At its 61st meeting in June 2017, the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) decided to establish a Senior Expert Group on Safety Research (SESAR) to update previous assessments of capabilities and facilities required to support the safety of nuclear installations. The NEA issued a report on this activity in 2001 entitled Nuclear Safety Research in OECD Countries: Major Facilities and Programmes at Risk. Six years later, a followon activity resulted in the publication SESAR/SFEAR: Nuclear Safety Research in OECD Countries – Support Facilities for Existing and Advanced Reactors (2007). The SESAR/SFEAR2’s mandate is as follows: “The Senior Expert Group on Safety Research/ Support Facilities for Existing and Advanced Reactors 2 (SESAR/SFEAR2) is responsible for reviewing and updating the previous SESAR assessments of research facilities required to support the safety of nuclear installations. The group shall recommend actions to be taken by the CSNI and its member countries to facilitate broader use and sustained operation of essential research facilities required to support nuclear safety.” The activity described in this report builds upon and updates the previous work, expanding its scope to cover advanced reactors, including evaluations performed by the Task Group on Advanced Reactor Experimental Facilities (TAREF) and the emergence of several proposed molten salt and small modular reactor designs. In addition, although the need to maintain experimental databases was recognised as an important issue, it was not treated specifically in previous reports; the present report therefore makes some direct recommendations regarding database maintenance.
Nuclear Safety Research Support Facilities for Existing and Advanced Reactors: 2021 Update
D’Auria Francesco
;White A.
2021-01-01
Abstract
At its 61st meeting in June 2017, the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) decided to establish a Senior Expert Group on Safety Research (SESAR) to update previous assessments of capabilities and facilities required to support the safety of nuclear installations. The NEA issued a report on this activity in 2001 entitled Nuclear Safety Research in OECD Countries: Major Facilities and Programmes at Risk. Six years later, a followon activity resulted in the publication SESAR/SFEAR: Nuclear Safety Research in OECD Countries – Support Facilities for Existing and Advanced Reactors (2007). The SESAR/SFEAR2’s mandate is as follows: “The Senior Expert Group on Safety Research/ Support Facilities for Existing and Advanced Reactors 2 (SESAR/SFEAR2) is responsible for reviewing and updating the previous SESAR assessments of research facilities required to support the safety of nuclear installations. The group shall recommend actions to be taken by the CSNI and its member countries to facilitate broader use and sustained operation of essential research facilities required to support nuclear safety.” The activity described in this report builds upon and updates the previous work, expanding its scope to cover advanced reactors, including evaluations performed by the Task Group on Advanced Reactor Experimental Facilities (TAREF) and the emergence of several proposed molten salt and small modular reactor designs. In addition, although the need to maintain experimental databases was recognised as an important issue, it was not treated specifically in previous reports; the present report therefore makes some direct recommendations regarding database maintenance.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
