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Project Reports

Management of Radioactive Waste

Cross-cutting

• ACTINET-6:Network for Actinides Sciences (ACTINET-6)
  
  • Final activity report (PDF)

Societal and strategic studies

• ARGONA:Arenas for Risk Governance
  • Final Report (PDF)
  • First annual activity summary (PDF)

• CIP: COWAM in Practice
  • Final Report (PDF)
  • First annual activity summary (PDF)

• COWAM-2: Cooperative Research on the Governance of Radioactive Waste Management
  • Final report (PDF)

• OBRA: European Observatory for Long-term Governance on Radioactive Waste Management
  • D4.11 Final report (PDF)
  • Final activity report (PDF)

• SAPIERR: Support Action: Pilot Initiative for European Regional Repositories
  • Final report (PDF)

• SAPIERR II: Strategy action plan for implementation of European regional repository
  • Final activity report (PDF)
  • Deliverable 1: Legal & Business Options for Developing a Multinational/Regional Repository (PDF)
  • Deliverable 2: Responsibilities and Financial Liabilities (PDF)
  • Deliverable 3: Economic Aspects of Regional Repositories (PDF)
  • Deliverable 4: Safety and Security of Regional Repositories (PDF)
  • Deliverable 5: Public and political attitudes (PDF)
  • Other documents: http://www.erdo-wg.eu/ERDO-WG_website/Documents.html (PDF)

Geological disposal

• FUNMIG:Fundamental Processes of Radionuclide Migration
  • Final Report (PDF)

• MICADO: Model Uncertainty for the Mechanism of Dissolution of Spent Fuel in Nuclear Waste Repository x
  • Results
  • Final Report (PDF)

• CARD:A Co-ordination Action on Research, Development and Demonstration Priorities and Strategies for Geological Disposal
  • Final Report (PDF)

• CATT:Co-operation and technology transfer on long-term radioactive waste management for Member States with small nuclear programmes
  • Final Report (PDF)

• ESDRED: Engineering Studies and Demonstration of Repository Designs
  • List of available deliverables (May 2008) - from www.esdred.info
  • First annual activity summary
  • Second annual activity summary
  • Third annual activity summary
  • Fourth annual activity summary
  Final Reports:
  • Summary and global evaluation
  • Module 1 (Buffer construction technology)
  • Module 2 (Waste canister transfer and emplacement technology)
    
  • Module 3 (Heavy load emplacement technology)
  • Module 4 (Temporary Sealing Technology)
    


• NF-PRO: Understanding and Physical and Numerical Modelling of the Key Processes in the Near Field and their Coupling for Different Host Rocks and Repository Strategies
  • Final report (PDF)


• PAMINA: Performance Assessment Methodologies in Application to Guide the Development of the Safety Case
  • Project summary report
  • European Handbook of the state-of-the-art of safety assessments of geological repositories

• Study of mineral alterations of clay barriers used for radioactive waste storage and its geological disposal (SMARAGD)
  • Final report (PDF)


• THERESA: Coupled Thermal-Hydrological-Mechanical-Chemical Processes for Application in Repository Safety Assessment
  • First annual activity summary (PDF)
  • Second annual activity summary (PDF)
  • THERESA project presentation (PDF)


• TIMODAZ: Thermal Impact on the Damaged Zone around a Radioactive Waste Disposal in Clay Host Rocks
  • First annual activity summary (PDF)
  • Mid-term executive summary of activities (PDF)
  • Third annual activity summary (PDF)

Partitioning and transmutation

• CANDIDE: Coordinated Action on Nuclear Data for Industrial Development in Europe
  • Final report (PDF)

• RED-IMPACT:Impact of Partitioning, Transmutation and Waste Reduction Technologies on the Final Nuclear Waste Disposal
  • Final publishable report (PDF)

• PUMA: Plutonium and Minor Actinide Management in Thermal High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors
  • Final Report (PDF)

Radiation Protection

Quantification of risks associated with low and protracted exposures

• ALPHA-RISK:Quantification of cancer and non-cancer risks associated with multiple chronic radiation exposures: Epidemiological studies, organ dose calculation and risk assessment
  • Final activity report (PDF)

• ERA-PRO:Promotion and update of the European Radiobiological Archives
  
  • Final activity report (PDF)

• RACE:Radiotherapy for breast cancer and subsequent risk of cardiovascular events
  
  • Final activity report (PDF)
  • Publishable results (PDF)

Cross-cutting

• Radiation Quantities and Units, Dose to the Patients, and Image Quality in Computed Tomography (RAD UNITS)
  • Final report (PDF)

• RECOIL: Recommendations on Protection: Dissemination of International Radiation Results
  • Executive summary (PDF)

Radiobiology

• RiscRad:DNA damage responses, Genomic instability and Radiation-Induced Cancer: The problem of risk at low and protracted doses (RISC-RAD) Safety of existing installations
  
  • Executive Summary (PDF)
  • Scientific Summary (PDF)

