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Table 2. FP6 Integrated Projects and Networks of Excellence in RWM
Project title & description 1 Instrument Coordinating
Number of
consortium
organisation
partners 2
NF-PRO – Understanding and
EU contribution
/
total cost
Start date &
duration
physical and numerical modelling
of the key processes in the nearfield
and their coupling for different
host rocks & repository strategies.
www.nf-pro.org
IP
SCK.CEN
(B)
40 (10)
€8M /
€16.8M
1/1/04
4 years
ESDRED – Engineering Studies
and Demonstrations of Repository
Designs. www.esdred.info
IP
ANDRA
(FR)
13 (9)
€7.32M /
€18.1M
1/2/04
5 years
FUNMIG – Fundamental processes
of radionuclide migration.
www.funmig.com
PAMINA – Performance Assess-
IP
FZK-INE
(DE)
51 (15)
€8M /
€15M
1/1/05
4 years
ment Methodologies in Application
to Guide the Development of the
Safety Case. www.ip-pamina.eu
IP GSF (DE) 25 (10)
€4M /
€7.62M
1/10/06
38 months
EUROPART – European research
program for the partitioning of minor
actinides and some long-lived
fission products from high active
wastes issuing the reprocessing of
spent nuclear fuels. www.europart-
project.org/
EUROTRANS – European Research
Programme for the Transmutation
of High-Level Waste in
an Accelerator Driven System.
http://nuklearserver.fzk.de/eurotrans/Start.html
ACTINET-6 – Network for Actinide
Sciences
www.actinet-network.org
IP CEA (FR) 27 (11)
IP
FZK- NUK-
LEAR (DE)
96
32 (15)
NoE CEA (FR) 27 (13)
€6M /
€10.3M
€23M /
€43M
€6.35M /
€10.5M
1/1/04
3-4 years
(work continues
in FP7 project
ACSEPT)
1/4/05
5 years
1/3/04
4-5 years
(work continues
in FP7 project
ACTINET-I3)
1 Refer to http://cordis.europa.eu/fp6-euratom/projects.htm (“management of radioactive waste”)
2 The figures in parentheses indicate number of different European countries represented.
Table 3. Brief descriptions of the major FP6 projects
NF-PRO has been investigating dominant processes and their couplings affecting the isolation of nuclear
waste within the near-field. It has been applying and developing conceptual and mathematical models for
predicting the source-term release of radionuclides from the near-field to the far-field. Results and conclusions
of experimental and modelling work are being integrated in performance assessments. To understand
the performance of the overall near-field system, an adequate insight in both the performance of the individual
near-field sub-systems and their interactions is essential and this constitutes the core of the integration
component of the project. The consortium of 40 partners represents 7 European waste management
agencies, 25 research institutions and 8 Universities.