Translation of "étude d'évaluation du réacteur de puissance " (French → English) :

Advanced nuclear systems: Improved efficiency of present systems and fuels and the study of advanced reactor systems in order to assess their potential, proliferation resistance and impacts on long-term sustainability, including basic and key cross-cutting research activities (such as material science) and the study of the fuel cycle, innovative fuels and waste management aspects, including partitioning and transmutation the more efficient use of fissile material in existing reactors.

Targeted experimental investigations will be carried out to enable the validation and verification of the safety assessment tools and to improve the understanding of the underlying physical phenomena and processes. The JRC is fully involved in the international efforts for an advanced nuclear reactor safety.

Of course all these measures cannot simply be decreed, they entail scientific studies and reports. This is where the reform of the CFP should have begun, in order to obtain more information on resources and set an example of responsible fishing to the world, by creating specific scientific programmes for the various species, classified by geographical areas of the sea, in order to evaluate on a permanent basis the state of stocks and their biological evolution, learn about their spawning areas and seasons, which particularly require protection, promote research and training and oceanographic research projects using our own vessels and th ...[+++]e enormous resources we have available under the EU's RD programmes, and winning the battle against public opinion, which because of either bias or the simplistic influence of the media, considers fishing and fishermen as merely predatory.

Nuclear safety The European Union/Russia nuclear safety programme, funded by TACIS, focusses on four different but complementary topics: assistance on six nuclear sites, by which experience is transferred in the operation of nuclear plants; design safety, comprising safety studies relating to the appraisal, definition and remedial proposals for VVER, RBMK or fast breeder reactors; support to regulatory authorities for the development of a strong technical and legal basis in fields such as licensing, training and inspections; the waste and fuel cycle, providing advice on management of waste and matters such as the transport of fuel.

In the case of, say, the CANDU reactor sale — $1.5 billion of Canadian government loan guarantees for projects that were not assessed at all, or they were assessed inadequately, through a screening or a comprehensive study.

The aim of this programme is : - to develop and improve fuel materials for fast breeder reactors, - to recognize, evaluate and, if possible, reduce risks arising from the presence of transuranium elements in the nuclear fuel cycle, - to study fundamental solid-state properties of transuranium elements and their compounds, - to collect all information concerning the technical potential, the health hazards and the availibility of transuranium elements.