TANDEM

Webinar Series: Koroush Shirvan on Economy of Scale vs Multiples
2024-04-26 15:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Paris)
Webinar Series: Koroush Shirvan on Economy of Scale vs Multiples: Bottom-up Cost Estimation of Nuclear Reactors on Friday 26 April 2024 at 15:00 CEST.
Pr. Koroush Shirvan is a professor of nuclear science and engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the current Co-Director of Reactor Technology Course for Utility Executives by National Academy for Nuclear Training, Director of Accident Tolerant Fuel Integrated Research Project (IRP) and PI of MIT ARC-20 project as part of the Advanced Demonstration Reactor Program. His research focuses on innovations in reactor design and fuel engineering.
In 2021, Prof. Shirvan released the first open-source tool for cost estimation of existing and advanced nuclear architectures. The tool and its insights are currently utilized by policy makers and energy community worldwide. He is an active consultant to the nuclear industry on matters of digital engineering, cost, safety, use of AI/ML, and fuel technology.
Pr. Shirvan received his PhD from MIT in 2012. He has been the lead supervisor of over 50 graduate thesis and current is supervising 17 graduate students. His work on fuels has led into multiple awards including the Reactor Technology Award from American Nuclear Society in 2022.
Find more information and registration, here.
This webinar series is held in the framework of the TANDEM project in cooperation with the ENEN++ project and is organised by the University of Pisa, CIRTEN.

Webinar Series: Dominique Bestion on System Codes for Reactor Design & Safety Analysis
2024-04-19 15:00 - 17:00
Webinar series: Dominique Bestion on ‘What must be known when using system codes for reactor design & safety analysis’ on Friday 19 April 2024 at 15:00 CEST.
Dr Dominique Bestion has been working at Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique for 37 years (1983-2020), in a thermal-hydraulic department at CEA-Grenoble, in France. He has been working in modelling two-phase flow for the CATHARE system code for accidental transient simulations and has been project manager of the CATHARE code development. He analysed many experiments and developed several models. He became Research Director and International Expert in reactor thermalhydraulics. He contributed to many European projects and had a coordination role for the EUROFASTNET, NURESIM, NURISP, and NURESAFE projects for a European multiscale thermalhydraulic simulation platform. He had teaching activities in several Universities and international courses and published chapters of books. He contributed to OECD-NEA-CSNI-WGAMA activities, coordinated Task Groups on application of CFD to Nuclear reactor safety and co-founded the biennial CFD4NRS workshops. He contributed to OECD-CSNI State of the Art documents on Scaling, and on 3D system code modelling. He has been Editor at the Nuclear Engineering and Design Journal (2008 to 2021). He has been nominated ’’NURETH Fellow’’ in 2017. He is now consultant, scientific advisor and he chairs the FONESYS international network of system code developers to further improving the quality of reactor thermalhydraulic simulation. His domain of expertise includes two-phase thermalhydraulics, model development, code development and validation, application methodologies of codes for reactor transient analyses and nuclear safety.
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This webinar series is held in the framework of the TANDEM project in cooperation with the ENEN++ project and is organised by the University of Pisa, CIRTEN.

Advanced nuclear: from research to reality
2023-12-13 | Brussels
Advanced nuclear: from research to reality will be held on 13 December 2023 – Brussels – Belgium.

Join nucleareurope on 13 December for a workshop dedicated to advanced nuclear technologies.
This workshop will be held at the Press Club Brussels Europe (Rue Froissart 95, 1040 Brussels) from 15.30 – 18.35 and will be followed by the traditional walking dinner.

More information and registration, here.

World Nuclear Exhibition 2023
2023-11-28 - 2023-11-30 | Paris
WNE will be held on 28-30 November in Paris.
Experience the power of innovation at WNE, where industry leaders come together to shape the future of civil nuclear power.
More information and registration, here.

ENLIT Europe 2023
2023-11-28 - 2023-11-30 | Paris
ENLIT Europe is being held in Paris on 28-30 November 2023.
Enlit Europe will welcome 12,000 energy professionals in Paris, to visit 700 exhibitors, hear from 500 speakers on the latest industry developments, get to know start-ups, scale-ups and entrepreneurs working on solutions helping to accelerate the energy transition, meet with future energy leaders, and connect with EU-funded projects that are the first line of defence against climate change.
More information and for registration, click here.

NuclearEurope2023: a strategic industry serving Europe
2023-06-20 - 2023-06-21
NuclearEurope2023: a strategic industry serving Europe will be held on 20 – 21 June 2023 in Lyon, France.
Join NuclearEurope for this year’s #NuclearEurope2023 conference!
The event will kick-off with a dinner on the evening of 20 June, followed by a full day conference on 21 June.
The NuclearEurope2023 conference will focus on nuclear both as a strategic European industry and as an enabler for the larger low-carbon European industrial base. Topics to be covered include:

Europe’s competitiveness
Energy sovereignty
A strong European supply chain
Role of nuclear in achieving the climate targets
Extending the life of the existing nuclear fleet
Nuclear new build
Workforce and skills

For more information and to register, click here.

