WHAT IS OUR AMBITION?
The European Green Deal, Fit for 55 policy package and REPowerEU pave the
way to ambitious environmental and energy sovereignty challenges in Europe. Emerging low
carbon technologies, like small modular reactors (SMRs) have a great potential to
play a key
role in driving energy transition and industry decarbonisation in Europe.
Thanks to their innovative safety features, SMRs have the capacity to integrate nuclear
technologies into new industrial applications and make them more attractive to potential
investors. SMRs can contribute to decarbonising sectors with hard-to-abate emissions
such as
transport, chemical and steel industry, and district heating.
At the same time, challenges still exist in validating the business case for
SMRs, assuring
licensing processes, developing global supply chains and achieving a transparent
dialogue
model between the concerned stakeholders.
The “Ensuring Assessment of Safety Innovation for SMR” (EASI-SMR) project
falls within this
framework and aims to resolve the safety issues associated with major Light-Water
Small
Modular Reactors (LW-SMR) innovations, to support implementation of such technologies as
soon as possible across the European Continent and beyond.
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Ensuring the safety of SMRs to ease their rapid deployment in Europe.
KEY INSIGHTS
Facilitate the licensing of LW-SMR designs
OBJECTIVES
- Ensure the highest level of safety of LW-SMRs based on passive systems
- Assess the safety impact of LW-SMRs designs’ specificities
- Address regulatory and societal challenges towards the deployment of SMRs in Europe
EXPECTED IMPACTS
- Enhanced safety assessment of passive systems
- Improved regulatory approval for nuclear components fabricated by additive manufacturing techniques.
- Advanced methods and tools for LW-SMR boron free core analysis
- Improved understanding of Human & Organisational factors at stake in LW-SMRs operation
- Support a shared and coherent approach among regulators regarding safety requirements for LW-SMRs
- Better understanding and acceptance of LW-SMRs in the EU
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