Num. Contratto:
945077
Coordinatore:
SCK CEN - STUDIECENTRUM VOOR KERNENERGIE / CENTRE D'ETUDE DE L'ENERGIE NUCLEAIRE (Belgio)
Responsabile ENEA:
MARTELLI DANIELE - NUC-ING-ITM (BRASIMONE)
Ruolo ENEA:
PARTNER
Sito Web:
https://patricia-h2020.eu/
Programma Quadro:
HORIZON 2020 - Euratom
Programma UE:
Euratom fissione - Fissione nucleare e radioprotezione
Area Tematica:
Energy - fission
Tipo Progetto:
RIA - Research and Innovation Action
Descrizione:
Climate change is one of the main issues facing humanity. Due to its low CO2 emission, nuclear power is part of a sustainable energy mix. However, safety and waste issues cannot be taken lightly. For the latter the way forward is to recycle spent fuel with the goal to close the fuel cycle. This eases ultimate radioactive waste management, increases proliferation resistance and drastically improves economy and sustainability by better use of fuel resources.
The SNETP deployment plan describes a technical needs fuel recycling including partitioning of spent fuel, fabrication and characterisation of minor actinide bearing fuel and the development of transmutation systems.
This proposal follows that plan and answers to NRFP7 of the 2018-2019 EURATOM call: Research and Innovation for Partitioning and/or Transmutation. It focusses on research on advanced partitioning to efficiently separate Am from spent fuel, on experimental and fuel performance code development work studying the behaviour of Am bearing fuel under irradiation and on the safety related research supporting the licensing process of MYRRHA in its role in the development trajectory for a dedicated accelerator driven transmuter. It may be noted that for first time, the communities working of partitioning, transmutation and the development of MYRRHA are joint in one project.
Besides the technical work described above, dedicated work packages deals with education focussing on pre-and post-graduate students, and with dissemination where besides the specific stakeholders also high school pupils and the general public is targeted. A further task on knowledge management includes the both foreground data as well as metadata to so ensure proper QA for V&V is possible. The project is performed using a combination of experiments, theoretical studies and numerical simulations for which the expertise of 26 research centres and universities from 14 EU countries, Switzerland, Korea, Russia and the US is pooled.
Attività svolta da ENEA:
ENEA è coinvolta nel Dominio 3, 4, 5:
- DOMAIN 3: WP31 (WP7) Fuel Cladding Behavior 3 Nell’ambito del TASK 312 “Mechanical Properties of corroded fuel pins” ENEA contribuirà a verificare gli effetti della corrosione indotta dal metallo liquido pesante (LBE) sulla resistenza meccanica delle cladding in 15-15Ti proposte per il reattore MYRRHA.
- DOMAIN 4: WP42 (WP11) System Thermal Hydraulics Safety Nell’ ambito del TASK 4211 “Experimental investigation of the transition between natural circulation modes in CIRCE” ENEA condurrà sperimentazioni sulla stabilità della circolazione naturale in condizioni rappresentative degli scenari incidentali di riferimento per il reattore MYRRHA.
- DOMAIN 5: WP52 (WP14) Knowledge management, education and training Nell’ ambito del TASK 521 “Dissemination, education and communication” ENEA organizzerà incontri annuali con le scuole medie-superiori locali e non allo scopo di presentare il progetto, i risultati raggiunti e includendo visite ai laboratori e alle facility sperimentali. Nell’ ambito del TASK 522 “Knowledge management” ENEA provvederà alla elaborazione e stesura di un data management and quality plan.
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