Project description
Fission and fusion reactors: advancing the technology readiness of promising structural materials
Fission lead-cooled and molten-salt fast reactors are among the Generation IV nuclear reactors under development globally. In addition to fission reactors harnessing the splitting of nuclei, fusion reactors leveraging the combination of two light nuclei are also under development, promising vastly greater amounts of energy released. The EU-funded INNUMAT project will develop innovative structural materials for these nuclear applications and with potential applicability in concentrated solar power and/or in hydrogen confinement. The goal is to rapidly increase the technology readiness of the materials regarding corrosion resistance, high temperature strength, thermal stability and irradiation tolerance via computational and experimental high throughput material screening methods.
Objective
INNUMAT aims to develop innovative structural materials for nuclear applications and put them on track towards qualification for fission lead-cooled and molten salt fast reactors as well as fusion DEMO. High entropy alloys (HEAs), a new class of materials with a vast development potential and very promising properties, as well as alumina forming austenitic (AFA) steels, already identified as prospective structural materials for Gen IV and Small Modular Reactors, are in the main focus in which advanced material solutions are considered as well, in particular weld overlay and coated 15-15Ti for lead-cooled fast reactors, among others MYRRHA and ALFRED, and coated EUROFER and advanced oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) steel for fusion DEMO. Some of these structural materials are of potential applicability also outside the nuclear field, e.g. in concentrated solar power and/or in H2 confinement. The project is thus cross-cutting because of the target applications as well as because of the accelerated methodologies for materials discovery, screening and qualification that it pursues, applied at different technology readiness levels (TRLs).
The differences in TRL, application conditions and requirements of the considered materials result in different objectives and hence different research tracks through the project with even different efforts. Common goal is to rapidly increase the TRL for the desired nuclear applications towards requirements of corrosion resistance, high temperature strength, thermal stability and irradiation tolerance, which are not met by current structural materials. Therefore, computational and experimental high throughput material screening methods will be applied and roadmaps for accelerated qualification will be established paving a fast way to more efficient safe sustainable nuclear energy systems with considerable contribution to the overall mission of developing economic energy systems with reduced/zero CO2 emissions.
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76131 Karlsruhe
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16152 Genova
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28040 MADRID
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91120 Palaiseau
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92400 Courbevoie
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28006 Madrid
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1160 Bruxelles / Brussel
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16163 Genova
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75015 PARIS 15
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100 44 Stockholm
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250 68 Husinec-Rez
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77125 Magurele
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80686 Munchen
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115400 Mioveni
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1121 Budapest
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44122 Ferrara
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00-661 WARSZAWA
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75794 Paris
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76821 Mont Saint Aignan Cedex
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44000 Nantes
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59000 Lille
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10129 Torino
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05 400 Otwock
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81243 Bratislava
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00196 Roma
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75008 Paris
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00014 Helsingin Yliopisto
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02150 Espoo
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61108 Kharkiv
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01328 Dresden
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811 81 Sandviken
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OX14 3DB Abingdon
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1049 Bruxelles / Brussel
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20124 Milano
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81181 SANDVIKEN
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5232 Villigen Psi
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373 31 Nättraby
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WA16 8QZ Knutsford
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LL57 2DG Bangor
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