Fission Improved safety design and operation of fission reactors
OBJECTIVES
Specific challenge: The European Union
(EU) has a strong leadership in reactor design and operation responding to
stringent safety requirements from regulators and seeks to foster convergence
of nuclear safety approaches. The EU is also at the forefront of the
development of innovative reactor designs with even higher safety
characteristics. Today's major research challenge is evidently to reinforce
research cooperation on reactor safety at EU level and worldwide.
Scope: At EU level, this reinforced
cooperation will, first of all, involve Members States' national research
programmes while also taking into account the priorities of the strategic
research and innovation agenda of SNETP and
NUGENIA.
The Euratom funding will be devoted to supporting the continuous improvement of
nuclear safety of the existing reactor fleet and to optimising the safety
characteristics in the design of future reactors, e.g. by implementation of
passive safety features and by increasing the redundancy and diversity or by
performing experimental tests and developing advanced simulation tools. The
focus will be on actions increasing the knowledge basis on reactor life-time
management issues relevant to safety (e.g. integrity of structural components,
containment, irradiation and corrosion issues, …), as well as on those
promoting safety culture and providing guidance for severe accident management
(especially on issues arising after the Fukushima accident e.g. safety of fuel
storage, hydrogen explosion, containment behaviour, corium/debris coolability
and interactions, …). The Euratom funding will be dedicated to topics where
national programme priorities converge and where European added value is
obvious and maximised. International cooperation activities would be beneficial
in this area and will be considered during evaluation.
Expected impact: In the short term, this
action will provide the knowledge basis for developing robust national and EU
policies in the field of nuclear reactor safety, while also helping interacting
with stakeholders and civil society on nuclear reactor safety. In the medium
term this research will further improve the safety of nuclear reactors in
Europe and worldwide through increased resistance of safety relevant equipment
and better safety culture. It will also reinforce the EU strong leadership in
reactor design and operation responding to stringent safety requirements from
regulators and seek to foster European cooperation on nuclear safety
approaches. In so doing, the EU will remain at the forefront of the development
of innovative reactor designs with even higher safety characteristics.
Type of action: Research and innovation
actions.
Budget
€87,870,000 NFRP-2014-2015
Applicants
Research centres, Local and Regional authorities,
SME
Regions European Union, Candidate countries, European Economic Area,
Eligibility
Three legal entities. Each of the three shall
be established in a
different
Member State or associated country. All three legal
entities
shall be independent of each other.
Co-funding rate 100%
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