Projects

Within ANItA, we will initially work on fourteen projects that are staffed with doctoral students, postdocs as well as supervisors and researchers from academia and industry.

The projects, which will start in 2023, cover a wide range of both technical and non-technical disciplines. The projects are designed in such a way that they each focus on the aspects of SMR technology (small modular reactors) that today exhibit knowledge gaps. Taken together, the results from the projects constitute a body of knowledge that is well suited as a basis for society to be able to make knowledge-based decisions regarding the introduction of SMR technology in Sweden.

Projects within ANItA

SMR technologies and applications

Sweden’s future power and energy production scenarios
SMR designs suitable for Sweden’s future electric power production needs
Nuclear-Renewable Hybrid Energy Systems
Nuclear heat production systems

SMR-specific core, fuel, and operation

Fuel assembly and core design optimization for SMRs
Core monitoring techniques
Fuel performance studies supporting SMR utilization

SMR-specific reactor safety and safety systems

Design basis and beyond design basis scenarios, passive safety systems
Optimised chemistry for LWR SMRs
Structural material issues

Fuel cycles

Recycling of spent nuclear fuel
Non-proliferation and nuclear safeguards

Deployment of new nuclear technology in Sweden

Implementation of SMRs - effects of serial production on management of plant projects
Regulatory perspectives and licensing