Objective
Most of the actors involved in severe accident research in Europe, plus Canada, Korea and the United States (41 partners), will network in SARNET2 (Severe Accident Research NETwork of Excellence - Phase 2) their capacities of research in order to resolve important pending issues on postulated severe accidents of existing and future Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs). The project has been defined in order to optimise the use of the available means and to constitute a sustainable consortium in which common research programmes and a common computer tool to predict NPP behaviour during a postulated severe accident (ASTEC integral code) are developed. With this aim, the SARNET2 partners contribute to a Joint Programme of Activities, which consists of: - Maintaining and improving an advanced communication tool (developed during SARNET Phase 1) for accessing all project information, fostering exchange of information, and managing documents; - Harmonizing and re-orienting the research programmes, and defining new ones; - Performing experimental programmes on high priority issues, defined during SARNET Phase 1; - Analyzing experimental results in order to elaborate a common understanding of relevant phenomena; - Developing the ASTEC code (including its applicability to all types of European NPPs), which capitalizes in terms of physical models the knowledge produced within SARNET2; - Developing Scientific Databases, in which all the results of research programmes are stored in a common format (DATANET); - Developing education courses on severe accidents for students and researchers, and training courses for specialists; - Promoting personnel mobility amongst various European organizations; - Organizing yearly a large international conference on Severe Accident research (ERMSAR). After the first phase (2004-2008), and the four-year proposed second phase, co-funded by the EC, the network will evolve toward self-sustainability: a legal entity will be created.
Fields of science
Call for proposal
FP7-Fission-2008
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Funding Scheme
NoE - Network of ExcellenceCoordinator
92260 Fontenay Aux Roses
France
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Participants (44)
1525 BUDAPEST
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91052 Erlangen
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92400 Courbevoie
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1111 Budapest
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75015 PARIS 15
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20134 Milano
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412 96 GOTEBORG
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28040 MADRID
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15341 Agia Paraskevi
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75008 Paris
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1113 Sofia
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00196 Roma
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52428 Julich
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76131 Karlsruhe
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50667 Koln
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0402 MIOVENI - ARGES
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1784 Sofia
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917 01 Trnava
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1000 Ljubljana
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100 44 Stockholm
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LT-44403 Kaunas
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WA3 6AE Warrington
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1755 LE Petten
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5232 Villigen Psi
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44801 Bochum
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1000 BRUXELLES
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38400 Saint Martin d'Hères
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1000 Sofia
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820 07 Bratislava
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250 68 Husinec Rez
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NE1 7RU Newcastle Upon Tyne
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56126 Pisa
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70174 Stuttgart
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1121 Budapest
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02044 VTT ESPOO
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91864 Trnava
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1049 Bruxelles / Brussel
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L5K 1B2 Mississauga
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305 353 DAEJEON
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20555-0001 Rockville
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305-338 DAEJEON
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1000 Brussels
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1251 BUDAPEST
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400 001 Mumbai
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