Category: orient-nm

Coordinated by Lorenzo Malerba, CIEMAT (ES)

This work package deals with the coordination and management of the action, to ensure the fulfilment of its objectives and its smooth and timely operation, including monitoring of achievement of milestones, submission of deliverables, organisation of the coordination meetings, as well as administration of the project budget and contractual obligations towards the EC, for instance project reports. The establishment of a CA is also part of this WP.

Coordinated by Maria Luisa Fernandez Vanoni, EERA (BE)

Objectives

• Raise awareness and increase visibility, ensuring wide dissemination and uptake of results
• Reach out to different groups of stake-holders to inform and engage them, ensuring a fruitful contribution to ORIENT-NM activities and objectives
• Support the communication and dissemination activities in other work packages
• Organise the two key workshops for the interaction with the stake-holders

Main results

• Dissemination and communication strategy and plan
• Dissemination and communication strategy and plan – update year 1
• Public summary of the 1st workshop
• Dissemination and communication strategy and plan – update year 2
• Public summary of the 2nd workshop

Coordinated by Angelika Bohnstedt, KIT (DE)

Objectives

• To generate protocols for the interaction with stake-holders other than MS and EC, including options for collaboration with international organisations concerning standardization/design codes, safety, data/knowledge management, fusion, and other low carbon energy technologies.
• Verification of the consistency of the SRA with the availability of nuclear materials infrastructures and proposal for their joint management.

Main results

• Draft protocol of European Joint Programme interaction with international organizations
• Draft protocol of EJP collaboration with standardization, data and knowledge management and safety bodies
• Draft protocol of collaboration of EJP with EUROfusion, including identification of cross-cutting issues and proposed funding policies
• Draft report of Synergies with non-nuclear energy technologies
• Draft report on availability and future plans of MTRs and consistency with JHR roadmap
• Draft report on the possibilities opened for nuclear materials by the ESFRII roadmap nuclear infrastructures
• Preliminary plan for a joint European forum for the coordination of nuclear infrastructure management
• Revised protocol of European Joint Programme interaction with international organizations
• Revised protocol of EJP collaboration with standardization, data and knowledge management and safety bodies
• Revised protocol of collaboration of EJP with EUROfusion, including identification of cross-cutting issues and proposed funding policies
• Revised report of Synergies with non-nuclear energy technologies
• Revised report on availability and future plans of MTRs and consistency with JHR roadmap
• Revised report on the possibilities opened for nuclear materials by the ESFRII roadmap nuclear infrastructures
• Final possible plan for a joint European forum for the coordination of nuclear infrastructure management

Coordinated by Petri Kinnunen, VTT (FI) and Ulla Ehrnsten, VTT (FI)

This work package deals with organising the EJP in all of its aspects. Organising includes not only setting the organisation itself (governance and structure) but also the legal issues, implementation, resourcing, quality management, education and training, data and knowledge management.

Main results

• European Joint Programme structure (draft)
• Legal issues related to European Joint Programme on Nuclear Materials (draft)
• European Joint Programme structure (revised)
• Resource analysis (draft)
• European Joint Programme implementation and quality plan (draft)
• Education & Training, mobility and dissemination plan (draft)
• Legal issues related to European Joint Programme on Nuclear Materials (final)
• European Joint Programme structure (final)
• Resource analysis (final)
• European Joint Programme implementation and quality plan (final)
• Education & Training, mobility and dissemination plan (final)

Coordinated by Marjorie Bertolus CEA (FR) and Abderrahim Al Mazouzi EDF (FR)

Objectives

• Set the bases for a European rational classification of the R&D priorities on the various types of materials, taking into account the EU MS interests, industrial feasibility and market needs;
• Identify framework and define spectrum and scope of R&D activities for an EJP on nuclear materials;
• Produce a vision paper describing the framework of an EJP on nuclear materials;
• Produce a consensual SRA with short and long term vision, including consideration of issues such as standardization of processes, circular economy, and cross cutting aspects in nuclear (fission-fusion) and other industrial fields.

References and criteria: EU MS national research programmes; European strategic priorities; European industrial needs toward sustainable, safe and efficient nuclear energy; complementarity of research effort; current and future nuclear systems.

Main results

• Nuclear materials’ identity cards
• Vision paper (first version)
• Strategic Research Agenda (first version)
• Strategic Research Agenda (intermediate version)
• Vision paper (final version)
• Strategic Research Agenda (final version)

Coordinated by: Mariano Tarantino, ENEA (IT) and Barbara Ferrucci, ENEA (IT)

The main objetive of WP1 is to engage Member States (MS) representatives in a two-way dialogue:

MS -> CSA: to collect information on national programmes, analyse MS interest for an EJP on nuclear materials (NM), at which conditions and complying with what rules, e.g.: How is R&D managed at national level? Who are the national actors involved in NM R&D? Is there a national programme on NM? If so, what is its content and which are the priorities? Which important nuclear facilities are available? Which plans exist for their future? Under which conditions is there availability to share them? Which co-funding schemes does each MS envisage? Which scientific, technological and socio-economic, challenges do the MS expect the EJP to help address? Which E&T needs?

