https://doi.org/10.1051/epjn/2025023
Review Article
Main goals and research outcomes of the EU Projects ELSMOR, McSAFER, and EASI-SMR: regulatory, experimental and analytical safety-related investigations
1
VTT Technical Centre of Finland ltd, Kivimiehentie 3, 02044 Espoo, Finland
2
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Hermann-vom-Helmholtz-Platz-1, 76244 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
3
EDF R&D, 6 quai Wattier, 78400 Chatou, France
* e-mail: ville.tulkki@vtt.fi
Received:
11
November
2024
Received in final form:
3
March
2025
Accepted:
23
April
2025
Published online: 7 July 2025
Small modular reactors are being developed globally with first new builds being planned within a decade. The most near-term designs are based on light water reactor technologies. While the fundamental technology is well known, the designs aim to utilize passive safety functions and simplifies systems to drive down costs. The correct operation of these functions must be ensured for these new nuclear reactors to be licensed in Europe. This paper discusses three projects funded by Euratom Research and Training programme: ELSMOR, McSAFER, and EASI-SMR.
In this paper, the main goals and selected outcomes of two European research projects that finished some months ago will be presented and discussed. In addition, the main goals and the research program of the EASI-SMR project will be described.
© V. Tulkki et al., Published by EDP Sciences, 2025
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
