The second edition of the Jules Horowitz Reactor (JHR) Advanced School will take place from 13 – 17 October 2025 in Marseille, France.

The Jules Horowitz Reactor (JHR) Project began more than thirty years ago, with a plan to build a modern Materials Testing Reactor (MTR) which would expand the diminishing international infrastructure for investigating radiation effects in materials of all kinds. From the outset, the JHR was developed within a broad European partnership, which later expanded into a wider international collaboration.

Over the years, JHR Consortium Members, through dedicated Working Groups, have fostered the growth of a large research community focused on identifying ways in which JHR can be used to meet the needs of research, development and industrial activity.

The JHR Advanced School is a short but intensive educational event to introduce MTRs to a new audience.

The objective of the 2nd edition organised by UNIBO, AMU, CEA, the JHR consortium and CONNECT-NM is to engage and prepare young researchers, encouraging them to explore the opportunities offered by future JHR experimental activities and to ensure their results are organised and presented to the maximum benefit of the whole nuclear community.

Event topics include:

• MTR evolution and the JHR Project
• Goals for the coming decades: nuclear material and fuel qualification, ageing, incidental conditions
• The JHR and related technologies
• Computational and modelling tools
• From theory to experiment and instrumentation in a MTR environment: problem setting and problem solving
• Experimental data organisation and management as a continuous learning activity
• Case studies

The trainees will have the opportunity to interact with members of three JHR working groups on fuels, materials and technologies, as well as to visit the JHR construction site at CEA Cadarache and the Joint LIMMEX Lab (AMU-CEA-CNRS) at AMU.

The deadline to apply is 31 July 2025.

Learn full information here.