SARNET: Severe Accident Research Network of Excellence
Fifty-one organisations network in SARNET (Severe Accident Research NETwork of Excellence) their
research capacities in order to resolve the most important pending issues for enhancing, with regard to
Severe Accidents (SA), the safety of existing and future Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs). This project, cofunded
by the European Commission (EC) under the 6th Framework Programme, has been defined in
order to optimise the use of the available means and to constitute sustainable research groups in the
European Union. SARNET tackles the fragmentation that may exist between the different national R&D
programmes, in defining common research programmes and developing common computer tools and
methodologies for safety assessment. SARNET comprises most of the organisations involved in SA
research in Europe, plus Canada.
To reach these objectives, all the organisations networked in SARNET contributed to a Joint Programme
of Activities, which consisted of:
Implementation of an advanced communication tool for accessing all project information,
fostering exchange of information, and managing documents;
Harmonization and re-orientation of the research programmes, and definition of new ones;
Analysis of the experimental results provided by research programmes in order to elaborate
a common understanding of relevant phenomena;
Development of the ASTEC code (integral computer code used to predict the NPP behaviour
during a postulated SA), which capitalizes in terms of physical models the knowledge
produced within SARNET;
Development of Scientific Databases in which all the results of research programmes are
stored in a common format (DATANET);
Development of a common methodology for Probabilistic Safety Assessment of NPPs;
Development of short courses and writing a textbook on Severe Accidents for students and
researchers;
Promotion of personnel mobility amongst various European organisations.
ALBIOL Thierry;
VAN DORSSELAERE Jean Pierre;
CHAUMONT Bernard;
HASTE Tim;
JOURNEAU Christophe;
MEYER Leonard;
SEHGAL Bal Raj;
SCHWINGES Bernd;
BERAHA David;
ANNUNZIATO Alessandro;
ZEYEN Roland;
2010-12-01
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
JRC57329
0149-1970,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC57329,
10.1016/j.pnucene.2009.07.011,
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