Review of Euratom projects on design, safety assessment, R&D and licensing for ESNII/Gen-IV fast neutron systems

Konstantin Mikityuk (1) , Luca Ammirabile (2) , Massimo Forni (3) , Jacek Jagielski (4) , Nathalie Girault (5) , Akos Horvath (6) , Jan-Leen Kloosterman (7) , Mariano Tarantino (3) , Alfredo Vasile (8)

1 PSI - Paul Scherrer Institute
2 IET - JRC Institute for Energy and Transport
3 ENEA - Agenzia Nazionale per le nuove Tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile = Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
4 NCBJ - National Center for Nuclear Research [Warsaw]
5 IRSN - Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire
6 MTAE - Centre for Energy Research [Budapest]
7 Department of Aerospace Structures and Materials [Delft]
8 CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives

Nine Euratom projects started since late 2011 in support of the infrastructure and R&D of the seven fast reactor systems are briefly presented in the paper in terms of key objectives, results and recommendations.

Domains: Physics [physics]

Konstantin Mikityuk, Luca Ammirabile, Massimo Forni, Jacek Jagielski, Nathalie Girault, et al.. Review of Euratom projects on design, safety assessment, R&D and licensing for ESNII/Gen-IV fast neutron systems. EPJ N - Nuclear Sciences & Technologies, 2020, 6, pp.36. ⟨10.1051/epjn/2019007⟩. ⟨cea-03238782⟩