Fuetterer Michael

A pathway to Europe's competitiveness: the clean transition

Marelli Luisa, GASTALDI Chiara, TRANE Matteo, GUERREIRO MIGUEL Mecia et autres

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the European Union’s clean transition as a pathway towards competitiveness. Adopting a systems-thinking perspective, it examines how coordinated action across climate, energy, circular economy, mobility, agri-food systems, biodiversity and ecosystems protection can contribute to a …

Clean Energy Technology Observatory: Nuclear Power in the European Union - 2025 Status Report on Technology Development, Trends, Value Chains and Markets

Kopecky Stefan, ALBORA Giambattista, GEORGAKAKI Aliki, INCE Ela et autres

Nuclear fission technology plays a crucial role in Europe's energy landscape, providing nearly a quarter of the electricity produced in the region. With approximately 100 active nuclear power reactors Europe operates almost a quarter of the global power reactors. Meanwhile, China is …

Fuel and graphite waste management strategies for the HTGR reactor GEMINI+

HITTNER Dominique, Fuetterer Michael, HAVETTE Julien, MUSZYNSKI Dominik et autres

The first HTGR developments in Germany, as well as in the US have considered High-Enriched-Uranium (HEU) and reprocessing as the reference option. Direct disposal and the use of Low-Enriched-Uranium (LEU) were initiated in the late 1970s’, due to nuclear proliferation concerns and …

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Industrial Applications of Nuclear Energy

Alexandre Bredimas, İbrahim Dinçer, Rami Salah El-Emam, Fuetterer Michael et autres

Background: Nuclear energy can be used for various industrial applications, such as seawater desalination, hydrogen production, district heating or cooling, the extraction of tertiary oil resources and process heat applications such as cogeneration, coal to liquids conversion and assistance in the synthesis …

Operation and Utilisation of the High Flux Reactor: Annual Report 2015

Fuetterer Michael, Elio D’Agata, Carsten Ohms, Lapetite Jean-Marc et autres

The High Flux Reactor (HFR) at Petten is managed by the Institute for Energy and Transport (IET) of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) and operated by the Nuclear Research and consultancy Group (NRG) which is also the licence holder and …

High Temperature Nuclear Reactor SWOT Analysis

Cuadrado Garcia Patricia, Alonso Zabalo Felix, Roelofs Ferry, Knol Steven et autres

This analysis focuses on identifying the intrinsic strengths and weaknesses of the (Very) High Temperature Reactor – HTR – at the latest state of the technology. The potential opportunities offered by the future HTR market and the factors and threats that limit\nits …

Experience Feedback from Nuclear Cogeneration

Auriault Camille, Fuetterer Michael, O. Baudrand

A consortium of 20 companies currently runs the NC2I-R (Nuclear Cogeneration Industrial Initiative – Research) project as part of the European Union's 7th Framework Programme. The project supports the development of an industrial initiative to demonstrate nuclear cogeneration of heat and power …

Beyond carbon capture and storage: CO2 as chemical feedstock

Fuetterer Michael, Evangelos Tzimas, Steen Marc, Bocin Dumitriu Andrei et autres

The article is a joint contribution of units F.4, F.2 and F.6 in the internal to EC periodical of JRC "Scanning the Horizon" (Issue No 4, March 2013).

Very High Temperature Reactor (VHTR) System

Li Fu, Fuetterer Michael, DE Groot Sander, Sadhankar Ramesh et autres

Among the six candidates of the Gen IV nuclear systems in the Technology Roadmap of the Generation IV International Forum (GIF), the Very High Temperature Reactor (VHTR) is primarily dedicated to the cogeneration of electricity and hydrogen, the latter being extracted from …

Communicating Nuclear Topics to the Public - On the Use of Telecasts for Edutainment

Norbert Frischauf, Fuetterer Michael, Mcgarry Darren, Baldauf Gert et autres

ARCHER, the current European R&D project on Advanced High-Temperature Reactors for Cogeneration of Heat and Electricity is expanding the HTR technology to support demonstration of nuclear cogeneration as an alternative to fossil fuel use in industry. Nuclear cogeneration is identified as a …

UNIQUE IRRADIATION RIGS DEVELOPED FOR THE HFR PETTEN AT THE JRC-IE: LYRA, QUATTRO AND FUEL IRRADIATION FACILITIES

Luigi Debarberis, Acosta Iborra Beatriz, Jarmila Degmová, Andrej Zeman et autres

The HFR Petten is a key research reactor in Europe and in the course of the last decades several dedicated irradiation facilities have been developed and successfully operated. For example, as regards materials irradiation, in the frame of the European Network AMES …

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Operation and Utilisation of the High Flux Reactor - Annual Report 2009

Elio D’Agata, Fuetterer Michael, Nievaart Sander, Carsten Ohms et autres

The High Flux Reactor (HFR) at Petten is managed by the Institute for Energy (IE) of the EC - DG JRC and operated by NRG who are also licence holder and responsible for commercial activities.\nThe HFR operates at 45 MW and is …