The Fundació CTM will analyze the behavior of high-level radioactive nuclear waste

The Fundació CTM, Centre Tecnològic de Manresa, which is part of Tecnio - the only network that promotes technology transfer and innovation in business in Catalonia - has signed a collaboration agreement with the company Enresa and the European Atomic Energy Community (European Atomic Energy Community) represented by the Institute of elements Transuranics (ITU)located in the German city of Karlsruhe (Germany).

This collaboration of 5-year agreement, aims to investigate in the laboratories of the ITU (Karlsruhe), the behavior of the nuclear waste of high activity so that they can be managed with the maximum security conditions.

The management and analysis of the behavior of the nuclear waste will allow increasing the knowledge about nuclear waste, in particular on spent nuclear fuel. This knowledge is essential in order to ensure the security of the future final storage of waste of high activity (deep geological stores) that you will be installing in the European countries that have nuclear power. The results will be handled jointly by the three institutions.

There are no specialized laboratories that allow this type of study in Spain, for this reason that at the moment, a researcher of the Fundació CTM Centre Tecnològic is located in the German city of Karlsruhe to carry out such an investigation. In addition, a team of researchers from the Fund. CTM collaborate in the project from the Catalan city of Manresa.

This project is of great importance to the Fundació CTM Centre Tecnològic, insofar as it is situated to the Center and its professional teams in first line in the research of high-level radioactive nuclear waste. The team of the Fund. CTM Centre Tecnològic will be led by Dr. Joan de Paul Ribas, scientific director of the area of environmental technology and Professor at the UPC and a team of researchers to work from the Fund. CTM, from which were dealt with the results obtained in the laboratories of the ITU, in order to obtain models that can predict the behaviour of long-term spent nuclear fuel.