SMR Readiness and the Launch of the NEA SMR Dashboard
2023-03-13 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Paris) | 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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: Koroush Shirvan on Economy of Scale vs Multiples
2024-04-26 15:00 - 17:00
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: Technoeconomic Modelling & Simulation of Integrated Energy Systems
2024-06-21 17:00 - 19:00
Webinar Series: Dr. Elizabeth Worsham on ‘Technoeconomic Modelling & Simulation of Integrated Energy Systems’ on Friday 21st June 2024 at 17:00 CEST.
Dr. Elizabeth Worsham is a Systems Integration Engineer at Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Her work includes modeling and analysis of nuclear heat and power systems and economic analysis of power and product markets. Elizabeth supports the lab’s efforts decarbonize the industrial heat and power sector through integration of advanced reactors and SMRs. Specifically, she leads the group investigating decarbonizing pulp and paper mills with nuclear energy. In addition, Dr. Worsham supports international collaborations through the Department of State’s Foundational Infrastructure for the Responsible use of SMR Technology (FIRST) as a subject matter expert on non-electric applications for nuclear power. Elizabeth received her bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (2017) and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State University (2020).
Register 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.

TANDEM Summer School
2024-06-24 - 2024-06-28 | Politecnico di Milano, Lecco Campus, Como lake, Italy
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24th June – 28th June 2024
Politecnico di Milano, Lecco Campus, Como lake, Italy
The TANDEM Summer School is organised by the TANDEM project. TANDEM is a European research project funded by the European Commission focusing on the study of an integrated vision of the energy system based on the hybridisation of nuclear and renewable sources with thermal and power storage and downstream application as district heating, hydrogen production, etc.
The TANDEM International Summer School is organised at the premises of Politecnico di Milano, in the city of Lecco – along the Como lake – in Italy from 24th June to June 28th, 2024. The Summer School is specifically conceived for MSc and PhD students, PostDocs, young and experienced researchers and engineers that are interested in deepening their knowledge on the potential role that nuclear hybrid energy systems play in the ongoing energy transition. In this context, particular attention will be devoted to explore the various advantages, as well as the safety concerns and the techno-economic challenges, associated with the integration of nuclear power plants with applications beyond conventional electricity generation. Participants will be provided with i) an extensive overview of the advantages and challenges of concepts of nuclear reactors producing commodities beyond power supply, ii) a training in the use of tools and methodologies essential for designing and simulating the operation of nuclear hybrid energy systems, iii) the quantitative skills necessary for assessing the impact of these systems within different contexts, ranging from a local scale to the global decarbonisation of the energy system. Given the specificity of the TANDEM Summer School, students are required to have a general background in nuclear systems and SMR technology.
Programme and registration details are here. Please note that no registration fees are requested to participate to the school.
The TANDEM Summer School organising committee:

Claire Vaglio-Gaudard, CEA – Coordinator of TANDEM project
Marco Ricotti, Politecnico di Milano
Stefano Lorenzi, Politecnico di Milano

This event is supported by the ENEN2+ project (HORIZON-EURATOM-2021-NRT-01-13 101061677) founded by the European Union.

TANDEM Technical Workshop
2024-09-18 - 2024-09-19 | Cadarache (Saint Paul-les-Durance), France
The TANDEM project is organising a free, open technical workshop on 18-19 September 2024 and will be held at the premises of the French Alternatives Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), at Cadarache (Saint Paul-les-Durance), in the South of France.

The technical workshop is specifically conceived for MSc and PhD students, PostDocs, young and experienced researchers and engineers that are interested in deepening their knowledge on the potential role that hybrid energy systems including Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) play in the ongoing energy transition. The workshop will focus on the description of SMR non-electric applications, such as district heating, hydrogen production, sea water desalination and synthetic fuel production, and the SMR coupling with other energy sources and energy storage systems in hybrid energy systems.

