The gender pension gap, the difference in pension entitlements between men and women, is 32 percent for 60-yearolds according to data from the German Pension Insurance (Deutsche Rentenversicherung). In addition, there is a considerable motherhood pension gap: Statutory pension entitlements for...

An increasing number of countries and institutions are investing in large-scale research infrastructures (RIs) and in basic research. Scientific discoveries, which are expected thanks to RIs, may have a non-use value, in analogy with environmental and cultural public goods. This paper provides,...

Building the Large Hadron Collider (1995-2008) required frontier technologies. We wanted to discover whether there has been a long-term "learning by doing" effect on CERN suppliers' profitability, beyond the initial order. The evidence on this effect was until now fragmentary, mainly based on...

This report lists the JRC existing Infrastructures for research on the fields of nuclear safety, nuclear security and nuclear safeguards. These infrastructures are located in the four JRC sites were nuclear research is being carried on: Institute for Transuranium Elements in both sites of...

This report lists the JRC existing Infrastructures for research on the fields of nuclear safety, nuclear security and nuclear safeguards. These infrastructures are located in the four JRC sites were nuclear research is being carried on: Institute for Transuranium Elements in both sites of...

An international workshop, funded by the JRC's Enlargement and Integration Action, took place in Prague in 2005 entitled "Requirements for BNCT at a Nuclear Research Reactor". The intention of the workshop was to exchange knowledge between the EU BNCT programme at the HFR Petten (EC, NL) and...

With a declining number of nuclear data evaluators in the world and an increasing demand for high-quality data, there is a risk that evaluators will concentrate on producing new nuclear data to the detriment of developing new models and methods for evaluating existing data. In this context, it...

With a declining number of nuclear data evaluators in the world and an increasing demand for high-quality data, there is a risk that evaluators will concentrate on producing new nuclear data to the detriment of developing new models and methods for evaluating existing data. In this context, it...

Hydrogen has the potential to play an important role as a sustainable and environmentally acceptable energy source in the 21st century. However, hydrogen does not exist as a gas on earth and thus has to be produced from, for example, water or natural gas by different separation techniques. One...

Alors que l’humanité bénéficie aujourd’hui de nombreuses applications des technologies nucléaires, une inquiétude croissante se fait jour dans de nombreux pays de l’OCDE quant à la diminution des enseignements et des formations dans le domaine nucléaire, dont le niveau pourrait...