Nuclear Innovation 2050 (NI2050)

NEA International Workshop on the Nuclear Innovation Roadmap

The two-day workshop held at the OECD Headquarters in Paris on 7-8 July 2015, brought together some of the leading experts in the field of nuclear fission research, development and demonstration. The purpose was to launch the NEA Nuclear Innovation 2050 Initiative, aiming, after a first survey phase, at producing a roadmap of main priority research programmes and infrastructures necessary to support the role nuclear energy may play in the low carbon power sector of the future. This might then further lead to some adhoc co-operation frameworks that help to effectively implement key priorities coming out of the roadmapping.

The workshop was organised into the following five sessions:

1. Opening session on NI2050: vision and main objectives
2. National presentations on nuclear fission research and innovation activities (programmes, infrastructures, budgets)
3. Presentations on some existing international nuclear fission roadmaps and co-operation frameworks
4. Defining the way forward for NI2050: survey, roadmapping and priorities and co-operation
5. Open discussion

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Workshop presentations and documents

NI2050 Advisory Panel Meetings

The workshop launch of the NEA NI2050 (Nuclear Innovation 2050) initiative proposed to establish an advisory panel to guide the roadmapping of nuclear fission R&D priorities to foster innovation, enabling nuclear energy to play its role in the low carbon energy future. This roadmapping is a forward-looking, top-down approach aimed at defining some priorities and gaps for nuclear R&D, based on a set of existing roadmaps. A first meeting of the advisory panel was held on 5-6 October 2015 in Paris where the objective, scope, methodology and process of roadmapping was discussed. Additional meetings of the advisory panel (also including specialised experts meetings operating under the umbrella of the advisory panel) continued until late 2018.

1st Meeting of the Advisory Panel, 5-6 October 2015

1. Nuclear Innovation Cooperation in the Low-Carbon Perspective – NEA NI2050 Initiative
2. Brainstorming and elements of Terms of References for Roadmapping and Advisory Panel
3. Summary Record of the Meeting [NEA/NDC(2015)26]

2nd Meeting of the Advisory Panel, 14-15 January 2016

1. Nuclear Innovation Cooperation - January 2016
2. Outcomes of Advisory Panel October 2015 -  January 2016
3. Overview of Nuclear Science Activities related to NI2050 - January 2016
4. Summary Record of the Meeting [NEA/NDC(2016)6]
5. Terms of Reference [NEA/NDC(2016)7]

3rd Meeting of the Advisory Panel, 20-21 June 2016

1. NI2050 Initiative - 3rd Advisory Panel Meeting
2. NI2050 Initiative Terms of Reference
3. NEA Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework
4. Overview of NEA Radioactive Waste Management related to NI2050
5. Overview of NEA Decommissioning related to NI2050
6. Summary Record of the Meeting [NEA/NDC(2016)16]

4th Meeting of the Advisory Panel, 8-10 March 2017

1. Nuclear Innovation 2050
2. A Perspective from Regulators on Innovation: NEA Activities on Regulatory Aspects for New Reactors
3. Defining Experimental Infrastructures - NSC Planned Activity and Link with NI2050
4. Summary Record of the Meeting [NEA/NDC(2017)15]

5th Meeting of the Advisory Panel, 25-26 Sepember 2017

1. State of Play of NI2050
2. NI2050 Survey and final Draft Report
3. Enhancing Experimental Support for Deployment of New Fuels and Materials
4. RTFDB and Possible links with NI2050
5. Summary Record of the Meeting [NEA/NDC(2017)30]

6th Meeting of the Advisory Panel, 1-2 February 2018

1. Defining Experimental Infrastructures - NSC Planned Activity and Link with NI2050
2. Summary Record of the Meeting [NEA/NDC(2018)8]

7th Meeting of the Advisory Panel, 22-23 November 2018

1. Revisiting three years of activities under the NI2050
2. Summary Record of the Meeting

NI2050 Roadmap Templates

• Enhancing Severe Accident Knowledge and Management, Didier Jacquemain IRSN
• Passive Safety Systems, Jean-Michel Evrard IRSN
• Ageing Management of Nuclear Power Plants, Abderrahim Al-Mazouzi EDF
• Innovative Fuels: Improving the Qualification Process to Accelerate Industrial Deployment, Kemal Pasamehmetoglu INL and Nathalie Chauvin CEA
• Advanced Structural Materials for Generation IV Systems, Lorenzo Malerba SCKCEN
• High Temperature Industrial Heat and Cogeneration, Dominique Hittner HTR Consultant
• Advanced Components for Generation IV: DHRS (Decay Heat Removal System) to Foster Safety and Economics, Hideki Kamide JAEA
• Advanced Fuel Cycle Chemistry and Recycling, Hamid Ait Abderrahim SCKCEN
• Nuclear Reactor Decommissioning Testing Facility, Michel Pieraccini EDF

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