Please note that, given the specificity of the technical workshop, applicants are required to have a general background in nuclear systems. The registration deadline for the workshop is 16 June 2024. The number of in-person participants will be limited to 30 people. Registrations will therefore be subject to selection by the organisers. Please note that the event will also be accessible online for those unable to attend physically.
For more information, registration, and a detailed programme of the workshop, click here.
Please be also aware that a second workshop, to complement the one at Cadarache, is planned for early 2025 at the University of Pisa in Italy, in early 2025. The workshop will be dedicated to “Modelling and optimisation tools to assess hybrid energy systems integrating nuclear reactors”.
For the organising committee of the TANDEM technical workshop at CEA Cadarache:

Claire Vaglio-Gaudard, CEA – Coordinator of TANDEM project
Stefano Lorenzi, Politecnico di Milano
Marco Ricotti, CIRTEN
Walter Ambrosini, University of Pisa
Andrea Puciarelli, University of Pisa
Gabriel Pavel, ENEN – Leader of the E&T activities in the TANDEM project
Emma Butty, CEA

2nd TANDEM Technical Workshop
2025-02-20 - 2025-02-21 | “Le Benedettine” Congress Centre of the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
The TANDEM project is organising a second, free, open technical workshop on 20-21 February 2025 and will be held at “Le Benedettine” Congress Centre of the University of Pisa (UNIPI), Pisa (Italy) on ‘Modelling and optimisation tools to assess hybrid energy systems integrating nuclear reactors’.
The technical workshop is specifically conceived for MSc and PhD students, PostDocs, young and experienced researchers and engineers that are interested in deepening their knowledge on the potential role that hybrid energy systems including Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) play in the ongoing energy transition.
The workshop will focus on the description of SMR modelling and optimisation tools to assess hybrid energy systems integrating nuclear reactors, together with the SMR coupling with other energy sources and energy storage systems in hybrid energy systems.
Please note that, given the specificity of the technical workshop, applicants are required to have a general background in nuclear systems. The registration deadline for the workshop is 15 January 2025. The number of in-person participants will be limited to 30 people. Registrations will therefore be subject to selection by the organisers. Please note that the event will also be accessible online for those unable to attend physically.
Register here and find the event agenda here.
For the organising committee of the 2nd TANDEM technical workshop at ”Le Benedettine” Congress Centre of the University of Pisa:

Walter Ambrosini, University of Pisa
Andrea Pucciarelli, University of Pisa
Alessandro De Angelis, University of Pisa
Claire Vaglio-Gaudard, CEA – Coordinator of TANDEM project
Stefano Lorenzi, Politecnico di Milano
Marco Ricotti, CIRTEN
Gabriel Pavel, ENEN – Leader of the E&T activities in the TANDEM project

Take a look at the previous edition of the TANDEM Technical Workshop that took place in September 2024 in Cadarache, France

TANDEM Stakeholder Engagement Workshop
2025-03-26 10:30 - 17:00 | Avenue des Arts 56, 1000 Brussels, Begium
Join us for our Stakeholder Engagement Workshop on 26 March 2025 in Brussels. This workshop aims to share the best practices and lessons learnt from TANDEM and other EU related initiatives as well as develop a set of practical recommendations for improving stakeholder engagement processes to harness even stronger collaboration among networks.
The workshop will:

Facilitate peer-to-peer learning and exchange of best practices among participants on stakeholder engagement strategies.
Identify key challenges and opportunities for effective stakeholder engagement in the context of nuclear research and SMRs.
Develop actionable policy recommendations for enhancing stakeholder engagement processes at different levels (EU, national, regional, local).

Register now!

Timing
Topic
Speaker

10:30
Welcome & Introduction
CEA

10:45
Short overview of the TANDEM EU Project
CEA

11:00
Feedback of the actions stakeholder engagement actions undertaken by TANDEM
VTT

11:30
Rountable 1: Experience sharing
Participants to share their own experience in terms of stakeholder engagement, including challenges faced
All participants

12:30
Lunch break

13:30
Rountable 2: Brainstorming
Which stakeholders should be engaged in the debate and at which level (EU, national, regional, local)
Identification of different ways of building and maintaining trust
Engagement with specific audiences (e.g. women, immigrants)
Identification of useful tools
All participants

