Rudi Van Nieuwenhove

About

Experienced Chief Scientist (now retired) with a demonstrated history of working in the research industry. Strong research professional skilled in Thermal Analysis, ANSYS, Mechanics, Research and Development (R&D), and Physics. Although my whole career has been in the field of nuclear fusion and fission, I personally consider my most relevant work in the field of gravitation and cosmology: See: Van Nieuwenhove R 1998 Is the missing mass really missing? Astron. Astrophys. Trans. 16 (1) 37-40 Van Nieuwenhove, R 1992, Quantum Gravity: A Hypothesis, Europh. Lett., 17(1), PP. 1-4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/17/1/001(1) Van Nieuwenhove, R., 2007, On the vacuum stress-energy tensor in General Realtivity, 2007, The old and New Concepts of Physics, ¤(4);, pp. 645-650, http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10005-007-0028-5 https://scirp.org/journal/paperinforcitation?paperid=150625 Van Nieuwenhove, R., 2025, A Resolution to the Cosmological Constant Problem: Reconsidering the Gravitational Role of Vacuum Energy https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=143835 Van Nieuwenhove, R., 2025, Galactic Geons: Revisiting the dark matter paradigm, https://frdint.com/galactic.pdf and see https://zenodo.org/records/18317095 Van Nieuwenhove, R., 2026, Vacuum Localized Structures: Nonsingular Black Holes and Dark-Matter Candidates https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=149892 Van Nieuwenhove, R., 2026, Cosmic Filaments without Dark Matter: Cylindrical Vacuum Localized Structures as Exact Relativistic Solutions, https://scirp.org/journal/paperinforcitation?paperid=150625

Experience

• Chief Scientist at Institute for Energy Technology
  

  Contributing as researcher to various projects related to fuel, materials, instrument developments and testing in the Halden reactor.

• Pensionist at SCK CEN
  

• Project Manager at SCK-CEN
  

• Head of Section Experimental Facilities, Instrumentation & Control at SCK CEN
  

• Principal Scientist at Institute for Energy Technology
  

  Instrument development within the Test Rig Design and Production Division. Support to the design of experimental rigs for use in the Halden Reactor. Consulting work in the offshore industry. Working on Generation-IV reactor related topics. Work related to gravity: http://rudivannieuwenhove.blogspot.no

• Section Head Reactor Instrumentation at Studiecentrum voor Kernenergie (SCK-CEN)
  

  Researcher in corrosion group SCK-CEN Section Head of Instrumentation division Responsible for optimization of instruments in the BR2 reactor Responsible for various EU projects related to nuclear fusion (material research) Instrumentation development for MYRRHA (accelerator driven system; see http://myrrha.sckcen.be/) Seconded to the Halden Project (Norway ; see www.ife.no/hrp) in the period 1995 - 1996 to specialise in in-core instrumentation

• Department Head Research and Development at Institute for Energy Technology
  

  Managing the work related to in-core experiments in the Halden reactor (design, calculations, experiment execution, evaluation of the results).