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PROOF OF AUGMENTED SAFETY CONDITIONS IN ADVANCED LIQUID-METAL-COOLED SYSTEMS

Project description

Boosting safety of liquid metal cooled nuclear reactors

The main goal behind the Lead Fast Reactor technologies is to secure the role of nuclear energy in Europe's pursuit of a sustainable and low-carbon future. The advanced nuclear reactors ALFRED (demonstrator) and MYRRHA (irradiation facility) - both using a liquid metal as a primary coolant - will be essential milestones to foster this objective. The EU-funded PASCAL project will support the ongoing pre-licensing processes of ALFRED and MYRRHA, benefitting from continuous advice offered by a dedicated external board of experts from regulatory bodies and industrial stakeholders. The project will ultimately strengthen the longstanding collaborations amongst European organisations and strongly support the education and training of a new generation of experts to secure a safety culture is preserved.

Objective

The PASCAL project is devoted at significantly contribute to the advancement of the safety research on innovative heavy liquid metal cooled reactors, with the ambition to generate evidence that is ready-for-use in the discussions between the ALFRED and MYRRHA designers and the respective safety authorities in the pre-licensing phase.
The goals of PASCAL also set an ambition of relevance and quality to the results, which is reflected in structuring and organizing the proposal. Relevant experiments in representative conditions are planned, and - wherever applicable - accompaigned by simulations with the objective of extending their domain of validation and reducing uncertainties.
The selected activities all address the main reference: supporting the justification of resilience to severe accident conditions, aiming to demonstrate the claim that no off-site emergency measures are needed for an HLM-cooled system.
Finally, the project will strengthen the longstanding collaborations among European organizations, and will strongly support the education and training of a new generation of experts, to secure safety culture is preserved.

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Coordinator

AGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, L'ENERGIA E LO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE
Net EU contribution

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€ 562 969,00
Address
LUNGOTEVERE GRANDE AMMIRAGLIO THAON DI REVEL 76
00196 Roma
Italy

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Centro (IT) Lazio Roma
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Total cost

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€ 750 625,00

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