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Technology-oriented investigations were also performed, such as feasibility tests for the planning of long-term investigations, detector calibration, leakage spectrum measurements, or calibration of dosemeters. The scientific quality of all the proposals was high and some very fundamental questions were addressed, which will certainly be of interest to the nuclear data community as a whole. Knowledge exchange with new users of the JRC-IRMM facilities is also an important aspect of the NUDAME programme and has contributed to the development and improvement of the state-of-the-art data acquisition systems at the facility. Excellent support for small research groups The majority of the experimental proposals came from small European research groups. The approved 18 experiments were proposed by 96 researchers from 22 European institutions and most of the applicants were first-time users of the respective facility at JRC-IRMM. The chosen experiments addressed a wide area of research from fundamental scientific topics in nuclear physics to specific technical aspects of advanced novel measurement techniques. The large amount of beam time requested was a clear evidence for the usefulness of this support programme to enable small research groups to use the specialised facilities of JRC-IRMM. In addition, the project promotes the awareness for the work programme of the European Commission in the nuclear field throughout the academic and wider world. Public events A user workshop will be organised at JRC-IRMM in early 2008. Beam lines for measurements with quasi-monoenergetic neutrons at the Van de Graaff facility MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE Partitioning and transmutation © EC-JRC-IRMM Coordinator Peter Rullhusen EC-DG JRC-IRMM Retieseweg 111 B-2440 Geel Tel. (32-14) 57 14 76 Fax (32-14) 57 18 62 peter.rullhusen@ec.europa.eu www.irmm.jrc.be I N F O R M A T I O N Project details Project type: Transnational Access to Large Infrastructures Project start date: 01/04/2005 Duration: 36 months Total budget: EUR 264 580 EC contribution: EUR 264 580 EC Project Officer: Ved Bhatnagar European Commission Directorate-General for Research Unit J. 2 – Fission CDMA 1/46 B-1049 Brussels Tel. (32-2) 299 58 96 Fax (32-2) 295 49 91 45
46 PATEROS PARTITIONING AND TRANSMUTATION EUROPEAN ROADMAP FOR SUSTAINABLE NUCLEAR ENERGY TOWARDS A EUROPEAN P&T STRATEGY The objectives of the PATEROS Coordination Action are to deliver a European vision for the deployment of partitioning and transmutation technology up to the pilot plant scale for all the components of this high-level radioactive waste minimisation process. A European waste vision Partitioning and transmutation (P&T) technologies cover a promising process for the separation (partitioning) of the most radiotoxic elements in high-level nuclear waste and spent fuel and the nuclear transformation (transmutation) of these long-lived elements to other elemental isotopes that are less radiotoxic and/or with much shorter radioactive half lives. A successful process could significantly reduce the time that radioactive waste remains hazardous. The PATEROS coordination action involves 17 partners from 11 European countries. Within the consortium are research centres, universities and industrial partners. The ambition of the consortium is to build on what has been already accomplished to present a holistic vision of the deployment of P&T technology in Europe up to pilot plant scale. Inputs to the project will include studies from FP5 and the first and second calls of FP6 as well as the outcomes of national programmes throughout Europe, in the USA, Japan and Korea and by international organisations such as OECD’s Nuclear Energy Agency and the International Atomic Energy Agency. This coordination action will work closely with the SNF-TP (Sustainable Nuclear Fission Technology Platform) coordination action. The rationale for value-added P&T The project will analyse the rationale and added value of P&T for waste management policies in various EU member states. Acting like a ‘think tank’, all the partners represented will deliver input data on waste inventory, number and capacity of the corresponding projected P&T facilities needed at the industrial scale. This data will be reviewed and the relevant and most promising national fuel cycle strategies in Europe will be selected. The analysis will be supplemented by pertinent regional context to define the required waste installations, milestones and developments. This regional approach is the most appealing