Innovation Ideas
On this page, you will find all promising project ideas labelled by SNETP that have not yet been turned into funded projects. This section aims to give these ideas visibility and support their further development, including helping to identify potential funding opportunities beyond Euratom programmes where relevant. Below, you can browse through the labelled ideas and consult their factsheets, which explain each idea’s objectives, expected impact, etc.
If you want to learn more about the SNETP label and the different projects, please explore our project portfolio.
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STEP-SMR
The key objective of the STEP-SMR project is to enhance the reliability and predictive capability of severe accident (SA) safety analyses for light water-cooled Small Modular Reactors (LW-SMRs).
CONSTRAINT
Advanced testing and benchmarking to support the implementation of constraint-assessment methods for long-term operation evaluations of degraded reactor pressure vessels
MIRA
The overall objective of MIRA (Modern and Innovative research Reactor Assembly) is to establish the technical, experimental, regulatory and industrial basis for a European manufactured alternative VVR-M2 fuel assembly for the Budapest and Kyiv research reactors.
ESFR-SERENE
Sodium-cooled fast reactors (SFRs) can provide a variety of services to the fuel cycle, but most designs, AMRs in particular, are optimized for a specific use, not for versatile adaptation.
SAFE-SMR
SAFE-SMR will contribute to maintaining the highest level of nuclear safety, assessing the safety implications of Light Water (LW) SMR specific features, supporting safety-by-design and EUropean (EU) regulatory readiness, and strengthening EU technical leadership and independent safety review capabilities.
EAF-NEXUS
EAF-NEXUS is a 2-year project aiming to establish and demonstrate an evidence-based European framework for evaluating environmentally assisted fatigue (EAF) evidence, assessment methods, and future validation needs.
ESPRESSO-G4
The ESPRESSO-G4 (European Simulation Platform for Reactor Evaluation, Safety and Source-term Outputs for Gen4 reactors) project grand objective is to support Small Modular Reactors (SMR) deployment and safety demonstration in Europe in the short to mid-terms.
ESGIRE
The aim of the project is the determination of the stresses generated by the integration of Renewable in the Grid on Nuclear Power Plants, as the CE has a target of 42 % of power provided by the Renewable within 2030.
POEAM
The goal of POEAM is to improve the safety, reliability and long-term operation of Generation II and III light water reactors (LWR), including pressurised water reactors (PWRs) and boiling water reactors (BWRs), by assessing the environmentally-assisted cracking (EAC) resistance of structural components produced by additive manufacturing (AM).
PROTECTUS
PROTECTUS will provide the scientific basis and validated data and tools needed to assess the safety of ageing nuclear concrete structures under severe loads, for long-term operation beyond 60 or even 80 years.
