[en] The Neutron Dosimetry Laboratory installed in the Nuclear Engineering Department of the Polytechnic University of Madrid is briefly described. it is the first Spanish Laboratory of this kind. Some basic characteristics and the objectives pursued after its creation are indicated. (Author)

[en] The paper offers a panoramic view of the main steps and targets of the Road map towards restoration of the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, with the main achievements until maintaining a stable cooling and reaching cold shutdown conditions in the reactors, keeping stable cooling of the spent fuel pools, practically stopping all radioactive leakages, managing and reusing huge amounts of contaminated water, cleaning the site and isolating the reactor unit 1. The next phases up to the end of the total decommissioning are also briefly described, including the extraction of fuel from the pools and, much more delicate later operation needed to extract the melted materials from the reactor cores and the rest of highly radioactive debris produced. (Author)

[en] The complex situation posed by nuclear or radiological accidents in inhabited environments required to carefully analyze the different management options to reduce pollution in different areas. in addition to radiological factors taken into account other factors such as cost, the doses received by workers, environmental impact, waste management ... and necessarily must have mechanisms of interaction with stake holders. For all this, in the EURANOS European project they have developed tools to aid the recovery phase. (Author)

[en] Experiences from real accidents like Chernobyl or Fukushima, have demonstrated the importance of a more decentralized management if it is to address the implementation of measures that affect the daily lives of peoples and their properties. This is embodied in the need to engage more directly to regional and local levels, as well as other social partners and affected population in emergency preparedness, and especially, in the recovery phase and post-emergency rehabilitation. In the framework of the European NERIS-TP project, the organization of a national exercise that could help to address structuring and establishment of operational procedures in the planning and response for the recovery phase has been considered. This paper presents the selection and development of the scenarios for intervention that could be used as basis for analysis and joint discussion about the criteria, possibilities and specific alternatives that could/should be considered at local level during the recovery phase in a facilitated table top exercise with the participation of all possible actors involved or affected in case of a real situation. Available resources at European and national level, to model and analyze these scenarios are also present. (Author)

[en] The main result of this paper is the proposal for the addition of new ingredients in the safety analysis methodologies for Generation-IV reactors that integrates the features of probabilistic safety analysis within deterministic. This ensures a higher degree of integration between the classical deterministic and probabilistic methodologies.

[en] The course on “Radioactive Waste Management” has been taught since February 1989, thanks to the sponsorship of ENRESA, and as a result of the collaboration between ETSII-UPM and CIEMAT. In these years the Course has seen more than 900 graduates of different branches related to the management of radioactive waste. The course started as a PhD and postgraduate course, later becoming part of the Master’s Degree in Nuclear Science and Technology of the UPM and the Master in Nuclear Engineering and Applications -MINA- of the Autonomous University of Madrid and CIEMAT. In 2018 it will celebrate its twenty-seventh edition, which undoubtedly constitutes a major milestone in the current panorama of training in the nuclear field.

[en] Basic Radiation Protection training is incorporated in the curriculum of the Energy Technology branch of Industrial Engineers. At the Technical School of Industrial Engineering, Nuclear Engineering Department of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (ETSII-DIN-UPM), this graduation is consisting of ten semesters: five with basic common matters and the last five with specific matters referred to energy Technology. Along the last five semesters, several courses are offering basic matters, and one new course is specifically entitled Radiation Protection. Basic concepts of radioactivity, natural and man-made sources of radiation, interaction of radiation with matter and biological effects caused by radiation are soon introduced. Radiation sources in a nuclear reactor and nuclear safety are extensively studied in the courses on Nuclear Technology and Nuclear Safety Radiation applications beyond energy production are studied in the last semester. The specific Radiation Protection course (45 hours) is included in the seventh semester, with contents covering from quantities and units in radiation protection to dosimetry, shielding, detection and measurement techniques for alpha, beta, gamma and neutrons, aspects of operational radiation protection, assessment of environmental impact, including atmospheric and aquatic dispersion of radionuclides and food chain contamination. Protection against non-ionising radiation is also shortly addressed. The structure of this course and its detailed contents is depicted below. (Author) 5 refs

[en] Organizers of the 11. IRPA International Congress have wished to take advantage of this occasion to launch a new series of books dedicated to review the current important problems of concerns in radioprotection. The four editors have combined their efforts to assemble within this book contributions from the worldwide and most famous specialists in their respective fields. Their signatures lead to the insurance of a first class information. all aspects of radioprotection are treated, through synthetic articles accessible to all. Very didactic, this book will be useful to radioprotection professionals willing to take the stake of all aspects within their profession, but also to engineers, physicists, physicians, researchers, and non-specialist people who will find here a thorough synthesis of all aspects of radiological protection. (author)

[en] Proton radiotherapy or proton therapy (PT) is based on the use of accelerated proton beams up to 230 MeV kinetic energies, to irradiate tumours very precisely. Although the proton therapy is coming to Spain now, with a center planned for the current year 2019 and a second for the year 2020, it is a totally contrasted cancer therapy, in continuous evolution and improvement, with more than sixty years of existence , and more than 90 centers in operation around the world. Proton therapy offers significant advantages in the treatment of certain types of tumours and clinical cases, and completes and extends existing therapies. The new centers in Spain will represent an important alternative for many patients who can benefit from the dosimetric characteristics of proton therapy. From the point of view of radioprotection, the facilities of protonterapia are radioactive facilities of second category, Type III, so its construction and operation must verify the Spanish regulations and accomplish the requeriments of the Nuclear Safety Council, and its shielding must be designed, executed and verified in accordance with the legal rules.

[en] The doctorate course on Radioactive Waste Management was initiated in February 1988, by initiative of the Chair of Nuclear Technology, under the sponsoring of the national radioactive waste management company (ENRESA), in a fruitful collaboration between the Institute Artigas of the Technical School of Industrial Engineering and the Institute of Formation on Energy of the research centre CIEMAT. The course is also offered as a post-graduate through both institutes. After completion of fourteen consecutive editions in 2002, the course constituted a landmark in the field of nuclear education in Spain. The last edition offered, along 35 lessons published in two books, the general aspects of generation, treatment and conditioning of radioactive wastes, the basic Safety and Radiological Protection criteria, the detailed technical questions of the management of both low-intermediate.activity and the high-activity level, together with the wastes generated during decommissioning and dismantling of installations, as well as the general and institutional aspects. Experts in each field, belonging either to ENRESA, CIEMAT, the Nuclear Safety Council, the UPM and the industry, present such wide programme. A technical visit to the low and intermediate radioactive waste repository of El Cabril was also offered to the participants as part of the course, as in previous years the visit to the dismantling workers of Vandellos I NPP. More than 500 engineers and graduates in different science branches have participated in the course along 14 years, with both students and professionals belonging to ENRESA, the Nuclear Safety Council, CIEMAT and other research centers, hospitals, civil protection at different levels, service and engineering companies related with the radioactive waste management. Altogether, it is possible to say, as the title is expressed, that the course has given in these 14 years a high-production yield. (Author)