SARGEN_IV
Proposal for a harmonized European methodology for the safety assessment of innovative reactors with fast neutron spectrum planned to be built in Europe
Informazioni Generali
- Coordinatore:
- IRSN - INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SURETE NUCLEAIRE (Francia)
- Responsabile:
- BURGAZZI LUCIANO - FSN-SICNUC-SIN (BO-MARTIRI MONTE SOLE)
- Ruolo ENEA:
- PARTNER
- Sito WEB:
- Sito WEB non disponibile
Programmi Europei
- Programma:
- Settimo Programma Quadro Euratom (2007-2013) -> Euratom fissione (CA-SA - Azione di coordinamento/azione di supporto)
Descrizione e Attività
Descrizione Generale
The European Sustainable Nuclear Industrial Initiative was launched in November 2010 to anticipate the development a fleet of fast reactors with closed cycle. Three fast neutron technologies have been selected: • the Sodium cooled Fast Reactor with the ASTRID prototype • the Lead cooled Fast Reactor with the ALFRED demonstrator which will be preceded by a pilot plan MYRRHA • the Gas cooled Fast Reactor with the ALLEGRO demonstrator With the objective of future assessment of these advanced reactor concepts, the SARGEN_IV Project is intended to gather safety experts from recognized European Technical Safety Organizations from Designers and Vendors as well as from Research Institutes and Universities to: - develop and provide a tentative commonly agreed methodology for the safety assessment, - identify open issues in the safety area, mainly addressing and focussing on assessment relevant ones, - detect and underline new fields for R&D in the safety area - provide a roadmap and preliminary deployment plan for safety-related R&D, including cost estimation. Firstly, the proposed methodology requires the identification and the ranking of the main safety issues related to these reactors which needs a strong collaboration with other European projects as CP-ESFR, GoFastR, LEADER and CDT.. Secondly, a review of the safety methodologies proposed by international organizations and those issued from national practices and European consortia in order to define the tentative commonly agreed methodology which will be therefore applied to specific safety issues relevant for the selected reactors. The project beneficiaries are convinced that fostering to harmonization of the various European safety approaches will be very beneficial and will streamlining EURATOM contribution to Generation IV International Forum in the safety field. It will also improve relations between safety assessment and research programmes efficiency in the development of new concepts.
Attività svolta da ENEA
L'ENEA è impegnato in quattro workpackage:
WP1: Identificazione dei problemi di sicurezza dei sistemi tecnici di riferimento, focalizzato sulla individuazione delle problematiche di sicurezza per i quattro sistemi selezionati e la relativa classificazione in diverse classi.
WP2: revisione delle metodologie di sicurezza per i reattori innovativi
WP3: applicazione delle metodologie proposte nel WP2 ad un caso test
WP4: sviluppo di una tabella di marcia europea per la R&D sulla sicurezza dei reattori veloci