Exploring the safety and performance of molten salt reactors for their deployment in the European Union: the MIMOSA and ENDURANCE projects
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F26722445%3A_____%2F25%3AN0000051" target="_blank" >RIV/26722445:_____/25:N0000051 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjn/2025026" target="_blank" >10.1051/epjn/2025026</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Exploring the safety and performance of molten salt reactors for their deployment in the European Union: the MIMOSA and ENDURANCE projects
Original language description
Molten Salt Reactors (MSR) are Generation IV nuclear systems in which the fuel is dissolved in a molten salt circulating through the primary system. There is growing interest in this advanced technology in Europe, but also in the US, China, South Korea, Japan and Russia, due to their inherently high safety level, flexibility, reliability, load-following capabilities, and potential for multi-recycling of materials contained in light-water reactors' spent nuclear fuels. These advantages could position MSRs as ideal complements to other decarbonized energy sources in a future sustainable energy mix. In this respect, it is probably one of the most promising advanced technologies and, at the same time, the least mature and studied one. Two ongoing EURATOM-funded projects, MIMOSA and ENDURANCE projects are exploring molten salt reactors' safety and performance features, as well as fuel cycle aspects, in order to assess and demonstrate their potential for future deployment in Europe. The MIMOSA and ENDURANCE projects have the common objective of improving the maturity of MSR technology. The MIMOSA project develops and analyses multi-recycling strategies for the European Union based on the use of MSR and demonstrates several key aspects of their technical feasibility and performance by both calculations and experimental investigations. The ENDURANCE project supports the safe operation and the development of Critical Technology Elements by connecting design developers and industry with universities and research centres while ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements. Whereas ENDURANCE is in its starting phase, MIMOSA has already delivered important results.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
20305 - Nuclear related engineering; (nuclear physics to be 1.3);
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
EPJ Nuclear Sciences & Technologies
ISSN
2491-9292
e-ISSN
2491-9292
Volume of the periodical
11
Issue of the periodical within the volume
June
Country of publishing house
FR - FRANCE
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
1-20
UT code for WoS article
001520480100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105010851540