NUGENIA

Involved JRC Institutes: IET, ITU

Legal Basis: EURATOM Framework Programme

NUGENIA’s scope of activities are covered by the following 8 Technical Areas:

1. Plant safety and risk assessment
2. Severe accidents
3. Improved reactor operation
4. Integrity assessment & ageing of systems, structures & components
5. Fuel development, waste and spent fuel management and decommissioning
6. Innovative LWR design & technology
7. Harmonisation
8. European Network for Inspection & Qualification (ENIQ)

The creation of NUGENIA is the positive result of the integration process of groups active in the field of Generation II & III:

• The first of the three SNETP pillars: Technology Working Group Gen II & III
• The NULIFE Network of Excellence on nuclear plant life management
• The SARNET Network of Excellence on severe accidents
• The European Network for Inspection & Qualification (ENIQ)

NUGENIA is regrouping most of the Utilities, NPP designers, Technical Safety Organisations (TSOs) and Research Organisations in Europe working in the field of Generation II & III Nuclear Power Plants.

Legal documents: NUGENIA statues, internal rules & procedures

Start date: November 2011

Members: 92 (status: June 2014)

Secretariat: NUGENIA Secretariat (7 persons including one from JRC-IET)

JRC role: Support to the NUGENIA Secretariat, observer in the Executive Committee, one JRC representative with active contribution in each Technical Areas with the exception of TA3

Contacts at JRC:

• Executive Committee: Michel Bieth (IET, F5)
• NUGENIA Secretariat: Oliver Martin (IET, F4)
• TA1: Plant safety and risk assessment: K. Simola (IET, F5)
• TA2: Severe accidents: G. Pascal (IET, F5)
• TA4: Integrity assessment & ageing of systems, structures & components: K. Nilsson (IET, F4)
• TA5: Fuel development, waste and spent fuel management and decommissioning: J. Somers (ITU, E4)
• TA6: Innovative LWR design & technology: G. Pascal (IET, F5)
• TA7: Harmonisation: L. Ammirabile (IET, F5)
• TA8: European Network for Inspection & Qualification (ENIQ): O. Martin

Deliverables: technical reports & results of scientific projects, roadmaps, position papers on dedicated topics, framework documents, recommended practices, best practice documents, conference papers, articles in peer-reviewed journals.