Summary Report from the NKS Board Meeting in Stockholm, January 13-14, 2016
Change of Programme Manager for the NKS-B Programme
NKS expressed its sincere thanks to Karin Andgren for all her work, enthusiasm and cooperation as the NKS-R Programme Manager over the last two years and NKS would like to wish Karin good luck and every success in her career in the years ahead.
NKS warmly welcomes Emma Palm from the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) as the new NKS-R Programme Manager. Emma has been employed by SSM since 2013 where she mainly works as an analyst in thermal hydraulics and with the research projects sponsored by SSM. Emma has a PhD in physics from Lund University with a thesis in nuclear structure physics.
For all issues concerning the NKS-R programme please contact Emma at (emma.palm@ssm.se) (Tel. +46 (0) 8 799 40 41).
Call for Proposals 2016
NKS would like to thank all the applicants for proposals submitted to the NKS-R and NKS-B Call for Proposals 2016. The NKS board was impressed by the number and quality of the proposals received for funding under the NKS-R and NKS-B programmes. The successful proposals are listed below.
NKS-R Budget Decisions for 2016
The following activities have been awarded Funding.
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Activity Type
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Activity Name
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Activity Topic
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Activity Leader
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Funding (kDKK)
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Plant life management and extension
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BREDA_RPV
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Study of mechanical and microstructural properties of irradiated trepan samples from the RPV at Barsebäck 2
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Pål Efsing, KTH
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400
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Thermal hydraulics
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COPSAR
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Containment Pressure Suppression Systems Analysis for Boiling Water Reactors
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Markku Puustinen, LUT
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500
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Severe accident
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SPARC
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Scenarios and phenomena affecting risk of containment failure and release characteristics
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Pavel Kudinov, KTH
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600
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Org. & safety culture
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SC_AIM
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Safety culture assurance and improvement methods in complex projects
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Teemu Reiman, VTT
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410
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Risk analysis
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ADdGROUND
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Modelling as a tool to augment ground motion data in regions of diffuse seismicity
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Ludovic Fülöp, VTT
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500
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Reactor physics
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HYBRID
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Development of hybrid neutron transport methods and data visualisation tools
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Christophe Demazière, Chalmers
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500
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Risk analysis
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FIREBAN
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Determination of fire barrier’s reliability for fire risk assessment in NPP
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Patrick van Hees, LU
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450
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Risk analysis
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L3PSA
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Addressing off-site consequence criteria using Level 3 PSA
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Andrew Wallin Caldwell
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140
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IN TOTAL
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3500
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NKS-B Budget Decisions for 2016
The following activities have been awarded funding.
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Activity Type
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Activity Name
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Activity Topic
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Activity Leader
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Funding (kDKK)
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Emergency Preparedness
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MOMORC
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Mobile search of material outside of regulatory control
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Christopher Rääf, Lund university
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525
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Emergency Preparedness
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NISI
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Nordic in situ gamma intercomparison
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Alexander Mauring, NRPA
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225
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Measurement Strategy, technology, QA
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GAMMASPEC
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Seminars for users of gamma spectrometry
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Sven Nielsen, DTU
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395
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Emergency Preparedness
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MESO
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Meteorological uncertainty of short-range dispersion
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Jens Havskov Sørensen, DMI
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375
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Radioecological assessments
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NORCO
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Nordic Cosm Pilot Study
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Tanya Helena Hevrøy, NRPA
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435
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Measurement Strategy, technology, QA
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NORDIC ICP
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Nordic development and exploration of inductively coupled plasma spectrometry
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Jixin Qiao, DTU
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420
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Emergency Preparedness
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EFMARE
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Effects of dynamic behaviour of Nordic marine environment to radioecological assessments
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Per Roos, DTU
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395
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Emergency Preparedness
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COASTEX
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Scenarios and table top exercise concept on events related to traffic of nuclear-powered vessels and transportation of spent fuel along the Nordic coastline
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Inger Margrethe Eikelmann, NRPA
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330
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Emergency Preparedness
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NORDUM
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Intercomparison of Nordic unmanned aerial monitoring platforms
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Kasra Tazmini, NRPA
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400
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IN TOTAL
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3500
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NKS Seminar – Nordic perspectives of Fukushima: Where are we now and where do we go?
The seminar was held on the 12th and 13th of January, 2016, at Vattenfall in Stockholm, Sweden. The seminar addressed a wide range of nuclear safety and emergency preparedness related topics, covering results of recent NKS activities, as well as analyses and recommendations from other renowned experts. A total of 26 presentations were given, and the seminar had 100 participants. The speaker list included prominent international experts like Christopher Clements (ICRP), Ted Lazo (OECD/NEA) and Lyn Bevington (IAEA). It is hoped that the outcome of the seminar will show the way for new proposals for future NKS work and follow-up on relevant issues in reactor safety and emergency preparedness.
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