EURATOM Framework Program

Under the 3rd EURATOM Framework Program on the management and disposal of radioactive wastes, Italian researchers of the National Commission for Research and Development of Nuclear and Alternative Energy Sources (ENEA) tested a TRUEX flowsheet, aiming at achieving an alpha decontamination factor (DF) greater... 

The polonium production in an LBE-cooled reactor is so high that in the 80 MW, LBE-cooled ADS developed in the 5th Framework Program of Euratom, the polonium inventory within the primary coolant circuit was evaluated to be 2 kg at equilibrium. This amount of polonium generates a decay heat in the primary system that, 5 days after a reactor shutdown, would equal the decay heat power of the fuel itself (Cinotti et al., 2011). 

Recently, advances in the treatment of graphite waste have been made with international research programs including EURATOM Framework Programme (CARBO-WASTE FP7-211333) [71] and IAEA Coordinated Research Programme [72] in order to establish best practices in the retrieval, treatment, and disposal of irradiated graphite and other carbonaceous waste. 

This research was partly supported by the Slovenian Research Agency (research program P2-0026) and partly by the European Atomic Energy Community s (Euratom) Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2011 under Grant agreement no. 605001. 

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