Shortening the time-to market of the LFR technology is an ambitious, but undeniably important factor to attract additional\u00a0investments, thanks to the lower initial risk, added flexibility, and faster return of experience. Industries and utilities sharing the vision\u00a0of a competitive LFR of a small and medium-size with modular features will be attracted by the compressed deployment roadmap,\u00a0and will play a leverage role at national and European level, strengthening synergies and creating public\u2013private\u2013partnership\u00a0opportunities. In this context, the European community working on the LFR development and deployment assumed the\u00a0commitment, among others, to highlight the technical open issues and existing research infrastructures, aiming to support the R&D\u00a0phase through European, national and in-kind contribution of the involved partners. The aim of the LESTO project is moving on along\u00a0the depicted roadmap, aiming at further developing the LFR technology, supporting the demonstration that LFRs can be designed,\u00a0sited, constructed, commissioned and operated in line with the requirements of the actual safety standards, with particular focus on\u00a0their safety features and passive safety systems. Along the project the most relevant facilities in Europe and UK will be adopted to\u00a0implement a large and very comprehensive experimental database for code validation, safety assessment and component\/system\u00a0demonstration. Among the others, it is worth to mention the large-scale pool type ATHENA facility, being commissioned in Romania,\u00a0the CIRCE pool in Italy, as well as MELECOR in UK. These facilities, with the support of research infrastructure in Belgium, Germany and\u00a0Sweden represent the state of art for the LFR R&D. Large emphasis will be devoted to transient analysis in large pools, allowing the\u00a0community to cross the death valley from laboratory to industry scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9796,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"gruppo":[124],"class_list":["post-12558","projects","type-projects","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","gruppo-high-performance-and-quantum-computing-biosciences-and-advanced-studies"],"acf":{"title":"LEad fast reactor Safety design and TOols","acronym":"LESTO","project_uuid":"8357d47b-dc9d-11ee-bf28-506b8d36975d","start_date":"01\/11\/2024","end_date":"31\/08\/2028","funder":"EURATOM 2027","partners":"\n
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| Agenzia Nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile<\/a><\/td>\n | Italy<\/td>\n | Coordinator<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| ANSALDO NUCLEARE SPA<\/a><\/td>\n | Italy<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per la Ricerca Tecnologica Nucleare<\/a><\/td>\n | Italy<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| von Karman Institute for fluid-dynamics<\/a><\/td>\n | Belgium<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Regia Autonoma Tehnologii pentru Energia Nucleara - RATEN<\/a><\/td>\n | Romania<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Kungliga Tekniska H\u00f6gskolan<\/a><\/td>\n | Sweden<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie <\/a><\/td>\n | Germany<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Chalmers University Of Technology<\/a><\/td>\n | Sweden<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnologicas<\/a><\/td>\n | Spain<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| NUCLEAR RESEARCH AND CONSULTANCY GROUP<\/a><\/td>\n | The Netherlands<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| SINTEC S.r.l.<\/a><\/td>\n | Italy<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
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