Climate change is one of the main issues facing humanity. Due to its low CO2 emission, nuclear power is part of a sustainable energy mix. However, safety and waste issues cannot be taken lightly. For the latter the way forward is to recycle spent fuel with the goal to close the fuel cycle. This eases ultimate radioactive waste management, increases proliferation resistance and drastically improves economy and sustainability by better use of fuel resources.
\nThe SNETP deployment plan describes a technical needs fuel recycling including partitioning of spent fuel, fabrication and characterisation of minor actinide bearing fuel and the development of transmutation systems.
\nThis proposal follows that plan and answers to NRFP7 of the 2018-2019 EURATOM call: Research and Innovation for Partitioning and\/or Transmutation. It focusses on research on advanced partitioning to efficiently separate Am from spent fuel, on experimental and fuel performance code development work studying the behaviour of Am bearing fuel under irradiation and on the safety related research supporting the licensing process of MYRRHA in its role in the development trajectory for a dedicated accelerator driven transmuter. It may be noted that for first time, the communities working of partitioning, transmutation and the development of MYRRHA are joint in one project.
\nBesides the technical work described above, dedicated work packages deals with education focussing on pre-and post-graduate students, and with dissemination where besides the specific stakeholders also high school pupils and the general public is targeted. A further task on knowledge management includes the both foreground data as well as metadata to so ensure proper QA for V&V is possible. The project is performed using a combination of experiments, theoretical studies and numerical simulations for which the expertise of 26 research centres and universities from 14 EU countries, Switzerland, Korea, Russia and the US is pooled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11045,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"gruppo":[124],"class_list":["post-13314","projects","type-projects","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","gruppo-high-performance-and-quantum-computing-biosciences-and-advanced-studies"],"acf":{"title":"Partitioning And Transmuter Research Initiative in a Collaborative Innovation Action ","acronym":"PATRICIA","project_uuid":"c70ac3dd-7800-11ea-bbd4-506b8d36975d","start_date":"01\/09\/2020","end_date":"31\/08\/2024","funder":"EU H2020","partners":"\n
| Nome<\/th>\n | Nazione<\/th>\n | Ruolo<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
|---|---|---|
| STUDIECENTRUM VOOR KERNENERGIE<\/a><\/td>\n | Belgium<\/td>\n | Coordinator<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Agenzia Nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile<\/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 |
| Commissariat A L Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives<\/a><\/td>\n | France<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Chalmers University Of Technology<\/a><\/td>\n | Sweden<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Pisa<\/a><\/td>\n | Italy<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Politecnico di Milano<\/a><\/td>\n | Italy<\/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 |
| ForschungsZentrum J\u00fclich GMBH<\/a><\/td>\n | Germany<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| NATIONAL NUCLEAR LABORATORY LIMITED<\/a><\/td>\n | United Kingdom<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG<\/a><\/td>\n | Germany<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| University of Leeds<\/a><\/td>\n | United Kingdom<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| CENTRUM VYZKUMU REZ SRO<\/a><\/td>\n | Czech Republic<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
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| Regia Autonoma Tehnologii pentru Energia Nucleara - RATEN<\/a><\/td>\n | Romania<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| European Organization for Nuclear research<\/a><\/td>\n | Switzerland<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Paul Scherrer Institut<\/a><\/td>\n | Switzerland<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Universiteit Gent<\/a><\/td>\n | Belgium<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| TEXAS A and M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM<\/a><\/td>\n | United States Minor Outlying Islands<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY<\/a><\/td>\n | Korea, Republic of<\/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<\/table>","proj_website":"https:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/project\/id\/945077","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":"2026-04-06 19:12:37","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-06 17:12:37","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":"2026-04-06 19:13:31","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-06 17:13:31","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 |