Descripción del proyecto
Concepción del futuro de los materiales nucleares
La energía nuclear desempeñará un papel clave en la transición energética. Los materiales son fundamentales para la seguridad, la eficiencia y la economía de la energía nuclear. De ahí la importancia de financiar la investigación en materia de materiales nucleares a través de instrumentos estables y altamente cooperativos, como en un programa conjunto europeo o una asociación europea cofinanciada sobre uranio muy enriquecido. El proyecto ORIENT-NM, financiado con fondos europeos, sentará la base para poner en marcha una asociación europea cofinanciada sobre materiales nucleares. El proyecto elaborará una agenda de investigación estratégica realista sobre materiales para todas las generaciones de reactores nucleares y desarrollará una estructura jurídica y de gobernanza eficaz para dicha asociación europea cofinanciada, así como el programa de puesta en práctica. Por último, identificará las formas adecuadas de interacción con otros agentes e iniciativas relacionados con los materiales nucleares, con un estrecho diálogo con los Estados miembros, la Comisión Europea y las partes interesadas.
Objetivo
ORIENT-NM answers the Euratom WP 2019-20 call NFRP-08, which requests to explore the possibility of establishing a European Joint Programme (EJP) on nuclear materials. Accordingly, ORIENT-NM will:
1. Produce a convincing strategic research agenda (SRA) for materials for all nuclear fission reactor generations (until 2040), consistent with national programmes and industrial needs, including supply chain constraints, paying attention to standardisation issues and verifying the availability of suitable infrastructures;
2. Elaborate an efficient EJP governance and legal structure, including attention for decision-making processes, intellectual property issues, promotion of innovation and analysis of potentially available resources, as well as an implementation scheme caring among others for quality assurance, SRA updating, knowledge and data management; all this considering different possible scenarios;
3. To identify appropriate ways of interactions between the EJP and other bodies and initiatives that bear connections with nuclear materials (stake-holders), including international organisations, standardisation bodies, technical safety organisations, fusion and non-nuclear energy communities, other associations, while addressing the issue of a coordinated use of nuclear materials infrastructures.
All of the above will be done in close dialogue with Member States and European Commission, as well as all other stake-holders, in order to meet their requirements and expectations from an EJP on nuclear materials and raise the interest of identified research owners and research managers, by demonstrating the added value of such EJP.
The key outcomes will be:
A. Critical assessment of the added value of an EJP on nuclear materials;
B. Vision Paper and SRA;
C. Possible EJP structure, governance, legal aspects and implementation;
D. Set of protocols for the interaction of the EJP with other stake-holders.
Documents listed under A, C and D will complement and integrate the SRA.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
- H2020-Euratom - Euratom Main Programme
- H2020-Euratom-1. - Indirect actions
Régimen de financiación
CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinador
28040 MADRID
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