14:30
Coffee break

14:45
Rountable 2 continues
All participants

15:45
Policy recommendations (discussion)
All participants

16:15
Concluding remarks and next steps
VTT

TANDEM Final Conference
2025-07-02 | Thon Hotel EU – Rue de la Loi 75, 1000 Bruxelles, Thon Hotel EU - Rue de la Loi 75, Brussels, 1000, Belgium
TANDEM Final Conference will take place on 2 July at Thon Hotel EU – Rue de la Loi 75, 1000 Bruxelles.
The three-year TANDEM project will come to an end in August 2025 (more information about the project). This conference aims to present the main outcomes of the project. During the morning sessions, high-level messages will be shared with the participants:
The role of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) and Advanced Modular Reactors (AMRs) in the EU, an overview of the approach implemented in the project to demonstrate the feasibility of hybrid energy systems (HES) which include nuclear, the required conditions at EU and national levels to foster the deployment of SMRs and AMRs and their integration together with renewables, energy storage systems, heat networks, hydrogen plants, desalination plants, etc., presentation of the policy briefs developed by the project, stakeholder engagement recommendations, and skills & workforce needs.
The afternoon will focus more on the technical results of the project, including:
The modelling tools used to implement and study nuclear hybrid energy systems, the extension of the conventional safety approach to assess nuclear hybridisation and cogeneration, and techno-economics studies covering illustrative cases to show the viability of such nuclear hybrid energy systems.
At the end of the conference, we will discuss the way to turn the integration of SMRs and AMRs in HES into reality, while ensuring the competitiveness of the technologies implemented in HES and speeding up their deployment through digitalisation. It will require the tackling of several R&D and technical aspects, enabling the fostering of cross-sectorial collaborations between nuclear and renewable communities.
Targeted participants:
This conference is open to all satekholders interested in the integration of SMRs withins hybrid energy systems and the production of heat, electricity and hydrogen. The development of such systems will strongly contribute to the energy transition and the EU security of energy supply. It has been designed to share the main outomes of project and to engage in a constructive dialogue with EU & national policy makers and regulators, as well as representatives from the broader energy sector, energy intensive industries, R&D community and NGOs.
Agenda:

About TANDEM
The overall ambition of the Euratom TANDEM (“Small Modular ReacTor for a European sAfe aNd Decarbonized Energy Mix”) project is to promote multi-purpose Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) integrated into hybrid energy systems as reliable, resilient, and affordable clean energy options in Europe. The project focuses primarily on light water SMR technologies for near-term deployment in Europe by 2035, but also aims to support the deployment of Advanced Modular Reactors of Generation IV by 2050 when technology-neutral outcomes are identified.
The intrinsic key feature of the TANDEM project is the development of an integrated vision of the low-carbon energy mix on a local/regional scale (a urban area or an industrial area). Indeed, the project considers nuclear energy as an electricity and heat source to supply industrial processes and district heating – as in other Euratom projects working on nuclear co-/poly-generation – but also studies coupling (also referred to as “hybridization”) with renewables and energy carrier storage systems. The project is addressing the technical feasibility (safety, operability and flexibility of the energy supply) and economic viability of such hybrid energy systems, as well as citizen engagement regarding their deployment.
The project provides methodologies and tools for the technical assessment of Hybrid Energy Systems (HES) and implements them on demonstrative case studies of energy systems to be decarbonized. By mid-2025, as expected, the project will release policy briefs and technical guidelines supporting the safe and cost-effective deployment of SMRs/ AMRs in urban or industrial areas consistent with the future European low-carbon energy mix in Europe.
In parallel, TANDEM has built an open and long-term community that will ensure expertise in the field of nuclear HES and support the wide acceptance of multipurpose SMRs and AMRs. This European community has forged close links with other international communities and industrial stakeholders, to develop new collaborations and foster exchanges in the field of nuclear cogeneration, non-electric applications of nuclear energy and nuclear HES.
The discussions between TANDEM and these international communities clearly underline that nuclear cogeneration and its integration into hybrid energy systems is an issue of utmost importance. TANDEM paves the way for the credibility of hybrid energy system integrating SMRs and AMRs on a local scale.
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