NETWORKING ACTIVITY 5:
“COLLABORATIONS WITH OTHER PROGRAMMES AND FUTURE R&D”

Responsible person: Mariano Tarantino, ENEA - mariano.tarantino@enea.it

A large effort is in progress worldwide on HLM technology especially in the fields of ADS, GEN IV and Fusion Blanket systems. In addition to the European project EUROTRANS-DEMETRA and the new ELSY proposal, significant R&D actions are on going in USA and in Russia. Indeed several important international Institutions (i.e. OECD, ISTC) are promoting, and/or financing, activities in the field of HLM.
The main objective of this NA are twofold. The first one is to promote a real integration among the EU activities on HLM already going on within Europe in several fields: Transmutation, GEN IV and Fusion.

The second one is to establish regular and coherent links among National, European and International programmes in the field of HLM technological development in order to increase the possible technical cooperation in such a way so as to maximise the profit of the ongoing activities. Efforts will be made to cooperate with similar non-European infrastructures such as PROMETEY, St. Petersburg, IPPE, Obninsk, DELTA loop, the USA and others in Japan and the Republic of Korea, to share the latest information on an equal footing and seeking convergence in technology assessment. Another objective of this NA is to have at the end of the VELLA programme a general survey of the status of HLM technologies development in EU, and in the rest of the world, reporting the major results achieved, the open point and the needs of future research

 

NA5 INVOLVED INSTITUTIONS :: ENEA - CEA - CIEMAT - CNRS - FZK - SCK•CEN