Unipi Team Leader: Prof. Nicola Forgione, Dip. di Ingegneria civile e industriale
The European Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform (SNETP) and the European Sustainable Nuclear Industrial Initiative (ESNII) give an important role to the future application of fast reactors for the production of sustainable nuclear energy.
In Europe, three demonstration projects currently have a promising outlook: ASTRID, a Sodium cooled Fast Reactor (SFR) prototype, launched by CEA and gathering European and international public and private partnerships; MYRRHA, a multipurpose fast neutron spectrum irradiation facility proposed to operate as a European large research infrastructure, and to serve as an experimental pilot plant for the lead technology; and ALFRED, a programme targeting the construction of a Lead cooled Fast Reactor (LFR) demonstrator in Central/Eastern Europe. In addition, SEALER is a small lead cooled reactor under development by the Swedish company LeadCold, with the aim to ensure reliable and safe production of power for sites where evacuation is not an option, such as a number of arctic communities in Canada, the US, and Greenland.
SESAME supports the development of these reactors by addressing their pre-normative, fundamental and safety-related challenges through the development and validation of advanced numerical approaches for the design and safety evaluation of advanced reactors; the achievement of a new or extended validation base by creating new reference data; the establishment of best practice guidelines, verification & validation methodologies, and uncertainty quantification methods for liquid metal fast reactor thermal hydraulics.
The fundamental and generic nature of the SESAME project will also provide results of relevance to the safety assessment of contemporary light water reactors. By extending the knowledge base, it will contribute to the development of robust safety policies in EU member states. At the same time, SESAME will maintain and further develop the European experimental facilities and numerical tools.
Coordinator
ENEA, AGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, L'ENERGIA E LO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE (Italy)
Other participants
- CENTRO DI RICERCA, SVILUPPO E STUDI SUPERIORI IN SARDEGNA S.R.L. (Italy)
- UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA (Italy)
- SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME (Italy)
- LGI CONSULTING SARL (France)
- COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES (France)
- INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE (France)
- NUCLEAR RESEARCH AND CONSULTANCY GROUP (The Netherlands)
- DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (The Netherlands)
- GESELLSCHAFT FÜR ANLAGEN- UND REAKTORSICHERHEIT (GRS) GGMBH (Germany)
- HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM DRESDEN-ROSSENDORF (Germany)
- KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Germany)
- TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT MÜNCHEN (Germany)
- JOŽEF STEFAN INSTITUTE (Slovenia)
- ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Sweden)
- PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE (Switzerland)
- ASCOMP GMBH (Switzerland)
- STUDIECENTRUM VOOR KERNENERGIE/CENTRE D'ETUDE DE L'ENERGIE NUCLÉAIRE (Belgium)
- CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LOUVAIN (Belgium)
- GHENT UNIVERSITY (Belgium)
- VON KARMAN INSTITUTE FOR FLUID DYNAMICS (Belgium)
- CENTRUM VÝZKUMU ŘEŽ S.R.O. / RESEARCH CENTRE REZ (Czech Republic)
Start date 01/05/2015
End date 30/04/2019
Duration 48 months
Project cost 6.643.280 €
Project funding 5.200.000 €
Unipi quota 129.750 €
Call title NFRP-2014-2015
Unipi role Partner
Project website http://sesame-h2020.eu/