CORDIS Archive

KEY ACTION: NUCLEAR FISSION

• Operational safety of existing installations
  • Plant life extension and management
    Integrity of equipment and structures
    On-line monitoring, inspection and maintenance
    Organisation and management of safety
    VVER operational safety issues
  • Severe accident management
    Severe accident management measures
    Assessment of severe accident risks
  • Evolutionary concepts
    Evolutionary safety concepts
    High burn-up and mixed oxide (MOX) fuel

• Safety of the fuel cycle
• • Waste and spent fuel management and disposal
    Management strategies
    Quality checking of waste packages
    Repository technology
    Performance assessment of repository systems
    Long-term behaviour of repository systems
    Public attitudes and involvement
  • Partitioning and transmutation
    
    Chemical separation (partitioning)
    Transmutation (technological support)
    Transmutation (basic studies)
    Transmutation (preliminary design studies)
    Transmutation (fuel)
    Networking
  • Decommissioning of nuclear installations

• Safety and efficiency of future systems
• • Innovative and revisited concepts
    
    HT reactors
    Other reactor concepts and fuel cycles
    Other applications

• Radiation protection
• • Risk assessment and management
  • Monitoring and assessment of occupational exposure
  • Off-site emergency management
  • Restoration and long-term management of contaminated environments