The TANDEM Euratom project: Context, objectives and workplan

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F46356088%3A_____%2F24%3AN0000011" target="_blank" >RIV/46356088:_____/24:N0000011 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1738573323005673" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1738573323005673</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.net.2023.12.015" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.net.2023.12.015</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The TANDEM Euratom project: Context, objectives and workplan

Original language description

The TANDEM project is a European initiative funded under the EURATOM program. The project started on September 2022 and has a duration of 36 months. TANDEM stands for Small Modular ReacTor for a European sAfe aNd Decarbonized Energy Mix. Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) can be hybridized with other energy sources, storage systems and energy conversion applications to provide electricity, heat and hydrogen. Hybrid energy systems have the potential to strongly contribute to the energy decarbonization targeting carbon-neutrality in Europe by 2050. However, the integration of nuclear reactors, particularly SMRs, in hybrid energy systems, is a new R&D topic to be investigated. In this context, the TANDEM project aims to develop assessments and tools to facilitate the safe and efficient integration of SMRs into low-carbon hybrid energy systems. An open-source "TANDEM" model library of hybrid system components will be developed in Modelica language which, by coupling, will extend the capabilities of existing tools implemented in the project. The project proposes to specifically address the safety issues of SMRs related to their integration into hybrid energy systems, involving specific interactions between SMRs and the rest of the hybrid systems; new initiating events may have to be considered in the safety approach. TANDEM will study two hybrid systems covering the main trends of the European energy policy and market evolution at 2035's horizon: a district heating network and power supply in a large urban area, and an energy hub serving energy conversion systems, including hydrogen production; the energy hub is inspired from a harbor-like infrastructure. TANDEM will provide assessments on SMR safety, hybrid system operationality and techno-economics. Societal considerations will also be encased by analyzing European citizen engagement in SMR technology safety. The work will result in technical, economic and societal recommendations and policy briefs on the safety of SMRs and their integration into hybrid energy systems for industry, R&D teams, Technical Safety Organizations, regulators, Non -Governmental Organizations and policy makers. The TANDEM consortium will involve 17 partners from 8 European countries (Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Ukraine). The TANDEM project has the ambition to become a pioneer initiative in Europe in gathering efforts and expertise around development of SMRs integration into hybrid energy systems. The dissemination and the exploitation of the project outcomes as well as the proposed Education & Training activities shall serve as a basis for a number of new R&D and innovation projects addressing the safety issues of SMRs and their integration into hybrid energy systems.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - 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);

Project

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Continuities

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Nuclear Engineering and Technology

ISSN

1738-5733

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

56

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

KR - KOREA, REPUBLIC OF

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

993-1001

UT code for WoS article

001203274800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85181237418