New Research Training Group at TU Dresden on the Dismantling of Power Plants
With the support of Dornier Nuclear Services and PreussenElektra, the TU Dresden has launched the Research Training Group (GK) "Sustainable Decommissioning of Power Plants - Challenges and Solutions for Technology, Environment and Society".
The GK Sustainable Innovative Decommissioning (SIDEC) promotes young scientists in the context of studies on the sustainable disposal of power plant facilities. It will officially start in the summer semester of 2023 and will deal with the five cross-cutting themes of
1. industrialisation,
2. measurement and analysis technologies,
3. sustainability in disposal and recycling,
4. occupational safety and radiation protection, and
5. process rationalisation and digitalisation from the dismantling of nuclear power plants.
will be dealt with. Within these topics, five doctoral projects will be initiated, two of which will be supervised by professors from the Institute of Construction Management at TU Dresden. The doctoral students will work both at the TU Dresden and in the respective companies and will be scientifically supervised by professors from the faculties of civil engineering and mechanical engineering. PreussenElektra is funding two positions, three are supported by Dornier Nuclear Services.
Prof. Antonio Hurtado, spokesperson for the Research Training Group at TU Dresden, sees the new Research Training Group as the blueprint for interdisciplinary training of young researchers. "We are looking forward to the cooperation with PreussenElektra and Dornier Nuclear Service and appreciate this financial support, especially at this time."
Uwe Altmann, Head of Innovation and Long-Term Decommissioning Planning at PreussenElektra, adds: "In our day-to-day work, we can only do limited scientific work ourselves. We therefore hope that the research work will lead to the further development of key technologies for dismantling and innovations in areas that are important for us. Of course, we also want to train specialists here and retain them."
Dr Anton Anthofer for Dornier Nuclear Services emphasises: "We are pleased to have the opportunity, on the one hand, to let the scientific expertise of the doctoral students flow into our current dismantling projects, and on the other hand, to be able to give them practical experience as well."
The two professors of the Institute of Construction Management, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Jehle and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing. Jens Otto, are co-supervisors of two doctoral projects on the topics of "Industrialisation" and "Sustainability of Waste Disposal". In the context of the overarching task, this addresses particularly construction-related topics that focus on the transfer of know-how into practice and aspects of sustainability.
Contact person for the Research Training Group
Technische Universität Dresden
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Antonio Hurtado
Holder of the Professorship for Hydrogen and Nuclear Energy Technology
E-mail: antonio.hurtado@tu-dresden.de
Contact at the Institute for Construction Management
Technische Universität Dresden
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing. Jens Otto
Director of the Institute and holder of the Chair of Construction Management
E-mail: baubetriebs@mailbox.tu-dresden.de