Objective
"Besides the European Global Energy Policy, the European Council adopted an action plan that covers nuclear technologies and supports research in order to ""further improve nuclear safety and the management of radioactive waste"". To obtain a more efficient and sustainable management of radioactive waste and hence reduce the burden on geological storage, one can apply partitioning and transmutation independently of future commitment or not to nuclear energy. Within European Union many R&D organisations and industries are conducting since a decade strong R&D in the Partitioning &Transmutation (P&T) field with substantial support from the European Commission. Fostering the European efforts towards a major facility realisation would be very beneficial. This will speed up the development and put Europe at lead in this field. The design of a fast spectrum transmutation experimental facility (FASTEF), able to demonstrate efficient transmutation and associated technology through a system working in subcritical mode (ADS) and/or critical mode, is thus the next step after FP6 IP-EUROTRANS. In the vision report of the ""Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technological Platform"", the need was clearly expressed for a fast-spectrum experimental system to support the development and demonstration of an alternative technology to sodium. Therefore, FASTEF is proposed to be designed to an advanced level for decision to embark for its construction at the horizon of 2012 with the following objectives: to demonstrate the ADS technology and the efficient transmutation of high level waste; to operate as a flexible irradiation facility; to contribute to the demonstration of the Lead Fast Reactor technology without jeopardising the above objectives. The work programme is subdivided in 5 WP's: WP0: Management of the Project WP1: Definition of specifications and detailed work programme of FASTEF WP2: Design of the FASTEF in sub-critical & critical mode WP3: Plant Requirements WP4: Key issues towards realisation"
Fields of science
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Call for proposal
FP7-Fission-2008
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Funding Scheme
CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research projectCoordinator
1160 Bruxelles / Brussel
Belgium
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Participants (19)
76131 Karlsruhe
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16152 Genova
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20122 MILANO
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00196 Roma
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28015 Madrid
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92400 Courbevoie
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75794 Paris
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28040 MADRID
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48930 Getxo
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28035 MADRID
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OX142BA ABINGDON
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01328 Dresden
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2686-953 SACAVEM
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1755 LE Petten
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28040 Madrid
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46022 Valencia
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09050 Pula Cagliari
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319 1184 Ibaraki
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151-742 SEOUL
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