16. Section Nuclear Technologies
- Globalization of nuclear research and development
- Nuclear knowledge management
- International nuclear technology transfer
- Nuclear risks management and quality assurance
- Radio-active waste management and transportation
- Ecological and environmental impacts of nuclear energy
- Energy security and risk assessment
- Ecological economics applied to nuclear energy
- Nuclear policy and legislative framework
- Investment in nuclear technology
- Project management
17. Section Renewable Energy Sources and Clean Technologies
- Power and renewable energy systems
- Solar technologies and applications
- Wind power plants (wind farms): economic and environmental impacts.
- Geothermal energy and technologies
- Waste-to-Energy
- BioEnergy - BioGas and BioFuels
- Hydrogen and fuel cell technologies
- Energy efficiency and management
- Applied electrochemistry and modern electrochemical power sources
- Advance technologies in Batteries and Energy Storage
- Photoelectrochemical Systems, Lead-Acid and Alkaline Accumulators
- Project management
18. Section Recycling
- Recycling of industrial wastes (metallurgical, mechanical, chemical, of a power plant, after mining and mineral processing activities, food industry)
- Recycling of municipal refuse, hospital, agricultural, and radioactive wastes
- Recycling of spoils and demolition waste
- Recycling of car wrecks
- Recycling of plastics
- Recycling of other wastes
- Introducing new technologies for electronic processing
- Alternative processing of tail wastes with the aim of maximum recycling and/or reclaiming
- Project management
19. Section Air Pollution and Climate Change
- Sources of air pollution and dispersion of the pollutants.
- Emissions of heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants
- Emissions of gases affecting the Earth’s climate system. Global Warming
- State of the ozonosphere (stratospheric ozone) and ozone layer protection
- Air pollution, monitoring and prevention. Modeling of air quality
- Carbon capture, storage and reduction
- Urban air management
- Effects of air pollution on ecosystems
- Climate change and variability: causes and consequences
- Climate change vulnerability, mitigation and adaptation
- Climate change monitoring and modeling
- Climatology
- Project management
