The Winners 2010
2010 year’s prize ceremony was held at the annual SKC convention in Uppsala. In the beautiful setting of Rikssalen in the castle of Uppsala, Professor Jan Blomgren, head of SKC, presented the diplomas and prize money to the two winners Dr. Andreas Enqvist, Chalmers for the best Ph.D. dissertation with 50 000 SEK and Mr. Paul Bramson, KTH for the best Master thesis with 25 000 SEK.
Winners 2010: Andreas Enqvist and Paul Bramson
Dr. Enqvist was awarded the prize for his dissertation "Safeguards: modelling of the Detection and characterization of Nuclear materials" and the motivation is as follows:
"This outstanding dissertation is the result of an original investigation through the safeguards methods and tools. The multiplicity theory is revisited and extended to combination of neutron and gamma rays, and the use of neural networks. An analysis of the scintillation light pulses generated by fast neutrons serves as a basis for the modelling of organic scintillation detectors. The theoretical tools developed are successfully used for measuring coincident neutrons and gamma rays using fast scintillation detectors. The thesis opens new perspectives in the determination of characteristics of nuclear materials. The nine attached papers form a consistent and impressing set towards the objectives of the thesis. The quality of the presentation is optimum: the objectives, the methods, the results, the conclusions, suggestions for future work are clearly explained,. Everything is clear and pleasant to read: text, equations, figures."
Paul Bramson was awarded the prize for the thesis "Transmutation Strategies – a Swedish Perspective" and the motivation is as follows:
"The oldest nuclear power plants in Sweden are approaching the time when they have to be replaced. In this master thesis future scenarios for nuclear power in Sweden are studied, taking both economical and environmental aspects into account. Different reactor concepts are compared, including fast reactors and accelerator driven systems, with the focus on reducing the amount of radioactive waste. The thesis is well written and of considerable current interest."
Previous winners
MSc category
2009: Petty Bernitt Cartemo, Nuclear engineering, Chalmers University of technology
2008: Andreas Carlson, Nuclear Power Safety, KTH
2007: Andreas Oskarsson, Nuclear and Reactor Physics, KTH
2006: Simon Walve, Reactor Technology, KTH
2005: Henrik Lindgren, Reactor Technology, KTH
2004: Dereje Shiferaw, Nuclear Power Safety, KTH
PhD category
2009: Åsa Henning, Nuclear physics, Lund University
2008: Olivia Roth, Nuclear Chemistry, KTH
2007: Carl Sunde, of Nuclear Engineering, Chalmers
2006: Marcus Eriksson, Reactor Physics, KTH
2005: Staffan Jacobsson Svärd, Nuclear and Particle Physics, Uppsala University
2004: Christophe Demazière, Reactor Physics, Chalmers