from the technical point of view in order to accommodate varying national positions towards nuclear energy as well as from the proliferation resistance and the economical feasibility point of views. Research needs and related timescales for the development of high-efficiency pilot-scale equipment and processes will be determined covering both aqueous and pyroreprocessing technologies. In parallel the content and timescale for research related to fabrication of transmutation fuels up to pilot-scale operation will be considered and the demonstration of their ability to be appropriately licensed examined. Further definition of the key research and technological facilities, in particular irradiation facilities, required for the demonstration of high level waste transmutation before the final industrial transmutation facility can be considered at industrial scale will be determined. These may range from thermal to fast neutron spectrum and from critical to sub-critical reactor systems including coolant technology demonstration facilities. What, where and when All the findings of the various project components will be integrated and the required resources evaluated for the time span leading up to the industrial deployment of P&T with an indication of the critical milestones to be passed on the way. A final report will contain information on the anticipated waste flow that should be channelled to the P&T facilities, the number and capacities of projected facilities at industrial scale, the R&D fuel cycle facilities required, and the transmutation and associated tech - nologies described in terms of a time schedule for deployment at the European scale. Formal information exchange with the parallel SNF-TP project is envisaged at two main milestones (12 and 18 months from kick-off) to provide the basis for further iteration with the objective to eventually merge PATEROS into the SNF Technology Platform. EURATOM FP6 RESEARCH PROJECTS AND TRAINING ACTIVITIES Volume III
Page 1 and 2: PROJECT SYNOPSES Euratom FP6 Resear
Page 3 and 4: EUROPEAN COMMISSION Euratom FP6 Res
Page 5 and 6: CONTENTS Introduction 5 FP6 researc
Page 7 and 8: 6 isolation. However, in parallel t
Page 9 and 10: 8 ❚ CARD - A CA assessing the fea
Page 11 and 12: 10 The funded projects described ar
Page 13 and 14: 12 Forward to FP7 The Seventh Eurat
Page 15 and 16: MARK S MANY ND ITALY SWEDEN CZECH R
Page 17 and 18: 18 ARGONA ARENAS FOR RISK GOVERNANC
Page 19 and 20: 20 CARD COORDINATION ACTION FOR THE
Page 21 and 22: 22 CATT COOPERATION AND TECHNOLOGY
Page 23 and 24: 24 CIP Over a number of European re
Page 25 and 26: 26 MICADO MODEL UNCERTAINTY FOR THE
Page 27 and 28: 28 OBRA EUROPEAN OBSERVATORY FOR LO
Page 29 and 30: 30 PAMINA The main objective of the
Page 31 and 32: 32 SAPIERR-II STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN
Page 33 and 34: 34 THERESA Nuclear power plants, wh
Page 35 and 36: 36 TIMODAZ The management of spent
Page 37 and 38: 38 CANDIDE COORDINATION ACTION ON N
Page 39 and 40: 40 EFNUDAT EUROPEAN FACILITIES FOR
Page 41 and 42: 42 LWR-DEPUTY The LWR-DEPUTY initia
Page 43: 44 NUDAME The NUDAME project is a t
Page 47 and 48: 48 PuMA Sustainability is a key iss
Page 49 and 50: 50 VELLA The VELLA (Virtual Europea
Page 51 and 52: Quantification of risks associated
Page 53 and 54: second was aimed to check the feasi
Page 55 and 56: extreme overreaction to radiotherap
Page 57 and 58: Understanding individual response S
Page 59 and 60: ties and to study how these genes a
Page 61 and 62: NOTE will investigate if ionising r
Page 63 and 64: an assessment will be made of how t
Page 65 and 66: The PROTECT project will assist in
Page 67 and 68: e widely distributed among national
Page 69 and 70: 72 ALISIA ASSESSMENT OF LIQUID SALT
Page 71 and 72: 74 EISOFAR The EISOFAR Specific Sup
Page 73 and 74: 76 ELSY The ELSY project aims to de
Page 75 and 76: 78 HPLWR Phase 2 Supercritical wate
Page 77 and 78: 80 ENEN-II EUROPEAN NUCLEAR EDUCATI
Page 79 and 80: 82 ANTIOXI A DETERMINISTIC MODEL FO
Page 81 and 82: 84 MAGIC The MAGIC project is a two
Page 83 and 84: 86 NULIFE The NULIFE Network of Ex
Page 85 and 86: 88 MTR+I3 INTEGRATED INFRASTRUCTURE
Page 87 and 88: 90 NICODEME TEST FACILITIES IN PRES
Page 89 and 90: 92 PLINIUS FP6 This initiative offe
Page 91 and 92: 94 SNF-TP SUSTAINABLE NUCLEAR FISSI
Page 93 and 94: 96 Glossary The texts in this gloss
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98 Typical characteristics of high-
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Index of projects ALISIA 72 ANTIOXI
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