JOINT RESEARCH ACTIVITY 2: “HLM COMPONENTS, INSTRUMENTATION DEVELOPMENT AND SYSTEM OPERATION”

Responsable person: Christian Latgé, CEA - christian.latge@cea.fr

In order to be able to use the full potential of existing facilities, which will be adapted to the future needs, and in
order to improve the reliability of the experimental facilities and their major components and finally to define and validate the good up to date operating procedures, this Joint Research Activity has the following main objectives:

· to define and to develop optimised systems and components dedicated for future experiments;
· to characterize the features and the potentialities of existing dedicated instrumentation;
· to develop new instrumentation for optimised experimental facilities;
· to define and to validate experimentally, if necessary, the basic operational procedures;
· to develop a standardized In Service Inspection and Repair methodology well adapted to the design support.

Thus the general activity related to this JRA will be based on a critical analysis of operational feedback from numerous R&D experiences performed through past or on going test programs.
This step will allow the identification of paths for improvement and by associated experimental activity, the components and systems will be improved. Moreover, recommendations on operation procedures could be deduced also and validated on on-going experiments. Through the NA2 and NA3, the benefit of this approach will be spread out in all European laboratories in order to contribute to the excellence of European National Laboratories.

JRA2 INVOLVED INSTITUTIONS :: CEA - ENEA - FZD - IPUL - SCK·CEN