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ELSMOR – towards European Licensing of Small Modular Reactors: Methodology recommendations for light-water small modular reactors safety assessment

Sylvain Lansou
Luca Ammirabile
Nikolai Bakouta
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Jeremy Bittan
Jean-Yves Brandelet
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Etienne Courtin
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Frans Davelaar
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Sophie Ehster-Vignoud
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Houda Hamama
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Andriy Iskra
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Sebastien Israel
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Stefano Lorenzi
Valerie Paulus
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Joachim Miss
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Thuy Nguyen
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Oleksandr Sevbo
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Olli Suurnäkki
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Decarbonization of energy production is key in today’s societies and nuclear energy holds an essential place in this prospect. Besides heavy-duty electricity production, other industrial and communal needs could be served by integrating novel nuclear energy production systems, among which are low-power nuclear devices, like small modular reactors (SMRs). The ELSMOR (towards European Licensing of Small Modular Reactors) European project addresses this topic as an answer to the Horizon 2020 Euratom NFRP-2018-3 call. The consortium includes 15 partners from eight European countries, involving research institutes, major European nuclear companies and technical support organizations. The 3.5-year project, launched in September 2019, investigates selected safety features of light-water (LW) SMRs with focus on licensing aspects. Providing a comprehensive compliance framework that regulators can adopt and operate, the licensing process of such SMRs could be optimized, helping their deployment. In this prospect, as a result of ELSMOR’s work, this article gives an overview of the specific issues that LW-SMRs may bring about in the different domains of nuclear safety, in terms of: • Methodological standpoints: safety goals, safety requirements, safety principles (defence-in-depth implementation); • Main safety functions of reactivity control, decay heat removal and confinement management; • Severe accident management; • Other safety issues particular to SMRs: use of shared systems; performing of multi-unit probabilistic safety assessment (PSA); spent fuel management, transport and disposal management. In this article, adequate methodologies are developed to deal with these issues and to help assess the safety of LW-SMRs. This work gives a precious synthesis of the safety assessment issues of LW-SMRs and of the associated methodologies developed in the context of the ELSMOR European project.
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irsn-04890647 , version 1 (23-01-2025)

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Sylvain Lansou, Luca Ammirabile, Nikolai Bakouta, Jeremy Bittan, Sebastian Buchholz, et al.. ELSMOR – towards European Licensing of Small Modular Reactors: Methodology recommendations for light-water small modular reactors safety assessment. Open Research Europe, 2024, 3, pp.158. ⟨10.12688/openreseurope.16360.2⟩. ⟨irsn-04890647⟩
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