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Training programmes

Twice a year, the JRC offers paid traineeships in a multi-disciplinary research environment. The traineeship sessions generally start in March and October of each year and run for a fixed period of 5 months.

The Additional Protocol Exercise (APEX) training allows participants to practice a complementary access verifying absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities at nuclear sites and installations.

The JRC hosts an international biennial Summer School on non-animal approaches in science for post-graduates and early-career scientists, sharing knowledge on cutting-edge non-animal methods, promoting their use in research and regulation, and exploring related career paths.

Seals are used in nuclear safeguards to verify a nuclear material inventory instead of directly checking the material itself. It can save time and effort especially in difficult environments like spent nuclear fuel pools.

The Karlsruhe Nuclide Chart (KNC) provides scientists and students nuclear data on 4,122 experimentally observed ground states and isomers; most recent values of the atomic weights, isotopic abundances and cross sections.

The objective of the course is to prepare nuclear safeguards inspectors for inspections of accountancy tanks, where the existing tank calibration must be verified.

The JRC hosts an international biennial Summer School on non-animal approaches in science for post-graduates and early-career scientists, sharing knowledge on cutting-edge non-animal methods, promoting their use in research and regulation, and exploring related career paths.