| SAFIR2010 research programme
on nuclear power plant safety for the years 2007-2010 is strongly based on
the chapter 7a, “Ensuring expertise”, of the Finnish Nuclear Energy Act. The
programme is the newest link in chain of public research programmes on
nuclear safety that have proved to excel in order to maintain and develop
know-how in Finland. The steering group of SAFIR2010 consists of
representatives from Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority
(STUK),
Ministry of Employment and the Economy
(MEE),
Technical Research Centre of Finland
(VTT),
Teollisuuden Voima Oy (TVO), Fortum
Power and Heat Oy, Fortum Nuclear Services Oy
(Fortum),
Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation
(Tekes), Helsinki
University of Technology (HUT) and
Lappeenranta University of Technology
(LUT). In
addition to representatives of these organisations, the Steering Group has
permanent experts from the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority
(SSM) and Fennovoima Oy
(Fennovoima).
SAFIR2010 research programme is
divided in eight research areas, which are:
1. Organisation and
human factors
2. Automation and control room
3. Fuel and reactor physics
4. Thermal hydraulics
5. Severe accidents
6. Structural safety of reactor circuit
7. Construction safety
8. Probabilistic safety analysis (PSA)
The planned volume of the SAFIR2010-programme is 7.0 M€ and 46 person
years in 2009. Research is carried out in 31 projects. |
