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MYRRHA

General profile

MYRRHA, is a highly innovative and multidisciplinary research infrastructure allowing:

  • Testing and developing the transmutation of long-lived and highly radiotoxic nuclides in spent fuel to significantly reduce their volume (by a factor of 100) and radiotoxicity duration (from hundreds of thousands of years to a few centuries – a factor of 1,000).
  • Serving as an Experimental and Technological Test Platform for SMR technologies, particularly those based on HLM technology
  • Conducting materials R&D for current and future nuclear fusion and fission reactors
  • Ensuring the production of innovative medical radioisotopes that are crucial for cancer therapy
  • Providing a multifunctional accelerator for fundamental and applied research.

MYRRHA

Website
Address
Address
Rue d'Egmont 11,
1000 Bruxelles,
Belgium
Contact person
Contact person
Prof. Dr Hamid Aït Abderrahim
E-mail