Medical exposures and natural sources of radiation

• CT Safety and Efficacy: Safety and Efficacy of Computed Tomography: A broad perspective.
  • Final report (PDF)


• SENTINEL: Safety and Efficacy for New Techniques and Imaging Using New Equipment to Support European Legislation
  • Final report (PDF)

Protection of the environment and radioecology

• FUTURAE: A Future for Radioecology in Europe
  • Deliverable 4 (PDF)
  • Final report (PDF)
• ERICA: Environmental Risk from Ionising Contaminants: Assessment and Management
  • Mid-term report (PDF)
  • Consensus document, June 2006 (PDF)
  • Final report (PDF)

• PROTECT: Protection of the Environment from Ionising Radiation in a Regulatory Context
  • Final activity report (DOC)
  • Executive summary (DOC)

Protection of the workplace

• CONRAD: Coordinated Network for Radiation Dosimetry
  • Final report (PDF)

Risk and emergency management

• EURANOS: Quantification of risks associated with low and protracted exposures
  
  • Final activity report (PDF)

• TMT Handbook
  • Final report (PDF)
  • TMT Handbook 20091 (PDF)

Activities in the Field of Nuclear Technologies and Safety

Decomissioning

• CND: Co-ordination Network on Decommissioning of Nuclear Installations
  • Project Management and Planing Final Report 2008 (PDF)
  • Material Management and Characterisation Techniques -Final Report 2008 (PDF)
  • Institutional, Legal and Regulatory Aspects; Licensing and Decommissioning Plan,Radiological Protection and Industrial Safety - Final Report 2008 (PDF)
  • Analysis of the Factors Influencing the Selection of Strategies for Decommissioning of Nuclear Installations - Final Report 2008 (PDF)
  • New Considerations Relating to Screening and Scoping within the Environmental Impact Assessment Process.Public Participation and Socio-economic Aspects in Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Plants - Final Report 2008. (PDF)
  • Co-ordination Network on Decommissioning of Nuclear Installations Integrating Activity implemented as Coordination Action - Final Report (PDF)
  • Dismantling Techniques, Decontamination Techniques, Dissemination of Best Practice, Experience and Know-how - Final Report 2009 (PDF)
  • European Radiation Survey and Site Execution Manual-Final Report 2009 (PDF)

Innovative concepts

• ALISIA: Assessment of LIquid Salts for Innovative Applications
  • Review Report (PDF)

• EISOFAR: Road Map for a European Innovative Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor
  • Final report (PDF)

Education and training

• BNEN: Open Access to the Belgian Nuclear Higher Education Network
  • Final report (PDF)


• CETRAD:Coordination Action on Education and Training in Radiation Protection and Radioactive Waste Management
  • Report (zipped PDF files)


• ENETRAP: European Network on Education and Training in Radiological Protection (ENETRAP)
  • Final report (PDF)


• EUNDETRAF II:The European Nuclear Decommissioning Training Facility II
  • Final report (PDF)


• EURAC: Securing European Radiological Protection and Radioecology Competence to meet the Future Needs of Stakeholders
  • Final report (PDF)


• MSCRB: European Master of Science Course in Radiation Biology (MSCRB)
  • 24-month Reriodic Report (October 2005) (PDF)
  • Draft Final Report (PDF)


• MSCFP: Integrating EURATOM FP5 and FP6 research into the European Master of Science in Radiation Biology
  
  • Final activity report (PDF)


• NEPTUNO: Nuclear European Platform of Training and University Organisations
  • Final report (PDF)

Safety of existing installations

• ANTIOXI: A deterministic model for corrosion and activity incorporation in nuclear power plants
  • Final Report (PDF)

• PERFECT:Prediction of Irradiation Damage Effect in reactor Components
  
  • Final Activity Report (PDF)

• SARNET:a proposal of network of excellence for a sustainable integration of European research on severe accident phenomenology and management
  
  • Final Activity Report (PDF)

• COVERS:Boosting Safety and Reliability of Reactors in the New Member States
  • Final Activity Report (PDF)
  • Final publishable results (PDF)

• NURESIM: European Platform for NUclear REactor SIMulation
  
  • Final activity report (PDF)

• GAIN:Gap Analysis for Long Term Inspection Needs of Nuclear Plant
  • Final report (PDF)

• Use of RPV Dosimetry Benchmark Results for Determining Radiation Embrittlement Damage (RADE)
  • Final report summary (PDF)

Infrastructures

• HOTLAB:European Hot Laboratories Research Capacities and Needs
  • Final activity report (PDF)
  • Executive summary (PDF)


• JHR-CA: Jules Horowitz Reactor Coordination Action
  • Final report (PDF)

• MTR-I3:Integrated Infrastructure Initiatives for Material Testing Reactor Innovations
  • Final publishable report (PDF)

Cross-cutting

• ENFTP:Towards a European Nuclear Fission Technology Platform
  • Final report (PDF)

FP5 Reports:

• RESEAL II: A large-scale in situ demonstration test for repository sealing in an argillaceous host rock – Phase II
  
  • Final report (PDF, 11MB)