Objective THE PRESENT JOINT STUDY BY CEA AND UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER IS INTENDED TO ANALYSE THE RESULTS GENERATED IN A NUMBER OF RESEARCH CONTRACTS CONCERNED WITH CUTTING TESTS IN THE AIR AND UNDER WATER, UNDER CONSIDERATION OF THE PREVAILING WORKING CONDITIONS. THE SAME TARGET IS FIXED FOR THE ASSOCIATED FILTRATION SYSTEMS. THE ANALYSIS SHOULD RESULT IN A LARGE DATA BASE, MAKING COMMON USE OF ALL DATA BY GIVING COMPARABLE INFORMATION FOR PRACTICAL DISMANTLING OPERATIONS. THE STUDY SHOULD BE ENLARGED TO A BROADER SCOPE INCLUDING ALSO RECENTLY OBTAINED RESULTS OUTSIDE THE PRESENT RESEARCH PROGRAMME, CONSIDERING ALSO SUPPLEMENTARY CUTTING TOOLS AND FILTRATION SYSTEMS NOT COVERED BY THE PRESENT PROGRAMME. THE ANALYSIS WILL BE DONE IN CLOSE COOPERATION BETWEEN BOTH CONTRACTORS BY WORK-SHARING. Cutting tests in air and in water have been analysed with consideration of the prevailing working conditions. This has provided a database giving broadly assessed information of use in the dismantling of radioactive components. B.1. PREPARATION OF A COMPLETE LIST OF IMPORTANT WORKING PARAMETERS TO BE CONSIDERED FOR A USEFUL COMPARISON OF EXPERIMENTAL DATA OBTAINED WITH CUTTING TESTS ON METALLIC COMPONENTS, AS CONCERNS CUTTING PERFORMANCE, CUTTING EFFLUENT GENERATION AND PERFORMANCE OF ASSOCIATED FILTRATION SYSTEMS (CEA + UH). B.2. ANALYSIS OF GENERATED CUTTING EFFLUENTS IN AIR AND UNDER WATER OBTAINED WITH THE CUTTING TOOLS CONSIDERED IN CHAPTER B.3. (CEA + UH). B.3. ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON OF DATA ON CUTTING PERFORMANCE. THIS ANALYSIS SHOULD ALSO INCLUDE RESULTS OBTAINED OUTSIDE THE PRESENT PROGRAMME (UH). B.4. ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON OF DATA ON VARIOUS PREFILTERS FOR PROTECTION OF HEPA FILTERS (CEA). B.5. ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON OF DATA ON WATER-FILTER SYSTEMS (UH). B.6. PREPARATION OF A CONCLUSIVE ASSESSMENT ON THE TREATED RESULTS WITH RECOMMENDATIONS FOR APPLICATIONS TO LARGE-SCALE DECOMMISSIONING (CEA + UH) Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabases Programme(s) FP1-DECOM 2C - Research programme (Euratom) concerning the decommissioning of nuclear installations, 1984-1988 Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER EU contribution No data Address Appelstrasse 11A 30167 HANNOVER Germany See on map Total cost No data Participants (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA) France EU contribution No data Address Centre d'Études de Saclay 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette See on map Total cost No data