New Year Meeting KIVI-Nuclear Technology and Netherlands Nuclear Society andGeneral Assembly of Members KIVI-NT

Friday 2 February 2024 - KIVI building, Prinsessegracht 23, The Hague

Programme:

12:30 pm - Walk-in

13:15 - KIVI Nuclear Technology General Members' Meeting

14:30 - Presentation Jadwiga Najder and Mattia Baldoni (Nuclear for Climate): Retrospective on COP28

15:15 hrs - Coffee break

15:45 - Presentation F. Kingma (UU) and M. Kleemans (UvA): Life and work of J. Robert Oppenheimer

16:30 - Drinks

The KIVI-NT General Assembly is open to members of KIVI Nuclear Engineering, patrons of NNS and patrons of Nuclear Vision. During the meeting, only members of KIVI Nuclear Technology have voting rights.

Concerning the presentation by Jadwiga Najder and Mattia Baldoni of Nuclear for Climate (N4C):

Nuclear for Climate is a grassrootsinitiative (www.netzeroneedsnuclear.com) that took shape in 2015 following the COP21 conference in Paris. It brings together more than 150 associations, professionals, scientists and enthusiastic volunteers from around the world with the aim of educating policymakers and the public about nuclear energy and promoting its use as one of the possible solutions for the energy transition. During COP28, N4C pushed for greater use of nuclear technology to achieve climate goals. Jadwiga Najder and Mattia Baldoni were present there and look back at COP28 and their experiences and successes....

Regarding the presentation by M. Kleemans and F. Kingma, Life and work of J. Robert Oppenheimer:

Summer 2023, a fascinating film was released on the life of Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who spearheaded one of the most important developments of the 20th century: the atomic bomb. Oppenheimer was brilliant but controversial, and his creativity changed the face of physics. In the US, he has a status comparable to Einstein's, but in the Netherlands he was not very well known until recently. Remarkable, because Oppenheimer had strong ties to our country, as part of his scientific education took place in Leiden and Utrecht.

The lecture will focus on different aspects of Oppenheimer's personality: his work and his thinking, the projects he worked on and the people involved. It will cover physics and nuclear weapons, geopolitical history and radiation risks, as well as his cultural interests in literature and philosophy.

Kingma and Kleemans' book on Oppenheimer, Splinters of the Sun, will be on sale after the lecture. Upon request, it will be signed by both authors.