TY - JOUR
T1 - The H2020 McSAFER Project
T2 - Main Goals, Technical Work Program, and Status
AU - Sanchez-Espinoza, Victor Hugo
AU - Gabriel, Stephan
AU - Suikkanen, Heikki
AU - Telkkä, Joonas
AU - Valtavirta, Ville
AU - Bencik, Marek
AU - Kliem, Sören
AU - Queral, Cesar
AU - Farda, Anthime
AU - Abéguilé, Florian
AU - Smith, Paul
AU - Van Uffelen, Paul
AU - Ammirabile, Luca
AU - Seidl, Marcus
AU - Schneidesch, Christophe
AU - Grishchenko, Dmitry
AU - Lestani, Hector
N1 - Funding Information:
This project has received funding from the European Union?s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 945063.
Funding Information:
The McSAFER project is a research and innovation project with ca. EUR 4 million funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 research program. The project started in September 2020 and it will last for three years. The consortium consists of 13 partners from nine countries. It brings together different EU institutions, including research centers (VTT, HZDR, KIT, UJV, JRC KA, CNEA, CEA), industry (JACOBS, PEL, TRACTEBEL), and universities (LUT, KTH, KIT, UPM) engaged in the development of SMRs. They are also involved in the development of methods for the optimization of the design and enhanced safety and evaluations of SMR-specific issues, such as the design of small cores with or without boron, an integrated RPV-concept, innovative heat exchangers, passive heat removal systems, etc. Two partners (CNEA and CEA) are studying their own designs (CAREM and boron-free F-SMR). Industrial partners (TRACTEBEL, PEL, and JACOBS) have great experience in the safety analysis of LWRs and partly of SMRs.
PY - 2021/10/1
Y1 - 2021/10/1
N2 - This paper describes the main objectives, technical content, and status of the H2020 project entitled “High-performance advanced methods and experimental investigations for the safety evaluation of generic Small Modular Reactors (McSAFER)”. The main pillars of this project are the combination of safety-relevant thermal hydraulic experiments and numerical simulations of different approaches for safety evaluations of light water-cooled Small Modular Reactors (SMR). It describes the goals, the consortium, and the involved thermal hydraulic test facilities, e.g., the COSMOS-H (KIT), HWAT (KTH), and MOTEL (LUT), including the experimental programs. It also outlines the different safety assessment methodologies applied to four different SMR-designs, namely the CAREM (CNEA), SMART (KAERI), F-SMR (CEA), and NuScale. These methodologies are multiscale thermal hydraulics, conventional, low order, and high fidelity neutron physical methods used to demonstrate the inherent safety features of SMR-core designs under postulated design-basis-accident conditions. Finally, the status of the investigations is shortly discussed followed by the dissemination activities and an outlook.
AB - This paper describes the main objectives, technical content, and status of the H2020 project entitled “High-performance advanced methods and experimental investigations for the safety evaluation of generic Small Modular Reactors (McSAFER)”. The main pillars of this project are the combination of safety-relevant thermal hydraulic experiments and numerical simulations of different approaches for safety evaluations of light water-cooled Small Modular Reactors (SMR). It describes the goals, the consortium, and the involved thermal hydraulic test facilities, e.g., the COSMOS-H (KIT), HWAT (KTH), and MOTEL (LUT), including the experimental programs. It also outlines the different safety assessment methodologies applied to four different SMR-designs, namely the CAREM (CNEA), SMART (KAERI), F-SMR (CEA), and NuScale. These methodologies are multiscale thermal hydraulics, conventional, low order, and high fidelity neutron physical methods used to demonstrate the inherent safety features of SMR-core designs under postulated design-basis-accident conditions. Finally, the status of the investigations is shortly discussed followed by the dissemination activities and an outlook.
KW - Experiments
KW - High fidelity
KW - Multiphysics
KW - Multiscale
KW - Safety evaluations
KW - SMR
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U2 - 10.3390/en14196348
DO - 10.3390/en14196348
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85116431749
SN - 1996-1073
VL - 14
JO - Energies
JF - Energies
IS - 19
M1 - 6348
ER -