Vuoden 2017 viimeinen tiedekahvila 14.12.
Vuoden 2017 viimeinen tiedekahvila järjestetään torstaina 14.12 klo 17 lähtien Ranskan instituutissa (Yrjönkatu 36, 3. kerros). Tiedekahviloiden tavoitteena on tuoda säännöllisesti yhteen Suomen ranskalaisen ja ranskankielisen tieteellisen yhteisön, mahdollistaa uusia tapaamisia osallistujen välillä ja keskustella yhteistyöhankkeista mukavassa tunnelmassa.
Tilaisuuteen on vapaa pääsy. Jos tahdot osallistua, ilmoittaudu sähköpostitse: mathieu.leporini@france.fi.
Nicolas Faucher, researcher at the Centre of Excellence of reason and religious recognition of the Academy of Finland, is a doctor of philosophy from the École pratique des hautes études and the Università degli Studi di Bari. Specialized in medieval philosophy, he focuses more particularly on the philosophical foundations of religious beliefs, the subject of his doctoral thesis rewarded by a Chancellerie prize. In the framework of a long-term associative commitment, he also tackles the problem of radicalization in contemporary societies.
According to popular belief, catholic religious belief is, in the Middle Age, an authoritarian injunction and not a free choice. However, if they indeed defend the condemnation and severe punishment of heresy, medieval catholic theologians attach considerable importance to the freedom of belief, condition under which the act of faith is authentically virtuous. His intervention will be dedicated to the study of this paradox.
In 2012, she obtained a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Grenoble, which she carried out at the Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety Institute (IRSN) in Cadarache, France. The study focused on the understanding of iodine behavior in the primary circuit of a nuclear reactor during a serious accident. She then joined VTT Oy., the Technical Research Centre of Finland. Since then, her research focuses on the experimental study of the transportation and the chemistry of fission products in the situation of an accident.
She will explain why the research conducted in VTT (but also on an international level) is focusing specifically on the behavior of iodine and ruthenium. She will describe the “methodology” used to study the behavior of fission products with the aim to reduce uncertainties regarding the assessment of the source term. She will then introduce the transportation of fission products from the reactor core to the containment chamber, the mitigation system and the phenomenons studied at VTT.