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Summary Report from the NKS Board Meeting in Oslo, January 17-18, 2017
Change of Programme Manager for the NKS-R Programme
NKS expressed its sincere thanks to Emma Palm for all her work, enthusiasm and cooperation as the NKS-R Programme Manager over the latest year and NKS would like to wish Emma good luck and every success in her career in the years ahead.
NKS warmly welcomes Christian Linde from the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) as the new NKS-R Programme Manager. Christian has been employed by SSM since 2013 where he mainly works as an analyst of severe accidents and leads and coordinates international projects. Christian holds a PhD in chemistry / organic chemistry from KTH.
For all issues concerning the NKS-R programme please contact Christian at (christian.linde@ssm.se).
Call for Proposals 2017
NKS would like to thank all the applicants for proposals submitted to the NKS-R and NKS-B Call for Proposals 2017. 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 2017
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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Decommissioning
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NORDEC
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Challenges and opportunities for improving Nordic nuclear decommissioning
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István Szőke, IFE
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524
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Organisation & 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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Kaupo Viitanen, VTT
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279
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Plant Life Management and Extension
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WRANC
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Validation of the relevance of the main mechanisms behind Warm Pre-Stressing in assessment of nuclear components
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Tobias Bolinder, Inspecta
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393
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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, CTH
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493
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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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393
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Severe Accidents
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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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524
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Thermal Hydraulics
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COPSAR
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Containment pressure suppression systems analysis for bioling water reactors
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Markku Puustinen, LUT
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493
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IN TOTAL
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3100
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NKS-B Budget Decisions for 2017
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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EPHSOGAM
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Early phase source term estimation from gamma spectra
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Mark Dowdall, NRPA
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381
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Emergency Preparedness
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AUTOMORC
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Improvement of automatic methods for identification of radioactive material out of regulatory control (MORC) by mobile gamma spectrometric search
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Christopher L. Rääf, Lund University
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452
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Measurement Strategy, technology, QA
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GAMMASPEC
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Seminar for users of gamma spectrometry
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Sven P. Nielsen, DTU
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381
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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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272
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Measurement Strategy, technology, QA
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CAMNAR
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Comparison of the analytical methods used to determine natural and artificial radionuclides from environmental samples by gamma, alpha and beta spectrometry
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Pia Vesterbacka, STUK
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363
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Emergency Preparedness
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NEXUS
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Nordic exercise for unmanned systems
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Magnus Gårdestig, Linköping University
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390
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Emergency Preparedness
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AVESOME
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Added value of uncertainty estimates of source term and meteorology
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Jens Havskov Sørensen, DMI
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435
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Emergency Preparedness
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RADSHIELD
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Activity estimation of shielded or hidden radionuclides in emergency conditions
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Henrik Ramebäck, FOI
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426
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IN TOTAL
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3100
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