Objective The overall objective of the IABAT project is to make a European assessment of the possibilities of accelerator-driven hybrid reactor systems from the point of view of safe energy production, minimum waste production and transmutation capabilities. In particular: 1. to perform system studies on the accelerator-driven hybrid: - validation and development computer models and data to simulate these systems - qualifying the most important parameters to optimize - studying the spallation target - preliminary safety/risk assessments; determining reference scenarios forsevere accidents - estimation environmental and economical impact of the ADS on the geologicalrepository of HLW - preliminary economical assessments. 2. to assess the accelerator technology 3. to study the radiotoxicity of the fuel cycle for AD8 and its nonproliferatio aspects 4. to provide basic nuclear and material data for AD8 by means of evaluation and experiments The final goal is to concentrate and coordinate different efforts from Member States to create the European scientific and technological basis for eventual further projects aimed at developing environmental-friendly, more publicaccepted and safer nuclear fission energy source. Models, tools, validated routines and some new experimental data for the future experimental activity on a larger scale will be the final results. The project will result in the following benefits: 1. preparation of the platform for future analysis of very different nuclear power systems 2. the grounds for weighting the long-term low-level risks versus short term high-level risks for comparisons of geological repositories with transmutation facilities 3. preliminary economical assessment to prepare the grounds for the future decisions concerning eventual construction of acceleratordriven systems. Research in this field, if successful, can - unlikely fusion - in foreseeable time open the practically unlimited sources of energy, which has better odds to be accepted by general public. The present project, together with inter-coordinated projects in sub-area A.2.3. will provide some answers concerning the safety, environmental and economical benefits of introducing the accelerators into nuclear power production. Programme(s) EAEC-NFS 2 - Specific research and training programme in the field of nuclear safety and safeguards, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 010201 - Strategy studies Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY EU contribution No data Address 24,Lindstetdsvaegen 24 100 44 STOCKHOLM Sweden See on map Total cost No data Participants (10) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Sweden EU contribution No data Address 3,Gibraltargatan 3 41296 GOETEBORG See on map Total cost No data COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES Germany EU contribution No data Address Hermann-von-Helmholtz Platz 1 76125 KARLSRUHE See on map Total cost No data Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA) France EU contribution No data Address Centre d'Études de Cadarache Sere-Ders 13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance See on map Total cost No data ENEA - Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente Italy EU contribution No data Address 301,Via Anguillarese 301 00060 Roma - Santa Maria di Galeria See on map Total cost No data Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie l'Energia e l'Ambiente (ENEA) Italy EU contribution No data Address Via Martiri di Monte Sole 4 40129 Bologna See on map Total cost No data FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JUELICH GMBH Germany EU contribution No data Address Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße 52425 Juelich See on map Total cost No data Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH - Technik und Umwelt Germany EU contribution No data Address 76021 Karlsruhe See on map Total cost No data Netherlands Energy Research Foundation Netherlands EU contribution No data Address 3,Westerduinweg 1755 LE Petten See on map Total cost No data United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Culham Laboratory OX14 3DB Abingdon See on map Total cost No data Uppsala University Sweden EU contribution No data Address 611 82 Studsvik See on map Total cost No data
