Assessment of Regional CApabilities for new reactors Development through an Integrated Approach (ARCADIA)

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Period
01.11.2013 - 31.10.2016
Project status
Completed
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The ARCADIA project has been conceived so as to provide a twofold support to the further development of nuclear research programs in the NMS, targeting two major areas included in the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda of SNETP: ESNII, through the support of the ALFRED project towards its realization in Romania, and NUGENIA, approaching remaining safety aspects of Gen III/III+ that could be built in Lithuania, Poland ,Czech Republic and Slovenia.
On one hand, it focuses on the identification of the primary needs for the ALFRED project, mainly to what concerns E&T, supporting Infrastructures and Regulatory aspects (and integrating – for the R&D needs – the outcomes of other research projects in a common frame of National and Regional needs); on the other hand, it investigates the existing National and Regional supporting structures – with a particular attention to the ones in Romania and in all the participating New Member States – for defining a map of competences potentially eligible to satisfy the previously identified needs.
The entire work dedicated to ALFRED project will be performed within the frame of strategic orientations to be compiled for the ALFRED project, and with the scientific, technical and regulatory advising of the costituendum provisional ALFRED consortium on one side, and of the Romanian Regulatory Body on the other side.
Finally, Networking, Cooperation and Dissemination activities will provide the connection with the international scientific community, with the European institutional organizations and with the general public, for ensuring the soundness and palatability of both Gen III/III+ and ALFRED projects in general.

LEI ACTIVITIES IN THE PROJECT

Analysis of National licensing framework in order to identify the procedural steps, the needed documents, the expected level of details, and the competences to be involved.
Overview of requirements related to control of radioactive releases into the environment, monitoring and waste management.
Share experience gained in preparing siting, environment impact assessment (including meetings with the public) of various nuclear facilities at the Ignalina NPP region.
Support in activities related to evaluation of expected social impacts.
Development, hosting and maintenance of the Project’s Website during the Project period.

Total cost: 1 961 683 EUR (LEI part: 89 850,00 EUR)

Coordinator: REGIA AUTONOMA TEHNOLOGII PENTRU ENERGIA NUCLEARA – RATEN, Romania

Participants:

  • REGIA AUTONOMA PENTRU ACTIVITATI NUCLEARE DROBETA TR. SEVERIN RA SUCURSALA CERCETARI NUCLEARE PITESTI, Romania
  • INSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN, Slovenia
  • STUDIECENTRUM VOOR KERNENERGIE/CENTRE D’ETUDE DE L’ENERGIE NUCLÉAIRE, Belgium
  • AGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, L’ENERGIA E LO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE, Italy
  • ARAO – Agencija za radioaktivne odpadke, Slovenia
  • BUDAPESTI MUSZAKI ES GAZDASAGTUDOMANYI EGYETEM, Hungary
  • TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA, Bulgaria
  • INSTITUT SYMLOG, France
  • AGENZIA PER LA PROMOZIONE DELLA RICERCA EUROPEA, Italy
  • UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI, Romania
  • UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI, Slovenia
  • LIETUVOS ENERGETIKOS INSTITUTAS, Lithuania
  • INSTYTUT CHEMII I TECHNIKI JADROWEJ, Poland
  • INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR RESEARCH AND NUCLEAR ENERGY – BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Bulgaria
  • CENTRALNE LABORATORIUM OCHRONY RADIOLOGICZNEJ, Poland
  • NARODOWE CENTRUM BADAN JADROWYCH, Poland
  • INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SURETE NUCLEAIRE, France
  • REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE -REC, Hungary
  • ANSALDO NUCLEARE SPA, Italy
  • UNIVERSITATEA DIN PITESTI, Romania
  • CENTRUM VYZKUMU REZ S.R.O., Czech Republic
  • KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN, Sweden
  • TARTU ULIKOOL, Estonia
  • INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TECNICO, Portugal
  • NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH “DEMOKRITOS” Greece
  • REGIA AUTONOMA PENTRU ACTIVITATI NUCLEARE RA, Romania

 

Related scientific publications

Diaconu D., Constantin M., Grasso G., Glinatsis G., Di Gabriele F., Alemberti A., De Bruyn D., Urbonavičius E. [LEI]. The Arcadia project in support of the Alfred concept In: 2014 22nd International Conference on Nuclear Engineering Prague, Czech Republic, July 7–11, 2014. Prague: ASME, 2017, p. 1-6. ISBN 978-0-7918-4593-6.