Start date 1 September 2020
End date 31 August 2024
Project cost € 23 773 742,75
Project funding € 14 000 000
Unipi quota € 175 000
Call title NFRP-2019-2020
Funding scheme RIA - Research and Innovation action
Unipi role Partner

For radioactive waste to be safely disposed of, certain requirements need to be met for its management prior to disposal. With this in mind, the EU-funded PREDIS project aims to develop and carry out activities for the pre-disposal treatment of radioactive waste – not including nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. To this end, it will advance treatment and conditioning methodologies for waste for which no adequate or industrially mature solutions currently exist. It will also test and assess innovations in cemented waste handling and pre-disposal storage. The tools produced by the project will guide decision making on the developed technologies and their impact on waste management and disposal.

The PREDIS project targets the development and implementation of activities for pre-disposal treatment of radioactive waste streams other than nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. Member States will profit from measurable benefits including the further development and increase in Technological Readiness Level of treatment and conditioning methodologies for wastes for which no adequate or industrially mature solutions are currently available, including metallic material (WP4), liquid organic waste (WP5) and solid organic waste (WP6), and by testing and evaluating innovations in cemented waste handling and pre-disposal storage (WP7). These technical Work Packages align with priorities formulated within the Roadmap Theme 2 of EURAD and with those identified by the project’s industrial End Users Group (EUG), and follow the 50% co-funding principle. Furthermore, PREDIS will produce tools guiding decision-making on the added value of the developed technologies and their impact on the design, safety and economics of waste management and disposal (WP2).

PREDIS will also liaise with EURAD to provide complementarity on areas including the adaptation and update of the reference founding documents of the EJP (vision, roadmap, governance and implementation mechanisms) (WP2), and the organisation of training courses and mobility training schemes to enhance sharing and transfer of knowledge and competences as part of knowledge management activities (WP3). The PREDIS consortium, which includes 47 partners from 18 Member States, and EUG, which specifically targets Radioactive Waste Producers (RWP) as a separate group within the radioactive waste management process. PREDIS also encompasses the wider European Community, allowing cross-fertilisation and interaction between different national programmes. Numerous dissemination activities (WP1), including with Nugenia, IAEA and NEA, will be undertaken to maximize PREDIS’s impact to all the identified Stakeholders in the field

Coordinator

Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy, Finland

Other participants

• NATIONAL NUCLEAR LABORATORY LIMITED, United Kingdom
• JRC -JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE- EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Belgium
• INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM, France
• COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, France
• STUDIECENTRUM VOOR KERNENERGIE / CENTRE D'ETUDE DE L'ENERGIE NUCLEAIRE, Belgium
• BUNDESANSTALT FUER MATERIALFORSCHUNG UND -PRUEFUNG, Germany
• MAGICS INSTRUMENTS, Belgium
• TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA, Bulgaria
• CESKE VYSOKE UCENI TECHNICKE V PRAZE, Czechia
• CENTRUM VYZKUMU REZ SRO, Czechia
• STATNI USTAV RADIACNI OCHRANY v.v.i., Czechia
• UJV REZ, a. s., Czechia
• HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO, Finland
• CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS, France
• ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLE, France
• INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SURETE NUCLEAIRE, France
• ORANO CYCLE, France
• DMT GmbH & CO. KG, Germany
• FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH GMBH, Germany
• KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE, Germany
• "NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH "DEMOKRITOS", Greece
• ISOTOPTECH NUKLEARIS TECHNOLOGIAI ES SZOLGALTATO ZARTKORUEN MUKODO RESZVENYTARSASAG, Hungary
• RADIOOKOLOGIAI TISZTASAGERT TARSADALMI SZERVEZET, Hungary
• TS ENERCON MERNOKIRODA KFT, Hungary
• ANSALDO NUCLEARE SPA, Italy
• AGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, L'ENERGIA E LO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE, Italy
• ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI FISICA NUCLEARE, Italy
• NUCLECO SOCIETA PER L'ECOINGEGNERIA NUCLEARE SOCIETA PER AZIONI, Italy
• POLITECNICO DI MILANO, Italy
• SOCIETA' GESTIONE IMPIANTI NUCLEARI PER AZIONI, Italy
• UNIVERSITA DI PISA, Italy
• VALSTYBINIS MOKSLINIU TYRIMU INSTITUTAS FIZINIU IR TECHNOLOGIJOS MOKSLU CENTRAS, Lithuania
• NUCLEAR RESEARCH AND CONSULTANCY GROUP, Netherlands
• INSTITUTT FOR ENERGITEKNIKK, Norway
• REGIA AUTONOMA TEHNOLOGII PENTRU ENERGIA NUCLEARA - RATEN, Romania
• AMPHOS 21 CONSULTING SL, Spain
• CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES ENERGETICAS, MEDIOAMBIENTALES Y TECNOLOGICAS-CIEMAT, Spain
• AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DEINVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS, Spain
• EMPRESA NACIONAL DE RESIDUOS RADIOACTIVOS SA, Spain
• UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE MADRID, Spain
• PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUT, Switzerland
• GALSON SCIENCES LIMITED, United Kingdom
• THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, United Kingdom
• THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, United Kingdom
• NATIONAL SCIENCE CENTER KHARKOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY, Ukraine
• INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE, Ukraine