CITON capabilities and involvement in EURATOM projects

1. CITON capabilities and involvement in EURATOM projects Gabriela VLADESCUCenter of Technology and Engineering for Nuclear Projects JRC Information Day and S&T Workshops, Bucharest, 11 May 2006

2. RAAN structure and organizational chart JRC Information Day and S&T Workshops, Bucharest, 11 May 2006

3. FIELD OF ACTIVITY • Support design documentation • Safety operation monitoring documents • Pre-commissioning and in-service inspections • Consulting, engineering and technical assistance • Programs for nuclear installation operating and • maintenance personnel • Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste management • Economic evaluation and cost analyses • Bid requests and evaluations • Computer assisted design programs • Decommissioning engineering activities • Safety reports and analyses, risk evaluations • Physical protection and safeguards • Environmental impact assessment • Research and development studies CITON offers the same services for thermal power plants and other conventional or non-conventional facilities under performance provisions of Q.A. program. JRC Information Day and S&T Workshops, Bucharest, 11 May 2006

4. CITON activity has been extended in the last years with cooperation in the Research and Development Programs of the European Community 1. EURATOM (FP5 and FP6): -ENEN – European Nuclear Engineering Network -JSRI–Joint Safety Research Index -RED-IMPACT–Impact of P&T and Waste Reduction Technologies on Nuclear Waste Disposal -CETRAD–Co-ordination Action on Education and Training in Radiation Protectionand Radioactive Waste Management - NEPTUNO–Nuclear European Platform of Training and University Organisation -SENUF–Safety of Eastern European Type Nuclear Facilities - PERFECT–Predictions of the Irradiation Effects in the Reactors components -NULIFE–Nuclear Plant Life Prediction -CANDIDE–Coordination Action on Nuclear Data for Industrial Development in Europe -SAPIERRI & II–Support Action: Pilot Initiative for European Regional Repositories 2. Bilateral collaboration (PHARE project, JRC and others European companies) JRC Information Day and S&T Workshops, Bucharest, 11 May 2006

5. ENEN – European Nuclear Engineering Network Project period: 2003 ÷ 2004 • The ENEN Project was proposed in EU-FP5 Program;it involved 22Universities, R&D and training centers in nuclear field. • Project objective: to preserethe knowledge in this field and to train the next generation of specialists to replace the actual retiring one. • The main tasks performed by CITON were:to collect data and information about academic and research infrastructure at the national level, to contribute to the definition of specifique questionnaire and principle for ENEN and to identify new potential national and regional partners. CITON was involved in 3 Working Groups: • WP1 – State of nuclear education in Europe • WP2 – Operation of the network • WP10 – Experimental pilot JRC Information Day and S&T Workshops, Bucharest, 11 May 2006

6. JSRI(Joint Safety Research Index) part of FP5(JSRI/FIR-CT-2000-20089) Project period: 2003 ÷ 2004 • Objective of European Commission’sJSRI Project: to generate a database (Index) containing short reports concerning the most recent overview on nuclear reactor safety research currently performed in member countries and countries associated to the European Union. • JSRI performs support co-ordination activities, ensures collaboration and co-operation in nuclear R&D, maintains a list of items of report classification. The items of classification list present the field of the research, that subjects: Integrity and Reliability, Controlled Faults (Design Basis Accidents), Severe Accidents, Fission Products inside Primary Circuit and Containment, Containment, Risk Analysis, Others (Spent Fuel Storage and Waste Management). • CITON’s contribution (along with Nuclear Research Institute at Pitesti): 75 reports, presented from 2001 to 2005. • The JSRI-2 database can be accessed via the internet (http://w2ksrvx.ike.uni-stuttgart.de/jsri/ ) and the Romanian experts use this interface to exchange information with the European experts. • Currently, CITON offers its contribution on voluntary basis. JRC Information Day and S&T Workshops, Bucharest, 11 May 2006

