This edition of the Short Course on Severe Accident Phenomenology (SAP2025) will take place from Monday 23 to Friday 27 June 2025 at FZJ Jülich (Germany) and followed by the first edition of the Severe Accident Summer Camp (SASCAMP2025) in June 30 – July 4, 2025. Both events are organized in the framework ofthe SEAKNOT Euratom project on “Severe accident research and knowledge management for LWRs”.

The Severe Accident Phenomelogy (SAP) short course is based on the knowledge gained on Severe Accident in the last three decades. The main purpose is to transfer it to M.Sc.‐Ph.D. students, engineers and researchers recently involved in the study of severe accidents.
This SAP 2025 edition follows the 2023 SAP Course held in Madrid, which was the first public event under the EURATOM SEAKNOT project. It also continues the tradition of the previous NUGENIA TA2 editions held in Bologna (2021, online), Cadarache (2019), and Ljubljana (2017). In this edition, updated and extended contents will be presented again face‐to‐face. The program will cover severe accident phenomenology, progression and mitigation in current and future advance water reactors (Generation 2, 3, 3+, SMRs). Severe accident codes and their uncertainties will be also addressed. A special focus will be done on the Fukishima-Daiichi severely damaged reactors and their decommissioning.

As in the specific objectives of the SEAKNOT project, reputed scientists and engineers will be lecturing beyond what’s written in books, papers and reports, so that not just their knowledge but also their expertise, is passed to young generation of students, engineers and researchers in the severe accident field. What’s even as important, enough time will be planned for questions-and-answers and networking during the course.

The course and summer camp will be open to University students with special fees (few scholarships will be made available upon request)

Latest updates

• ENEN is kindly supporting 10 participants with a lumped sum of 900€ each. You can apply here via ‘Individuals applying for group applications’ and select ‘Severe Accident Phenomenology short course’. This application is complementary to a (existing) registration and subject to the funding rules of ENEN.
• Registration is now open, please register until January 31^st 2025 for early bird discount
  (in total 52 seats remaining for SAP and 12 seats for SASCAMP. Registrations are handled on a first come, first serve basis)