Project description DEENESFRITPL Promising safety system solutions for nuclear energy Nuclear power can form an important component of the future energy landscape. Nuclear power plants (NPPs) have an excellent safety record, with few accidents, and Europe is dedicated to taking innovative actions to enhance the safety of its NPPs to support further adoption and increase positive impact. Within this context, the EU-funded PASTELS project is working on improving numerical tools to accurately simulate some of the most promising safety systems - the so-called passive systems - rapidly being adopted by non-European NPPs. These tools will support guidelines and provide a roadmap to the adoption and licensing of these technologies in future European NPPs. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective PASTELS aims to significantly increase the knowledge within Europe of innovative passive systems, namely SACOs and CWCs, and the ability of several European system and CFD computational codes to be able to accurately model key phenomena such as natural circulation loops and condensation. This is very challenging due to their very specific properties, i.e. small driving forces working against high resistive forces which are specific to the concept of these technologies. Given the growing use of the SACO and CWC technologies in non-European NPPs, it is essential, especially with the foreseen future use of Small Medium Reactors (SMR) that the European nuclear community is able to adapt its current numerical tools to this promising technology. Extensive experimental testing (SET, CET and integral experiments) with representative operating conditions on semi-industrial full scale test facilities (PKL facility [DE] and PASI facility [FI]) will provide essential data to support the improvement of the numerical activities. Existing data from PERSEO and HERO-2 facilities will also be used. The numerical and experimental activities will be conducted in an integrated step-by-step approach. PASTELS will investigate improvements to models, novel methodologies for the coupling of system and CFD codes working at different scales. Additionally, important knowledge on the behaviour of the SACO and CWC will be captured through the observation of their behaviour during the test campaigns. Different and similar computational codes will be used by the partners in order to be able to benchmark and compare the different results obtained, understand the causes and propose strategies to improve them. All project results will feed into extensive methodology guidelines and a roadmap to achieving licensing and implementation of these innovative passive system technologies in future European NPPs. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputational science Keywords Innovative passive systems Safety demonstration Design Reliability SACO CWC Relevant experimental data System and CFD code Benchmark Guidelines Code coupling methodologies Programme(s) H2020-Euratom - Euratom Main Programme H2020-Euratom-1. - Indirect actions Topic(s) NFRP-2019-2020-04 - Innovation for Generation II and III reactors Call for proposal NFRP-2019-2020 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme IA - Innovation action Coordinator ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE Net EU contribution € 461 728,75 Address Avenue de wagram 22 75008 Paris France See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 197 883,75 Participants (10) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all AGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, L'ENERGIA E LO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE Italy Net EU contribution € 188 300,00 Address Lungotevere grande ammiraglio thaon di revel 76 00196 Roma See on map Region Centro (IT) Lazio Roma Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 80 700,00 COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES France Net EU contribution € 221 508,88 Address Rue leblanc 25 75015 Paris See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 94 932,37 FRAMATOME GMBH Germany Net EU contribution € 545 963,25 Address Paul-gossen-strasse 100 91052 Erlangen See on map Region Bayern Mittelfranken Erlangen, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 233 984,25 GESELLSCHAFT FUR ANLAGEN UND REAKTORSICHERHEIT (GRS) gGmbH Germany Net EU contribution € 133 750,00 Address Schwertnergasse 1 50667 Koln See on map Region Nordrhein-Westfalen Köln Köln, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART Germany Net EU contribution € 171 392,50 Address Keplerstrasse 7 70174 Stuttgart See on map Region Baden-Württemberg Stuttgart Stuttgart, Stadtkreis Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SURETE NUCLEAIRE France Net EU contribution € 223 207,50 Address Av de la division leclerc 31 92260 Fontenay aux roses See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Hauts-de-Seine Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 LAPPEENRANNAN-LAHDEN TEKNILLINEN YLIOPISTO LUT Finland Net EU contribution € 579 125,00 Address Yliopistonkatu 34 53850 Lappeenranta See on map 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organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 79 502,62 ARTTIC France Net EU contribution € 155 575,00 Address 39 rue des mathurins 75008 Paris See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 66 675,00