The PASCAL project is devoted at significantly contribute to the advancement of the safety research on innovative Heavy Liquid Metal (HLM) cooled reactors, with the ambition to generate evidence that is ready-for-use in the discussions between the ALFRED and MYRRHA designers and the respective safety authorities in the pre-licensing phase.
\nThe goals of PASCAL also set an ambition of relevance and quality to the results, which is reflected in structuring and organizing the proposal.
\nRelevant experiments in representative conditions are planned, and – wherever applicable – accompaigned by simulations with the objective of extending their domain of validation and reducing uncertainties. The selected activities all address the main reference: supporting the justification of resilience to severe accident conditions, aiming to demonstrate the claim that no off-site emergency measures are needed for an HLM-cooled system. Finally, the project will strengthen the longstanding collaborations among European organizations, and will strongly support the education and training of a new generation of experts, to secure safety culture is preserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11036,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"gruppo":[124],"class_list":["post-13309","projects","type-projects","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","gruppo-high-performance-and-quantum-computing-biosciences-and-advanced-studies"],"acf":{"title":"Proof of Augmented Safety Conditions in Advanced Liquid metal cooled systems","acronym":"PASCAL","project_uuid":"54f0ae6e-f680-11ea-b597-506b8d36975d","start_date":"01\/11\/2020","end_date":"31\/10\/2024","funder":"EU H2020","partners":"\n
| Nome<\/th>\n | Nazione<\/th>\n | Ruolo<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Chalmers University Of Technology<\/a><\/td>\n | Sweden<\/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 |
| JRC-Joint research center- European Commission<\/a><\/td>\n | Belgium<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie <\/a><\/td>\n | Germany<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN<\/a><\/td>\n | Sweden<\/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 |
| Paul Scherrer Institut<\/a><\/td>\n | Switzerland<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| STUDIECENTRUM VOOR KERNENERGIE<\/a><\/td>\n | Belgium<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| SINTEC S.r.l.<\/a><\/td>\n | Italy<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT<\/a><\/td>\n | The Netherlands<\/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 |
| KAUNO TECHNOLOGIJOS UNIVERSITETAS<\/a><\/td>\n | Lithuania<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| INSTITUT VON KARMAN DE DYNAMIQUE DES FLUIDES<\/a><\/td>\n | Belgium<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n<\/table>","proj_website":"https:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/project\/id\/945341","project_status":"Execution","project_coordinator":[{"ID":10304,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:24:42","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:24:42","post_content":"Publications: https:\/\/publications.crs4.it\/pubdocs\/index.php?idAuthor=665 Vincent Moreau, senior researcher at CRS4, takes his degree in Numerical Analysis at Paris-XI University in 1990, makes his one year Scientific Service at ONERA on atmospheric lightning numerical modeling and undergoes a Ph.D. thesis at Paris-XI, presented in 1994, on \"Functional Analysis applied to pseudo-Newtonian flows\". In 1995, he works at ENEL-CRT of Pisa on two-phase flow simulation and modeling. He arrives at CRS4 in 1996 where he works on fluid-structure interaction. Since 1997, he works in the ADS field, making CFD simulations and analysis, participating to the FP5 PDS-XADS, FP6 EUROTRANS, FP7 THINS, CDT, SEARCH and MAXSIMA, and H2020 PASCAL and PATRICIA European projects. Between 2002 and 2014, he also works occasionally on turbulent combustion simulation. From 2015 to 2019 still by means of CFD analysis, he contributes in the H2020 framework to the MYRTE project on high level waste transmutation and to the SESAME project on the criticalities of the liquid metal fluid-dynamics for applications to the clean nuclear power of the future. Currently, still in the same field of activity, he contributes to the European Projects LESTO, TRANSPARANT and ANSELMUS as well as FALCON consortium.","post_title":"Vincent Moreau","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"vincent-moreau","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-05-01 20:13:18","post_modified_gmt":"2026-05-01 18:13:18","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/vincent-moreau\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"team_members":[{"ID":10042,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:25:47","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:25:47","post_content":"Manuela Profir received a M.Sc. degree in Mathematics in 2002, followed by a master in Geometry and Algebra in 2005 at the University of Iasi (Romania) and a PhD in Differential Geometry at the University of Cagliari in 2009. From 2010 to 2012, she was beneficiary of a grant for young researchers, co-funded by EU and RAS, at CRS4, developing a research project about the mesh morphing techniques in CFD simulation and analysis codes, with a geometric and topological approach. Since 2012, at CRS4 she has been applying the moving mesh methods \t \t \t \tfor the simulation and testing of the passive insertion of the control rods system in the case of a reactor emergency shutdown, in the framework of the FP7 MAXSIMA research project. Since 2016, in the framework of the H2020 SESAME, PATRICIA, PASCAL and ANSELMUS projects, she has been performing CFD simulations and modelling of pool type experiments and new generation reactor conceptual design. She regularly collaborates with the university and supervises undergraduate students for their professional training at CRS4.","post_title":"Maria Manuela Profir","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"maria-manuela-profir","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-05-01 20:14:34","post_modified_gmt":"2026-05-01 18:14:34","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/maria-manuela-profir\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},"yoast_head":"\n |