7. RED-IMPACT- Impact of P&T and Waste Reduction Technologies on Nuclear Waste Disposal • Project period:2004 ÷ 2007 • Main objectives: • To assess the effects of P&T on geological disposal and waste management; • To assess the Economic, Environmental and Societal Costs/benefits of P&T; • To disseminate the results of the study to stakeholders (scientific, general public and decision makers) and to obtain feedback during the study; • To iterate and refine the work based on stake-holders’ feedback in order to achieve full impact of this study on the implementation of the waste management policy of the European Community. • CITONis involved in 3 Working Groups: • WP 1 - Waste Management and Transmutation Strategies • WP 2 - Industrial Deployment Scenarios and Database of performances • WP 4 - Waste Management & Disposal • CITON’s main task: to assess HWR capabilities for transmutation and to provide information on the Romanian Waste Management Strategies. • Project internet site: http://www.red-impact.proj.kth.se JRC Information Day and S&T Workshops, Bucharest, 11 May 2006

8. CETRAD - Co-ordination Action on Education and Training in Radiation Protection and Radioactive Waste Management • Project period: 2004 ÷ 2005 • Main objectives: • to identify the real educational and training needs. • to assess the current resources within Europe in this area, both amongst network members and other target groups. • to develop and to evaluate the options for fulfilling the needs identified in the first two objectives mentioned above. • to integrate the education and training across all sectors. • CITON is involved in 2 Working Groups: - WP 2 -Review of educational and training needs - WP 3 - Project workshop JRC Information Day and S&T Workshops, Bucharest, 11 May 2006

9. NEPTUNO - Nuclear European Platform of Training and University Organisations • Project period: 2004 ÷ 2005 • NEPTUNO Project representsthe FP6 extensionof the FP5 ENEN project. • Main objectives: • a better integration of the European education and training in nuclear engineering and safety activities; • to combat the decline in both student numbers and teaching establishments, thus providing the necessary competence and expertise for the continued safe use of nuclear energy and other uses of radiation in industry and medicine. • The project focuses on a harmonised approach for education and training in nuclear engineering field in Europe and its implementation, including the better integration of national (governmental as well as industrial) resources and capabilities. • CITON is involved 3 Working Groups: - WP 1 -State of the art on education and training - WP 2 - Knowledge Management, E-learning, Visibility - WP 6 - Pilot experiences JRC Information Day and S&T Workshops, Bucharest, 11 May 2006

10. PERFECT(Predictions of the Irradiation Effects in the Reactors components) • The main Program objective: to create new instruments to be used in solving the problems arose by irradiation embitterment in the main components of the light water reactors. • The project shall be developed till 2008. • CITON is involved in the following activities: • in performing a collective exercise, in order to evaluate reactor mechanical components behaviour in radiation field. • in the application of the new instruments in international programs (computers programs, computer models to simulate reactor pressure vessels). • in the dissemination of the collective exercise results and evaluation instruments in the European nuclear industry. • CITON is memberof User Group. JRC Information Day and S&T Workshops, Bucharest, 11 May 2006

11. SENUF(Safety of Eastern European Type Nuclear Facilities) Program • The overall objectives are: • to facilitate the harmonisation of the Safety Culture between European Community and the Acceding and Candidate Countries (ACC). • to identify and understand the need to enhance the nuclear safety in the ACC. • to disseminate nuclear safety institutional activities of the Institute for Energy to ACC. • SITON is involved in the Nuclear Power Plant Maintenance Working Group, which will cover the following range of activities: • to review and identify the open (generic / specific) maintenance studies and expertises. • to promote the well-designed and prepared maintenance plans for systems, structures and components. • to support the implementation of the advanced maintenance approaches, including the preventive (condition based) maintenance as well as preventive mitigation measures. • to evaluate the advanced risk based maintenance approach and provisions of assistance in its implementation. • The project is scheduled till 2008, with some aspects (like the Data Base) which shall be continued. JRC Information Day and S&T Workshops, Bucharest, 11 May 2006

12. NULIFE(Nuclear Plant Life Prediction) Program (1) The Program objectives are: • to create a Europe – wide body in order to achieve scientific and technical excellence in residual lifetime prediction methodologies and to translate these into harmonised and qualified procedures as part of the Common Safety Justification Framework. • to form a critical mass and durable integration of coordinated effort from utilities and R&D organisations to exploit European residual lifetime expertise and know-how at the world level, and to assure the effective support and dialog of regulatory bodies and industries involved in plant modernisation, construction of systems and components. JRC Information Day and S&T Workshops, Bucharest, 11 May 2006

