SARGEN_IV: Safety Assessment for Reactors of GENeration IV

SARGEN_IV: Safety Assessment for Reactors of GENeration IV - Scope: Proposal of an European Framework for the safety assessment of the GEN_IV reactors planned to be built. Objectives: • to identify the critical safety features of the selected Generation IV concepts, relying on the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) (systems of reference); • to propose a tentative methodology framework for the safety assessment to be applied to the four ESNII prototypes, to perform a small sample of test applications employing the above methodology framework to some event families; • to identify open issues, relevant for research in the safety area, mainly focusing on the safety assessment related aspects and to propose actions and plans for the implementation and the deployment of this R&D; • To disseminate information on the harmonized position issued during the project to important stakeholders, in particular decision-makers (utilities and safety authorities for instance)