Objective
"Nuclear power plays a key role in limiting EU’s greenhouse gases emissions, and makes an important contribution to improve European Union’s independence, security and diversity of energy supply. However, its social acceptance is closely linked to an enhanced safety in the management of long-lived radioactive waste contributing to resource efficiency and cost-effectiveness of this energy and ensuring a robust and socially acceptable system of protection of man and environment. Among the different strategies, partitioning and transmutation (P&T) allows a reduction of the amount, the radiotoxicity and the thermal power of these wastes, leading to an optimal use of geological repository sites.
In line with the Strategic Research Agenda of SNE-TP, the SACSESS collaborative project will provide a structured framework to enhance the fuel cycle safety associated to P&T. In addition, safety studies will be performed for each selected process to identify weak points to be studied further. These data will be integrated to optimise flowsheets and process operation conditions.
A training and education programme will be implemented in close collaboration with other European initiatives, addressing safety issues of nuclear energy industry.
The multidisciplinary consortium composed of European universities, nuclear research bodies, TSOs and industrial stakeholders will generate fundamental safety improvements on the future design of an Advanced Processing Unit. SACSESS will thus be an essential contribution to the demonstration of the potential benefits of actinide partitioning to the global safety of the long-lived waste management."
Fields of science
Call for proposal
FP7-Fission-2012
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Funding Scheme
CP - Collaborative project (generic)Coordinator
75015 PARIS 15
France
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Participants (25)
412 96 GOTEBORG
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28040 MADRID
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75794 Paris
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160 00 Praha
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00196 Roma
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03-195 Warszawa
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25068 Husinec Rez
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92260 Fontenay Aux Roses
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1049 Bruxelles / Brussel
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52428 Julich
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76131 Karlsruhe
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75011 Paris
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WA3 6AE Warrington
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250 68 Husinec Rez
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20133 Milano
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5232 Villigen Psi
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7522 NB Enschede
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67081 Strasbourg
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EH8 9YL Edinburgh
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LA1 4YW Lancaster
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M13 9PL Manchester
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43121 PARMA
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LS2 9JT Leeds
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RG6 6AH Reading
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100 8126 Chiyoda Ku Tokyo
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