13. NULIFE (Nuclear Plant Life Prediction) Program(2) • to progressively create a durable research capacity to initiate, prioritise and coordinate future European R&D programs in the area, with the potential to evolve to a virtual R&D institute. • to optimise the use of European public and private R&D infrastructures and mobility of experts with a view to achieve sustainability beyond EC funding and develop appropriate quality and performance criteria. • to demonstrate the usability of the integrated research capacity through a number of pilot studies, and to propose educational and training activities in order to assure the supply of highly competent personnel serving the needs of the end users. • to integrate and promote the use of the results from previous and on-going networks and EC framework projects. JRC Information Day and S&T Workshops, Bucharest, 11 May 2006

14. NULIFE (Nuclear Plant Life Prediction) Program(3) As a general Program for NPP life prediction, it consider following activities: • Materials analyse and material ageing phenomena • Assessment of the components integrity • Assessment of safety, risk and reliability • Use of experimental facilities and analysis tools for components ageing evaluation • Writing appropriate procedures and their harmonisation at the E.C. level • Identification of the necessary complementary research topics; new codes and standards • Create a Data Base • Dissemination of the results JRC Information Day and S&T Workshops, Bucharest, 11 May 2006

15. CANDIDE – Coordination Action on Nuclear Data for Industrial Development in Europe • Mainobjectives: • to establish better links between academia, research centres and industry end users of nuclear data • to assess nuclear data needs for advanced nuclear reactors;the emphasis is on radioactive waste issues, i.e., either waste transmutation in critical or sub-critical devices or minimizing the production of nuclear waste in future reactors, as envisaged in, e.g., the Generation IV systems. • CITON will be involved in Working Group 4 – Nuclear Data Needs JRC Information Day and S&T Workshops, Bucharest, 11 May 2006

16. SAPIERR I & II - Support Action: Pilot Initiative for European Regional Repositories • Bilateral Agreement with the project coordinator, DECOM Slovakia. • CITON was involved in the following main objectives of the SAPIERR I: • to support the feasibility evaluation for a potential regional repository in Europe; • to develop the legal framework regarding regional disposal; • to assess the potential radioactive inventory. • Currently, CITON is part of the SAPIERR II working group. JRC Information Day and S&T Workshops, Bucharest, 11 May 2006

17. Bilateral collaboration(PHARE, JRC and others European companies) CITON is also involved in bilateral collaboration (PHARE Project, JRC and others European companies): • QUINTESSA Ltd, England, GEOPROSPECT SRL, PHARE Project “Development of the PSAR for the Low Level Waste Repository Baita Bihor” (EuropeAid/117365/D/SV/RO & RO 2002/000 632.08.01) • European Commission - Joint Research Centre, IE, The Netherlands, “PWR/CANDU-6 comparison, design and nuclear safety aspects” • European Commission - Joint Research Centre, IE, The Netherlands, “Ageing data base and ageing management problems” • WILLEMS-Belgium, Krebs-Speichim, France, “Platform for Chimiques Industries” • ANSALDO-IMPIANTY, Italy, BOP design to Cernavoda NPP and Decommissioning documentation • SGN – France, Cable trays, enclosed bus bars and lighting • NorPar a.s. - Norway, Stress Report JRC Information Day and S&T Workshops, Bucharest, 11 May 2006

18. CONCLUSION: • Romania’s integration in the European Union shall ensure new possibilities and challenges for CITON: • direct involvement in the engineering and design of European NPP and nuclear facilities; • to extend the direct collaboration at different R&D programs for new reactors technologies (Generation IV) and increase the nuclear safety (including environmental protection) • to participate in issuing of legislative documents for the European Commission in the nuclear field; • to participate with its experts at different actions of European Commission in the nuclear field. • These elements emphasize for CITON the necessity toincrease collaboration with JRC, and perhaps, in the future, to become a member of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. JRC Information Day and S&T Workshops, Bucharest, 11 May 2006