​Each year, IRSN hosts PhDs in its research units in the various disciplines of the Institute. The recruitment for PhDs starting in October 2018 in open. The final selection of topics and candidates will take place in May-June 2018.

​IRSN publishes a report that summarizes the various investigations it conducted following the detection in October 2017 of Ruthenium 106 in France and Europe.

IRSN develops and publishes elements of approaches to enhance nuclear safety, security and the protection against ionizing radiation. The first documents published today address the digital instrumentation and control design and the “practical elimination” approach of accident situations.

​On the day of the Franco-British Summit held on January 18, 2018, between President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Theresa May, the French and British ministers in charge of energy met to discuss nuclear energy cooperation.

Ruthenium 106 has been detected by several European networks involved in the monitoring of atmospheric radioactive contamination, at levels of a few milliBecquerels per cubic meter of air. 

IRSN has therefore undertaken investigations since October 3, 2017 to carry out an in-depth assessment of the measurements of ruthenium levels in the territory and to identify the possible origins of the situation encountered.

Ruthenium 106 has been detected by several European networks involved in the monitoring of atmospheric radioactive contamination, at levels of a few milliBecquerels per cubic meter of air.

So far, IRSN calculations, based on the concentration levels measured in several European countries and on the meteorological conditions of the last few days, seem to indicate that the contamination air could have been generated from southern regions of Ural or located close to those. IRSN is continuing its investigations to try to confirm the origin of this atmospheric pollution.