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
- natural sciencesphysical sciencestheoretical physicsparticle physicsparticle accelerator
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcontrol systems
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technologyradio frequency
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsnuclear energy
- engineering and technologyother engineering and technologiesnuclear engineeringnuclear waste management
Programme(s)
- 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
Call for proposal
NFRP-2014-2015
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
1160 Bruxelles
Belgium
Participants (26)
91400 Orsay
28035 Madrid
1211 Geneva 23
28040 Madrid
75794 Paris
09050 Pula Cagliari
28015 Madrid
00196 Roma
01328 Dresden
60323 Frankfurt Am Main
1348 Ottignies Louvain La Neuve
1049 Brussels
76131 Karlsruhe
1755 LE Petten
5232 Villigen Psi
1348 Louvain La Neuve
64289 Darmstadt
9000 Gent
56126 Pisa
1640 Rhode Saint Genese
1050 Brussel
1000 Ljubljana
33700 Merignac
1049 001 Lisboa
75015 Paris 15
63571 Gelnhausen Hailer