Jules Horowitz Reactor (JHR) Advanced School

The second edition of the Jules Horowitz Reactor (JHR) Advanced School is set to take place
at Aix-Marseille University (AMU, Campus St. Jérôme, Filière Instrumentation) in Marseille (France) from 13– 17 October 2025.

The JHR Material Test Reactor project, currently under construction, aims to provide the essential means needed to test the behaviour of materials and fuels under irradiation in order to support current and future nuclear reactors.

In this light, the JHR Advanced School aims to introduce Materials Testing Reactors (MTRs) to a new audience and engage and prepare young researchers to explore the future opportunities offered by the JHR.

This second edition of the JHR Advanced School is organised by:

UNIBO, AMU, CEA, the JHR consortium and CONNECT-NM.

School topics:

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

The trainees will also have the opportunity to interact with members of three JHR working groups on fuels, structural 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.

Learn more about the school and the application procedure thanks to the flyer and the website.