The Laboratory

Nuclear Power Plants are important sources of energy. In Switzerland, they cover around 40 % of the consumption of electricity. Together with hydro power, the electricity supply of the country is almost independent from imports and nearly free of CO2 emissions.

The laboratory offered lectures for students of mechanical engineering to specialize in nuclear technology, like the courses "Nuclear Energy Systems" and "Nuclear Reactor Safety". A external page master course in co-operation with the EPF Lausanne in nuclear engineering is available. Interested students could accomplish their semester internship, bachelor and master theses in the Laboratory of Nuclear Energy Systems.

The laboratory performed research in a close co-operation with the external page Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in the field of single- and multi-phase flows in nuclear power installations. Beside applied topics, studies of fundamental thermal fluid-dynamic phenomena were part of the research activities. The in-house development of novel measuring techniques was an important issue. Large-scale experiments were performed at the PANDA containment test facility of the Laboratory of Thermohydraulics in PSI. The experiments aid developing and validating codes for three-dimensional computational modelling (CFD).