Project period:
9/2024–8/2028
Project funding:
The European Union
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The four-year project will address the safety issues associated with major LW-SMR innovations:
- Passive safety systems
- Soluble boron-free cores
- Co-generation and hybridization
- Additive manufacturing (3D printing) to improve the compactness of modularization of nuclear steam supply system internals
- Multi-unit operation
The work aims to provide insights and facilitate licensing for European LW-SMR industrial projects. Particularly, two European SMR designs are studied: the French NUWARD and Finnish LDR-50 reactors.
Goals
- To ensure the highest level of the safety of LW-SMRs based on passive systems.
- To assess the safety impact of LW-SMRs designs' specificities.
- To address regulatory and societal challenges towards the deployment of SMRs in Europe.
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The project consists of eight work packages and dozens of organizations from 16 different countries. LUT is mainly involved in work packages WP2 (experimental studies of passive systems) and WP3 (code validation).
LUT builds two new test facilities in the nuclear engineering laboratory to study passive safety systems of small reactors. The systems are related to the Finnish Steady Energy's LDR-50 district heating reactor and the French NUWARD reactor.
The EU funding of the project is approximately 2.1 million euros.
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- European Commission
- EDF (Électricité de France)
- Steady Energy
- AIMEN Technology Centre
- University of Sheffield
- Ansaldo Nucleare
- Analytical Research Bureau (ARB)
- Tractebel
- Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
- ETH Zürich
- Bel V
- Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection (CLOR)
- The French Authority for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection (ASNR)
- The European Nuclear Education Network (ENEN)
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)
- GRS (Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit)
- ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development)
- IFE (Institute for Energy Technology)
- Jožef Stefan Institute
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- Lithuanian Energy Institute (LEI)
- The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
- SIET
- Energorisk
- Framatome
- National Centre for Nuclear Research (SWIERK)
- Nuclear and Industrial Engineering (N.IN.E.)
- NRG PALLAS
- CIRTEN (Intra-University Consortium for Nuclear Technology Research)
- Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)
- Swerim AB
- The State Scientific and Technical Center for Nuclear and Radiation Safety (SSTC NRS)
- ÚJV Řež
- VTT
- Forschungszentrum Jülich
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
- CIEMAT (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas)
- Ruhr University Bochum (RUB)
