The organization structure of BHS, constituted on 17 February 2004, established it as a national coordinator in the non-governmental sector in the field of the hydrogen technologies. The association collaborates:
As a result from a Framework contract for collaboration between Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism and Bulgarian Hydrogen Society, a National Programme for scientific research “Hydrogen Technologies – Hydrogen Economy” was developed.
The following scientific centres take part in the National Programme: Central Laboratory “NATO – Defence Technologies” (University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy), Institute of Electrochemistry and Energy Systems (Bulgarian Academy of Science), Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (Dept. of Inorganic Chemical Technologies), University for Mining and Geology “St. Ivan Rilski” and Collage of Mining (Dept. of Chemistry).
The National Programme will be accomplished by the Hydrogen Technology Centre, which is established within University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy on March 25, 2009. The Centre is responsible for the new Masters Courses in Hydrogen Technologies and Chemical Technologies in Nuclear Power Industry.
From 23rd to 25th November 2007 in Sofia, Bulgarian Hydrogen Society organized international conference entitled High Technologies in the Defence against Terrorism. The Conference was held under auspices of the Minister of Defence and Minister of Interior of R. Bulgaria.
To accomplish this objective a team of three organisations (i.e. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, ALARA Engineering AB and BG H2 Society) working actively in the field of nuclear energy has been established. All these partners have a long experience on the field of study. VTT and BG H2 Society share the same interest in modeling the oxide film behaviour in different process conditions. On the other hand, ALARA Engineering has a long history in monitoring of nuclear reactor components and environments. The ANTIOXI project will implement current knowledge of the nuclear power plant chemistry, activity build-up and material behaviour together with extensive theoretical modeling in those environments in one entity to develop safer and more user-friendly tools for maintaining the power plants.
The overall objective of the ANTIOXI project is to construct a deterministic predictive model for activity build-up and corrosion phenomena in nuclear power plants (NPP), based on an improved mechanistic understanding and tested against real-life data from selected LWRs providing activity and chemistry data. The purpose of this kind of model is to help estimating activity build-up rates in present and future nuclear power plants in Europe in a quantitative way and predicting trends in these rates in order to provide a more comprehensive basis for the planning of support actions of the maintenance personnel.