Ensuring Assessment of Safety Innovations for SMR (EASI-SMR)

The EASI-SMR project intends to address the safety issues related to the LW-SMR in order to provide advances that should support implementation of such technologies as soon as possible. The EASI SMR project activities are aimed at ensuring that these reactors will be designed, constructed, commissioned and operated in the safest possible way and in accordance with existing regulations. The consortium was carefully chosen so that the research entities can provide the necessary research teams and support facilities across the European Continent and beyond.

EASI-SMR will address the safety issues associated with major LW-SMR innovations:

• Passive systems
• Soluble Boron-free cores
• Co-generation and hybridation
• Additive manufacturing to improve compactness of Nuclear Steam Supply System
• Multi-units operation

The work aims to provide insights for European LW-SMR projects, in particular:

• NUWARD SMR, a French design of a reactor generating 170 MW of electricity production.
• LDR-50, a Finnish design of a district heating reactor of 50 MW

EASI-SMR is closely linked with NUGENIA TA6 and the European SMR pre-Partnership’s WS5.
 

 
Keywords:

Small Modular Reactors (SMR), Passive safety system, streamlined licensing, code-validation, reliability assessment, nuclear physics

Acronym: EASI-SMR

Project ID: 101164810

Call: HORIZON-EURATOM-2023-NRT-01

Total cost: 19 934 030,51 EUR (LEI part: 206 750,00 EUR).

Coordinator: ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE, France.

Participants:

• ASOCIACION DE INVESTIGACION METALURGICA DEL NOROESTE, Spain
• ANSALDO NUCLEARE SPA, Italy
• BEL V, Belgium
• COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, France
• CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES ENERGETICAS MEDIOAMBIENTALES Y TECNOLOGICAS, Spain
• CONSORZIO INTERUNIVERSITARIO NAZIONALE PER LA RICERCA TECNOLOGICA NUCLEARE , Italy
• UNIVERSITA DI PISA, Italy
• POLITECNICO DI MILANO, Italy
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA, Italy
• CENTRALNE LABORATORIUM OCHRONY RADIOLOGICZNEJ, Poland
• AGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, L’ENERGIA E LO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE, Italy
• EUROPEAN NUCLEAR EDUCATION NETWORK, Belgium
• LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ENERGORISK, Ukraine;
• FRAMATOME, France
• FRAMATOME GMBH, Germany
• GESELLSCHAFT FUR ANLAGEN UND REAKTORSICHERHEIT (GRS) gGmbH, Germany
• HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM DRESDEN-ROSSENDORF EV, Germany
• INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SURETE NUCLEAIRE, France
• JRC -JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE- EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Belgium
• INSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN, Slovenia
• KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE, Germany
• LIETUVOS ENERGETIKOS INSTITUTAS, Lithuania
• LAPPEENRANNAN-LAHDEN TEKNILLINEN YLIOPISTO LUT, Finland
• NUCLEAR RESEARCH AND CONSULTANCY GROUP, Netherlands
• RUHR-UNIVERSITAET BOCHUM, Germany
• SOCIETA INFORMAZIONI ESPERIENZE TERMOIDRAULICHE SPA ENUNCIABILE ANCHE, Italy
• STATE ENTERPRISE “STATE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL CENTER FOR NUCLEAR AND RADIATION SAFETY”, Ukraine
• SWERIM AB, Sweden
• TRACTEBEL ENGINEERING S.A., Belgium
• UJV REZ AS, Czech Republic
• TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT OY, Finland
• LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ANALYTICAL RESEARCH BUREAU FOR NPP SAFETY, Ukraine
• FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH GMBH, Germany
• KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN, Sweden
• NINE NUCLEAR AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING SRL, Italy
• NARODOWE CENTRUM BADAN JADROWYCH, Poland

Partners:

• THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, United Kingdom;
• PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUT, Switzerland;
• INSTITUTT FOR ENERGITEKNIKK, Norway;
• EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH, Switzerland.

 

This project has received funding from the EU Euratom Research and Training Programme under grant agreement No. 101164810.