Nuclear Energy for New Europe 2009

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No: 1106

Conference: Nuclear Energy for New Europe 2009

Title: GEN4FIN – A R&D Platform for Educating Finnish Nuclear Engineers

Theme: Education for Sustainable Nuclear Power

Author(s): Rainer Salomaa, Riita Kyrki-Rajamäki, Timo Vanttola

Contact : Rainer Salomaa

E-mail: Rainer.Salomaa@hut.fi

Address: Helsinki University of Technology
FI-02015 TKK FI-02015 TKK

Country: Finland

Recruiting nuclear energy professionals is a challenge to replace senior staff close to retirement and to solve the additional demand of personnel for recent modernization and new NPP projects. The Finnish public nuclear safety program Safir2010 aims to keep an adequate and wide enough basic expertise for the needs of the near-term NPP projects. Safir2010 addresses education and training issues, but consists of medium term tasks, practical applications and its researchers are usually experts. To provide a longer perspective and an emphasis on basic science and researcher training a national research programme GEN4FIN was established. Its theme is advanced nuclear fission energy concepts. Its objectives include also learning and validating of new methods and calculation tools applied to GEN4, providing new views by GEN4 projects into safety of present NPP concepts, and utilization of cross-cutting issues with, for instance, conceptual fusion power plant studies.

A brief overview of the GEN4FIN research objectives and topics is given. The main subject areas include i.a. materials and reactor dynamics of supercritical water reactors. The GEN4FIN partners have experience on high power light water reactor technology (HPLWR). Research topics on high temperature reactor concepts have started. The Finnish simulation environment platform APROS is being extended to several GEN4 concepts, thorium cycle is reassessed and several projects on high temperature materials and fast reactor concepts are under way. The domestic resources and know-how in GEN4 studies are limited and, therefore, networking to international research programs must be exploited. GEN4FIN teams already participate in several EC projects. Our domestic nuclear research platform is linked to GEN4 studies and similarly to the SNE-TP in Europe. A detail worth mentioning is the ENEN-III co-ordination action which has a goal to create E&T requirements for GEN4 engineers. The counterpart of this task is the fusion energy goal oriented training (GOT) by Euratom-EFDA.

No:	1106
Conference:	Nuclear Energy for New Europe 2009
Title:	GEN4FIN – A R&D Platform for Educating Finnish Nuclear Engineers
Theme:	Education for Sustainable Nuclear Power
Author(s):	Rainer Salomaa, Riita Kyrki-Rajamäki, Timo Vanttola
Contact :	Rainer Salomaa
E-mail:	Rainer.Salomaa@hut.fi
Address:	Helsinki University of Technology FI-02015 TKK FI-02015 TKK
Country:	Finland

Recruiting nuclear energy professionals is a challenge to replace senior staff close to retirement and to solve the additional demand of personnel for recent modernization and new NPP projects. The Finnish public nuclear safety program Safir2010 aims to keep an adequate and wide enough basic expertise for the needs of the near-term NPP projects. Safir2010 addresses education and training issues, but consists of medium term tasks, practical applications and its researchers are usually experts. To provide a longer perspective and an emphasis on basic science and researcher training a national research programme GEN4FIN was established. Its theme is advanced nuclear fission energy concepts. Its objectives include also learning and validating of new methods and calculation tools applied to GEN4, providing new views by GEN4 projects into safety of present NPP concepts, and utilization of cross-cutting issues with, for instance, conceptual fusion power plant studies. A brief overview of the GEN4FIN research objectives and topics is given. The main subject areas include i.a. materials and reactor dynamics of supercritical water reactors. The GEN4FIN partners have experience on high power light water reactor technology (HPLWR). Research topics on high temperature reactor concepts have started. The Finnish simulation environment platform APROS is being extended to several GEN4 concepts, thorium cycle is reassessed and several projects on high temperature materials and fast reactor concepts are under way. The domestic resources and know-how in GEN4 studies are limited and, therefore, networking to international research programs must be exploited. GEN4FIN teams already participate in several EC projects. Our domestic nuclear research platform is linked to GEN4 studies and similarly to the SNE-TP in Europe. A detail worth mentioning is the ENEN-III co-ordination action which has a goal to create E&T requirements for GEN4 engineers. The counterpart of this task is the fusion energy goal oriented training (GOT) by Euratom-EFDA.