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The French-Romanian symposium 'Conservation of the cultural heritage with nuclear techniques’
'The French-Romanian symposium regarding the conservation of the cultural heritae with nuclear techniques’ organised by the Atomic Physics Institute (IFA) in Magurele, the National Institute forNuclear Physics and Engineering ‘Horia Hulube’ (IFIN-HH), the French Commissariat for Atomic Energy (CEA) the French laboratory Arc-Nucleart and the French Institute in Romania takes place on Monday 25 January 2016 at the French Institute in Bucharest, says the press release sent by the French Embassy to Bucharest.
In the opening of the symposium there will speak His Excellency Mr.Francois Saint-Paul, ambassador of France to Romania, MrChristophe Gigaudaut, manager of the French Institute in Romania and Mr Nicolae Zamfir general manager of IFIN-HH. The talks will be moderated by Mr Livius Trache, scientific manager of IFIN-HH and Mr Gerard Cognet, nuclear councillor of CEA.
On the occasion of this event a memorandum will be signed between ARC-Nucleart and IFIN-HH in the domain of conservation of art works through nuclear techniques.
During the symposium there are scheduled several interventions on the theme of heritage restauration supported among others by Anne –Karine Froment, manager at ARC –Nucleart, Laure Meunier Salinas, restaurator ARC –Nucleart,Corneliu Ponta, researcher at IFIN-HH, and architect ?erban Sturdza, chair of the Architects order in România, Bucure?ti.
At the same time, in the context there will be launched the competition ‚ Save together an object from the Romanian cultural heritage’ . The competition is open to any museum or community which presents an object of cultural heritage made out of wood, associated or not with other structural materials, whose state of degration would explain the consolidation and/or restauration procedure in the competence of ARC-Nucleart and IRAAASSSM –IFIN—HH and whose decontamination through iradiation gamma or consolidation though impregnation with in the case of very degraded wood. The prizes offered to the winners of the competion will be the financing of the conservation and restauration works of the presented goods.
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The lab Arc-Nuceart was set up 40 years ago, out of the necessity to answer the needs to conserve historic heritage elements and archeological objects discovered in an archaelogical underwater site ( the Charavine lake, Rhone Alpes). In 1997, it became a group of public interest with cultural purpose at the initiative of several partners – the French state, the Commissariat for Atomic Energy and Alternative Resources (CEA).the Regional Council Rhones-Alpes, the city ofGrenoble, the ProNucleart association.
Set up at the headquarters of the research centre CEA Grenoble, Arc-Nucleart has as mission to conserve and restaure the heritage objects made out of organic material (wook, leather, fibres) made by people in all domains of activity, the research being destined to the study of degraded materials and the development of new methods of treatment.