Objective
The Modern2020 project aims at providing the means for developing and implementing an effective and efficient repository operational monitoring programme, taking into account the requirements of specific national programmes. The work allows advanced national radioactive waste disposal programmes to design monitoring systems suitable for deployment when repositories start operating in the next decade and supports less developed programmes and other stakeholders by illustrating how the national context can be taken into account in designing dedicated monitoring programmes tailored to their national needs. The work is established to understand what should be monitored within the frame of the wider safety cases and to provide methodology on how monitoring information can be used to support decision making and to plan for responding to monitoring results. Research and development work aims to improve and develop innovative repository monitoring techniques (wireless data transmission, alternative power supply sources, new sensors, geophysical methods) from the proof of feasibility stage to the technology development and demonstration phase. Innovative technical solutions facilitate the integration and flexibility of required monitoring components to ease the final implementation and adaptation of the monitoring system. Full-scale in-situ demonstrations of innovative monitoring techniques will further enhance the knowledge on the operational implementation of specific disposal monitoring and will demonstrate the performance of the state-of-the-art, the innovative techniques and their comparison with conventional ones.
Finally, Modern2020 has the ambition to effectively engage local citizen stakeholders in the R&D monitoring activity by involving them at an early stage in a repository development programme in order to integrate their concerns and expectations into monitoring programmes.
Field of science
- /engineering and technology/other engineering and technologies/nuclear engineering/nuclear waste management
Programme(s)
- H2020-Euratom-1.8. - Ensure availability and use of research infrastructures of pan_european relevance
- H2020-Euratom-1.2. - Contribute to the development of solutions for the management of ultimate nuclear waste
- H2020-Euratom-1.3. - Support the development and sustainability of nuclear competences at Union level
Topic(s)
Call for proposal
NFRP-2014-2015
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
92298 Chatenay Malabry
France
Participants (29)
Participation ended
28918 Leganes
92400 Courbevoie
160 00 Praha
31224 Peine
75008 Paris 08
000196 Roma
28043 Madrid
8092 Zuerich
2400 Mol
LE15 6AX Oakham
92260 Fontenay Aux Roses
5430 Wettingen
10121 Torino
1755 LE Petten
1210 Saint-josse-ten-noode
27160 Eurajoki
CA24 3HU Cumbria
104-0052 Tokyo
169 03 Solna
110000 Praha
46117 Liberec
2000 Antwerpen
405 30 Goeteborg
7000 Mons
87032 Limoges
G1 1XQ Glasgow
02150 Espoo
28108 Alcobendas
28919 Leganes Madrid
