Current Challenges of the European Nuclear Supply Chain
In 2018 the European Commission (its General Directorates Joint Research Centre and Energy) as part of their activities on long-term operation (LTO) launched a project called “Modernisation and Optimisation of the European Nuclear Supply Chain” to help facilitate solutions for the supply chain challenges currently facing European utilities / licensees of nuclear facilities, in particular nuclear power plants (NPPs) for power generation, such as obsolescence of structures, systems and components (SSCs) and the difficulty in finding new suppliers for safety-related SSCs in nuclear facilities. This report is the first project deliverable and has the purpose to assess to what extent utilities / licensees of European countries with operating nuclear facilities are concerned about supply chain challenges and to what extent solutions to address these challenges in the sense of increased use of non-nuclear industry standard components and equipment for safety-related SSCs or use of SSCs designed and manufactured according to alternative nuclear codes and standards (other than the ones normally used in the country in scope) are already possible. The content of this report is based on answers to a questionnaire sent by the European
Commission – Joint Research Centre to utilities / licensees or national nuclear industry associations of European countries with operating nuclear power plants. Answers from the following European countries were received and are thus covered by this report: Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the Ukraine (answers for the United States of America were provided as well for comparison).
MARTIN Oliver;
ABBT Matheus;
2020-08-06
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC121103
978-92-76-20872-3 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 30309 EN,
OP KJ-NA-30309-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC121103,
10.2760/23903 (online),
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