The ETSON Award
The ETSON network has decided to annually reward papers written by a team of young scientists from different Technical Safety Organisations (TSOs) and the EUROSAFE members by offering ETSON Awards, to be officially presented and attributed at the next EUROSAFE Forum or ETSON conference. ETSON’s Junior Staff Program aims to enable young engineers and researchers from TSOs to get to know each other better, to improve their technical knowledge through international collaboration, and to develop their own European network of safety experts, in order to strengthen the cooperation among TSOs.
The next ETSON Award 2025
Are you a junior researcher or engineer in the field of nuclear safety or radiation protection? Apply for ETSON AWARDS!
The topic should focus on activities of the ETSON members, such as safety assessment and research, radiation protection or radioactive waste management and should help improve the understanding and development of these topics.
The ETSON award amounts to €6500 in total, to be shared amongst the winner(s) or the winning group(s). The best contribution of study or research that, which advances safety and radiation protection, will be honored with €3000 and the second-best with €2000. The last three participants will be honored with 500€ each.
The prizes will be awarded during the science slam session at the ETSON Conference, organized by Britain TSO RSD, taking place from October 13-17 in Manchester, United Kingdom, the exact date of the award ceremony will be determined later.
Application, rules and deadline
Submit your application by 18th July 2025 following the rules.
• The complete paper
• The Authors impact Justification
• The Authors Declaration
• The short CV of the authors
Contact: etson.award@grs.de
The ETSON Award 2024
Last year, the final phase of the ETSON Awards, the Science Slam, was held during the 2024 IAEA TSO Conference, organize in Vienna.
The five finalists presented papers of the following topics :
- Comparative Numerical and Experimental Study of Taylor Bubble Dynamics in Counter-Current Flow – JSI
After the presentations, audience members had the opportunity to vote for their favorite candidates and finalize the scores for the ETSON Awards 2024.
Mr Michel Van haesendonck, ETSON vice-president, TSO Forum president and TSO Conference vice-president, awarded the second prize “2000 EUR” to Annesha Das and her team from PSI , for its papers on Effect of surface state of Alloy 182 weld metal on stress corrosion cracking initiation in high temperature high pressure water
Mr Jean-Christophe Niel, ETSON president and president of TSO Conference president, awarded the first prize “3000 EUR” to Louise Darricau and her team from IRSN , for its paper on tracking radioactive contaminants in the environment at the micro/nano scale through isotope geochemistry.
Additionally, this year the ETSON Board, on the recommendation of the Junior Staff Program, decided to award the other three finalists an honorary prize of 500 EUR each in recognition of their contributions to improving nuclear safety and radiation protection.
They both thanked the IAEA for giving ETSON the opportunity to organize this event at the TSO Conference. They also stressed that, as always with the ETSON Awards, the papers and presentations were all of the highest quality, and scientifically very enriching.
The ETSON Award 2023
2023, four teams participated in the final phase. A Science slam was organized At BEL V in Brussels by the "Junior Staff Program" on October 11nd .
Participants and winning papers
The first prize is obtained by Jonathan Zert from GRS Germany) with his team cooperating for their work „Joint Modelling of VVER-1000/320 Containment Specifics for Simulating Pressure Build-Up: A COCOSYS Study“.
The second prize is obtained by David Bouhjiti from IRSN (France) for the work “Digital twining to assess the performance of aging nuclear concrete containment buildings”.
Bálint Batki from ER-CER (Hungary): “Characterization of spent fuel directly from measured gamma spectra using deep learning”
Michel Saliba from PSI (Switzerland): “Measuring neutron noise in a research reactor using a 3D core mapping system”
The ETSON Award 2022
2022, five finalist teams were selected. A Science slam was organized At Filmtheater Sendlinger Tor in Munich by the "Junior Staff Program" on October 11nd .
The first prize is obtained by Mouheb Chebbi from IRSN (France) with his team cooperating with C. Monsanglant-Louvet from IRSN (France) and D. Doizifrom CEA (France) for their work “Retention of radioactive methyl iodide in the context of nuclear industry: on the quantification of isotopic exchange contribution inside activated carbons”.
The second prize is obtained by Silvia lo Muzio and Armin Seubert from GRS (Germany) for the work “Verification of the SP3 Solver in FENNECS with C5G7 Test Cases using HELIOS Cross Sections”.
Mr. Michel Van haesedonck (Vice-President of ETSON and Director General of BelV) congratulated the winners and the other teams for the high scientific level and quality of their work.
ETSON’s Junior Staff Program aims to enable young engineers and researchers from TSOs to get to know each other better, to improve their technical knowledge through international collaboration, and to develop their own European network of safety experts, in order to strengthen the cooperation among TSOs.