What is the nature of nuclear risk? What happened in Chernobyl and Fukushima? What lessons have to be learned? On Tuesday, 12 April, Viktor Poyarkov of Kyiv State University will speak about the balance between benefit and risk and what has to be done for a safer future.

In many countries nuclear technology is seen as one of the increasingly important solutions for meeting rising energy demands, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, mitigating climate change, and counterbalancing fluctuating prices of fossil energy sources. At the same time the disasters of Chernobyl and Fukushima demonstrate the high risk associated with nuclear reactors.

Viktor Poyarkov studied physics at Kyiv State University and obtained a PhD at the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna. Since 1997 he has been the executive director of the European Centre of Technological Safety based in Kyiv. Poyarkov is an expert on the analysis and development of legal regulations in risk management and emergency prevention, in particular concerning nuclear technology, and authored more than 300 scientific papers.

Poyarkov’s lecture is part of the series “Grandes conférences” of the University of Luxembourg, in cooperation with the Amis de l’Université du Luxembourg.

• When? Tuesday, 12 April at 5.30 pm
• Where? Campus Limpertsberg, BS 1.03