Safety of ACtinide Separation proceSSes (SACSESS)
Research Project, 2013
– 2016
Nuclear power plays a key role in limiting EUs greenhouse gases emissions, and makes an important contribution to improve European Unions independence, security and diversity of energy supply. However, its social acceptance is closely linked to an enhanced safety in the management of long-lived radioactive waste contributing to resource efficiency and cost-effectiveness of this energy and ensuring a robust and socially acceptable system of protection of man and environment. Among the different strategies, partitioning and transmutation (P&T) allows a reduction of the amount, the radiotoxicity and the thermal power of these wastes, leading to an optimal use of geological repository sites.In line with the Strategic Research Agenda of SNE-TP, the SACSESS collaborative project will provide a structured framework to enhance the fuel cycle safety associated to P&T. In addition, safety studies will be performed for each selected process to identify weak points to be studied further. These data will be integrated to optimise flowsheets and process operation conditions.A training and education programme will be implemented in close collaboration with other European initiatives, addressing safety issues of nuclear energy industry.The multidisciplinary consortium composed of European universities, nuclear research bodies, TSOs and industrial stakeholders will generate fundamental safety improvements on the future design of an Advanced Processing Unit. SACSESS will thus be an essential contribution to the demonstration of the potential benefits of actinide partitioning to the global safety of the long-lived waste management.
Participants
Christian Ekberg (contact)
Nuclear Chemistry
Jenny Halleröd
Nuclear Chemistry
Collaborations
Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI)
Tokyo, Japan
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
Paris, France
Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas (Ciemat)
Madrid, Spain
Czech Technical University in Prague
Praha, Czech Republic
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Juelich, Germany
Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire (IRSN)
Fontenay Aux Roses, France
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
Husinec-Rez, Czech Republic
Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology (ICTHJ)
Warszawa, Poland
Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA)
Roma, Italy
Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission
Brussels, Belgium
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Karlsruhe, Germany
Lagrange
Paris, France
Lancaster University
Lancaster, United Kingdom
National Nuclear Laboratory
Seascale, United Kingdom
Nuclear Research Institute Rez
Husinec, Czech Republic
Paul Scherrer Institut
Villigen, Switzerland
Polytechnic University of Milan
Milano, Italy
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
University of Leeds
Leeds, United Kingdom
University of Manchester
Manchester, United Kingdom
University of Parma
Parma, Italy
University of Reading
Reading, United Kingdom
University of Strasbourg
Strasbourg, France
University of Twente
Enschede, Netherlands
Funding
European Commission (EC)
Project ID: EC/FP7/323282
Funding Chalmers participation during 2013–2016