International Projects
Key Challenges in GFR Research and Development
SafeG Project
Since October 2020, 15 organizations from 7 European countries and Japan have been working together on a 4-years R&D project supported by the European Commission. Detailed description of the project structure, main goals, and roles of individual partners would be enough for a whole dedicated paper, therefore, in this section, only the main areas of R&D are listed, and their connection to key challenges in GFR research and development are discussed.
Project Structure
SafeG Workpackages
The SafeG project contains four technical work packages (WPs), a work package dedicated to training and education activities, and two work packages for communication and project management. The four R&D work packages are following:
- WP1: Core safety, proliferation resistance
- WP2: Innovative materials and technologies for enhancing safety of GFRs
- WP3: Innovative solutions for decay heat removal
- WP4: Integration of the results, standardization, codes
Total effort to be spent for solving of technical problems within these four WPs is 576 person-months, or 48 person-years. TABLE 6 summarizes individual tasks of the WPs and their connection with the key challenges in GFR R&D.
Other International Projects
R&D in the GIF Framework
Additionally, in the framework of GIF, a project dedicated to conceptual design and safety of ALLEGRO has been ongoing, as well as a project on GFR fuel safety. Within the conceptual design and safety project, activities complementing the work done within the Czech national projects, and the SafeG project, have been ongoing, within Euratom and France collaboration. The GFR fuel safety project focuses mainly onto development of SiC-based cladding materials for GFRs. Euratom, France, and Japan have been collaborating on this task.
Under the UJV-CVR-JRC multilateral agreement, one project dedicated to GFR is ongoing, led by UJV Rez. It complements the Czech national project “NOVA”, using the unique equipment and knowhow of JRC Karlsruhe in the field of precise measurements of thermo-physical properties of materials.