CSA -> MS: to provide all information (e.g. SRA from WP2, socio-economic benefits, structure and possible implementation, financial aspects from WP3, interaction with external world from WP4) to facilitate MSs judgment about the prospects and opportunities offered by an EJP on NM, including use of their experimental infrastructure, in the form of documents and presentations. This dialogue will have to be based on: direct contact (e-mail, phone), remote meetings (videoconferences or phone conferences), a preparatory meeting at the EC premises around month 8, and two large workshops organized within the CSA at months 12 and 24 (see WP5).

The main outcome of the WP will be a critical assessment of the added value of an EJP on NM, based on the information collected from MS and from other WPs.

Main results

• Mapping of key national contacts and R&D actors and infrastructures
• Questionnaire to request input from MS and relevant national committees
• Summary of national programmes on nuclear materials
• Critical assessment of the added value of a EJP on nuclear materials (preliminary)
• Demonstration of the added value of a EJP on nuclear materials (final)

Coordination Group

• Project coordinator: Lorenzo Malerba, CIEMAT (ES)
• Work Package 1 co-coordinator: Mariano Tarantino, ENEA (IT)
• Work Package 1 co-coordinator: Barbara Ferrucci, ENEA (IT)
• Work Package 2 co-coordinator: Marjorie Bertolus, CEA (FR)
• Work Package 2 co-coordinator: Abderrahim Al Mazouzi, EDF (FR)
• Work Package 3 co-coordinator: Petri Kinnunen, VTT (FI)
• Work Package 3 co-coordinator: Ulla Ehrnsten, VTT (FI)
• Work Package 4 coordinator: Angelika Bohnstedt, KIT (DE)
• Work Package 5 coordinator: Maria Luisa Fernandez Vanoni, EERA (BE)

Governing Board

• Pietro Agostini, ENEA (IT)
• Danes Burket, CV Rez (CZ)
• Leon Cizelj, SNETP (BE)
• Daniela Diaconu, RATEN-INR (RO)
• Adel El Gammal, EERA (BE)
• Concetta Fazio, EC-JRC (EU)
• Ralph Hania, NRG (NL)
• Valérie L’Hostis, CEA (FR)
• Eric Molinié, EDF (FR)
• Tommi Nyman, VTT (FI)
• Pär Olsson, KTH (SE)
• José Manuel Pérez, CIEMAT (ES)
• Walter Tromm, KIT (DE)
• Sven Van den Berghe, SCK-CEN (BE)
• Marcin Kardas, NCBJ (PL)

The objectives of ORIENT-NM are:

• To design a plan for a European Joint Programme (EJP1) on nuclear materials, in all its aspects, that is:
  • To produce a convincing strategic research agenda (SRA) for materials for all nuclear fission reactor generations, projected until 2040, with special focus on a plan for the first 5 years. This SRA will be consistent with national programmes and industrial needs, including supply chain constraints, while paying attention to standardisation issues and verifying the availability of suitable infrastructures.
  • To elaborate an efficient EJP governance and legal structure, including attention for decision-making processes, intellectual property issues, promotion of innovation and analysis of potentially available financial (and human) resources, as well as an implementation scheme caring among others for quality assurance (QA), SRA updating, knowledge and data management; all this considering different possible scenarios, depending on the resources that are actually available.
  • To identify appropriate ways of interactions between the EJP and other bodies and initiatives that bear connections with nuclear materials (stake-holders), including international organisations, standardisation bodies, technical safety organisations (TSO) and possibly safety authorities as well, fusion and non-nuclear energy communities and other associations, while addressing the issue of a coordinated use of nuclear materials infrastructures.
• Define all of the above in close dialogue with Member States (MS) and European Commission (EC), as well as all other stake-holders, in order to meet their requirements and expectations from an EJP on nuclear materials and raise the interest of identified research owners and research managers, by demonstrating the added value of such EJP.

Accordingly, ORIENT-NM will:

• Produce a convincing strategic research agenda (SRA) for materials for all nuclear fission reactor generations, projected until 2040, with special focus on a plan for the first 5 years. This SRA will be consistent with national programmes and industrial needs, including supply chain constraints, while paying attention to standardisation issues and verifying the availability of suitable infrastructures
• Elaborate an efficient CEP governance and legal structure, including attention for decision-making processes, intellectual property issues, promotion of innovation and analysis of potentially available financial (and human) resources, as well as an implementation scheme caring among others for quality assurance, SRA updating, knowledge and data management; all this considering different possible scenarios, depending on the resources that are actually available
• Identify appropriate ways of interactions between the CEP and other bodies and initiatives that bear connections with nuclear materials (stake-holders), including international organisations, standardisation bodies, technical safety organisations, fusion and non-nuclear energy communities, other associations, while addressing the issue of a coordinated use of nuclear materials infrastructures

Coordinated by Lorenzo Malerba, CIEMAT (ES)