SMR Readiness and the Launch of the NEA SMR Dashboard
2023-03-13 15:00 - 16:30 | Online
OECD-NEA are launching the SMR Readiness and the Launch of the NEA SMR Dashboard will be launched on Monday, 13 March, 2023 at 15:00-16:30 CET.
The NEA SMR Dashboard (First Edition) presents analysis of the progress of SMRs around the world. Looking beyond technical feasibility and “Technology Readiness Level” (TRL), the NEA SMR Dashboard assesses progress in six additional dimensions: licensing, siting, financing, supply chain readiness, public engagement, and fuel availability. It introduces new metrics by the NEA to assess meaningful progress towards deployment and commercialisation based on objective criteria and verifiable sources of information – and it shows real progress of SMR projects in markets around the world.
This event will launch the first edition of the NEA SMR Dashboard, which includes assessments for 21 SMR designs. Future editions will continue to track progress and include additional SMRs.
Please find more information, event launch programme, and registration here.

Joint ELSMOR-TANDEM Workshop
2022-12-06 - 2022-12-07 | Brussels, Doubletree by Hilton Hote, Doubletree by Hilton Hotel, Rue Gineste 3, Brussels, 1210, Belgium
Joint ELSMOR-TANDEM workshop to be held in Brussels on the 6th and 7th of December 2022
The two Horizon 2020 projects will be joining forces to organise a joint workshop to bring forward the research done in ELSMOR and to pass the torch forward to TANDEM while also giving an overview of the status of Small Modular Reactor (SMR) development in Europe. SMRs are going to be a part of the European energy system and will bring considerable opportunities to it in both power and heat production. But to realise these opportunities fully, Europe will also have to prepare and ensure we’re ready to utilise these
developments.
The event will be held over 2 days at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Brussels on the 6th and 7th of December. The first day will focus on the high level messages of SMRs. What are different parties doing to drive forward nuclear policy, what are the views of nuclear utilities and why should non-nuclear utilities or industrial users be interested in SMRs? Come join us in discussing how SMRs can support EU’s turn towards decarbonisation and what is needed for that to happen.
The second day (7.12) will go deeper into the results of the ELSMOR project and how to utilize the learnings from it for TANDEM over 5 different workshops. The ELSMOR project has for the past 3 years focused on analysing and evaluating the various safety aspects of SMR designs to ensure that the European nuclear community would have both the tools and the knowhow
for licensing these plants. TANDEM will move further from this and will study the role SMRs will have in our energy systems analysing their role and economics when it comes to the production of electricity, heat and hydrogen while also ensuring there will be no safety related hurdles in any of these use cases.
Register here!
What: ELSMOR-TANDEM joint workshop

Where: Brussels, Doubletree by Hilton Hotel
When 6-7.12.2022
Event agenda:

Speakers for the day 1 seminar (6.12)
Yves Desbazeille – Director General of nucleareurope

European SMR pre-partnerships view on the future of nuclear deployment

Matti Kattainen – Head of Nuclear Future Agenda at Fortum

Nuclear utility perspective on SMR feasibility

Ville Tulkki – Lead, SMR technology at VTT and the project lead of ELSMOR

Achievements of ELSMOR

Claire Vaglio-Gaudard – Senior Expert at CEA and Project lead of TANDEM

Moving forward from ELSMOR towards energy system analysis of SMRs in TANDEM

Debbie Francis, Nuward Design Export and International Safety Officer, EDF

Perspective of a vendor developing an SMR design

Martina Adorni, Nuclear Safety Specialist, OECD-NEA

OECD-NEAs work and perspective on SMRs

Sylvie Cadet-Mercier, Commissioner, ASN

Regulators perspective on European SMR deployment

More to be announced!

Workshops for Day 2 (7.12)
Further workshop details are being prepared, feedback on areas of interest of participants are also welcome and can be taken into account.

Defence in Depth of LW-SMRs

Presentations and discussion on the application of defence-in-depth principles for LW-SMRs with a focus on how issues arising from SMR concepts such as modularity of the plant and severe accident management can be treated inside the framework.

SMR Dataset

The ELSMOR project built a virtual dataset of a PWR SMR to function as the basis of the safety analysis simulations performed in the project. This dataset will also be available to other researchers outside the project and the workshop will go through the dataset, showcase it’s usability and allow for discussion on further usage and development.

Experimental facilities on passive safety systems

Presentations and discussion on the plate heat exchanger test rig built at SIET for analysing the passive safety systems of SMRs.

Modelling of passive safety systems

Presentations and discussion on the modelling work performed on the passive safety systems of a LW-SMR, the challenges found while performing the work, the implications of the results and the basis these create for further safety analysis work.

Workshop on TANDEM

TBA

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