an overview of research activities in the field of nuclear science. This is a good opportunity for Nucleonica team to present itself to the students and to demonstrate a research approach based on the modelling and computing.
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The Education Training and Knowledge Management working group of the Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform (SNETP) has endorsed Nucleonica as a leading online resource in the nuclear sciences.

On the SNETP website, the description given is…
JRC’s Nucleonica Nuclear Science Portal is an innovative professional and technical resource for hands-on nuclear science education, for the EU nuclear industry. Nucleonica provides a customisable, integrated environment and collaboration platform, using the latest internet “Web 2.0” dynamic technology.
A unique feature of Nucleonica is its “electronic knowledge objects” (EKO’s) which cover web-based scientific applications, online wiki, blog and forums. These knowledge objects are particularly suitable for E&T of young scientists, engineers and technicians, as well as KM in the nuclear field.
Link to SNETP website

An extract of the Karlsruhe Nuclide Chart has appeard on the front page of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – a leading German newspaper. The chart extract was shown in connection with extending the lifetime of nuclear plants – a hotly discussed topic in Germany.

The Working Group on Education, Training, and Knowledge Management of the SNETP (Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform) has just published a flyer describing its activities. This is available for download on the SNETP website under “Activities/ETKM”.
It can also be found here under under “Publications / Strategic Documents”

The ENC 2010 Transactions are now available online. Papers can be downloaded at:
http://www.euronuclear.org/events/enc/enc2010/transactions.htm;
The Nucleonica paper can be found here…
NUCLEONICA: A PLATFORM FOR ORGANISATIONAL
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN THE NUCLEAR DOMAIN

This 5th Marcoule practical summer school, interfacing chemical, physical and biological sciences, will focus on Analytical innovation in the field of actinide recycling, particularly:
i) the scientific aspects of actinide recycling (extraction, solvents, radiolysis, modelling, implementation of processes…);
ii) present or prospective developments in analytical techniques (chips, hyphenated techniques…).
The program is organised with a series of introductory lectures giving the state of the art in actinide recycling and prospects, and also in analytical innovations in the field of life science, applicable to chemistry. Two half-day sessions will be devoted to more specific lectures on these two topics.
Two lectures will focus on basic knowledge of actinides, such as actinide chemistry and the chemical thermodynamics of solid solutions.
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