Objective
The Strategic Research Agenda of the EU Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technical platform requires new large infrastructures for its successful deployment. MYRRHA has been identified as a long term supporting research facility for all ESNII systems and as such put in the high-priority list of ESFRI. The goal of MYRTE is to perform the necessary research in order to demonstrate the feasibility of transmutation of high-level waste at industrial scale through the development of the MYRRHA research facility. Within MYRRHA as a large research facility, the demonstration of the technological performance of transmutation will be combined with the use for the production of radio-isotopes and as a material testing for nuclear fission and fusion applications. Numerical studies and experimental facilities are foreseen to reach this goal.
Besides coordination, international collaboration and dissemination activities, the MYRTE proposal contains 5 technical work packages. The first and largest work-package is devoted to the realisation of the injector part of the MYRRHA accelerator to demonstrate the feasibility and required reliability of this non-semi-conducting part of the accelerator. The second work-package addresses the main outstanding technical issues in thermal hydraulics by numerical simulations and experimental validation. Pool thermal hydraulics and thermal hydraulics of the fuel assembly will be the focus of this WP. In the WP on LBE Chemistry, the evaporation from LBE, capture and deposition of Po and fission products will be studied in detail to complement the safety report. A small dedicated WP on experimental reactor physics is also foreseen to allow carrying out the necessary supplementary experiments at the GUINEVERE-facility to address the questions of the safety authorities. In a last WP, advanced studies on Americium-bearing oxide fuel are carried out to demonstrate the capability of developing minor actinide fuel for transmutation.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyother engineering and technologiesnuclear engineeringnuclear waste management
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technologyradio frequency
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcontrol systems
- natural sciencesphysical sciencestheoretical physicsparticle physicsparticle accelerator
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsnuclear energy
Programme(s)
- H2020-Euratom - Euratom Main Programme
- H2020-Euratom-1.8. - Ensure availability and use of research infrastructures of pan_european relevance
- H2020-Euratom-1.4. - Foster radiation protection
- H2020-Euratom-1.3. - Support the development and sustainability of nuclear competences at Union level
- H2020-Euratom-1.1. - Support safe operation of nuclear systems
Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
1160 Bruxelles / Brussel
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91400 Orsay
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28035 MADRID
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1211 GENEVE 23
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28040 MADRID
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75794 Paris
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14050 Caen
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14032 Caen Cedex 5
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09050 Pula Cagliari
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28015 Madrid
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48003 Bilbao
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28223 Pozuelo De Alarcon Madrid
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28050 Madrid
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28015 Madrid
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28015 MADRID
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00196 Roma
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01328 Dresden
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60323 Frankfurt Am Main
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1348 Ottignies Louvain La Neuve
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1049 Bruxelles / Brussel
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76131 Karlsruhe
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1755 LE Petten
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5232 Villigen Psi
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1348 Louvain La Neuve
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64289 Darmstadt
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9000 Gent
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56126 Pisa
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1640 Sint-Genesius-Rode
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1000 Ljubljana
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33700 Merignac
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1000-043 Lisboa
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75015 PARIS 15
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63571 GELNHAUSEN HAILER
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