ELSMOR
Towards European Licencing of Small Modular Reactors
Informazioni Generali
- Coordinatore:
- VTT - TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT OY (Finlandia)
- Responsabile:
- LOMBARDO CALOGERA - NUC-ENER-SIC (BO-VIA DEI MILLE)
- Ruolo ENEA:
- PARTNER
- Sito WEB:
- http://snetp.eu/portfolio-items/elsmor/
Programmi Europei
- Programma:
- HORIZON 2020 - Euratom -> Euratom fissione (RIA - Research and Innovation Action)
Descrizione e Attività
Descrizione Generale
ELSMOR (towards European Lisencing of Small MOdular Reactors) aims to create methods and tools for the European stakeholders to assess and verify the safety of light water small modular reactors (LW-SMR) that would be deployed in Europe.
ELSMOR advances the understanding and technological solutions pertaining to light water SMRs on several fronts:
• Collection, analysis, and dissemination of the information on the potential and challenges of Small Modular Reactors to various stakeholders, including the public, decision makers and regulators.
• Development of the high level methods to assess the safety of LW-SMRs
• Improvement of the European experimental research infrastructure to assist in the evaluation of the novel safety features of the future LW-SMRs.
• Improvement of the European nuclear safety analysis codes to demonstrate the capability to assess the safety of the future LW-SMRs
Establishing education and training in the field of innovative nuclear reactors for young professionals is also emphasized.
The ELSMOR project is built upon the expertise of the consortium that consists of technical support organizations, technical research centres, industrial partners, and universities with the long experience in European nuclear safety analysis and the development and implementation of innovative nuclear technologies. The industrial partners include utilities, small medium sized enterprises as well as the consortium currently developing the French LW-SMR (F-SMR design). The developers of European safety analysis tools and other computer codes use their well-established paths for exploitation of the improved and validated simulation tools.
The licencing approaches and methods would be expected to be directly utilized by SMR designers like the French consortium. The outcomes should make the licensing process more fluid and comprehensive; this should also be true from the regulator point of view.
Attività svolta da ENEA
L'ENEA coordina il work package 3 "Core cooling safety functions" e partecipa a tutti i work package del progetto:
WP 1 Identification of improved safety features of LW-SMRs
WP 2 Development of safety case methodology
WP 4 Containment safety functions
WP 5 Application of safety case methodology
WP 6 Synthesis, Recommendations and Dissemination
WP 7 Education and training
WP 8 Management
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2023 - amendment durata progetto incrementata da 42 a 48 mesi dalla data di avvio. Termine progetto modificato quindi al 31/08/2023.