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Nuclear Fission Research &

Inovation Funding in Slovenia

Contribution to the NEA NI205 (Nuclear

Innovation 2050) workshop July 2015

Leon Cizelj Head, Reactor Engineering Division, Jožef Stefan Institute

Associate Profesor of Nuclear Engineering, Faculty of Mathematics

and Physics, University of Ljubljana

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Overview

• Nuclear Slovenia

• Public Funding of (Nuclear Fission) Reseach

• Sources

• Priorities

• Budgets

• Summary

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Rough estimates!

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Austria Hungary

Italy Uranium mine (closed)

TRIGA

Intermediate LILW storage

LILW Repository (location)

NPP at Krško Westinghouse

700 MWe

Population 2,000,000 GDP 28,000 $ Area 20,273 km2

Croatia

Ljubljana

Zagreb

Nuclear Slovenia

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Nuclear Fission Research (no public R&I funding is earmarked as nuclear!)

Mostly @ Jožef Stefan Institute

• Total: ~900 people, 45 MEUR annually

• Budget 2014:

• 70% research agency (PhD., research, infrastructure)

• 15% FP EC, ERC

• 15% consulting , including TSO to the nuclear regulatory

body

• Nuclear fission: ~ 50 (100) people, 2.5 MEUR

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Nuclear fission @ JSI

Research topics

Reactor physics

Thermal hydraulics

Ageing and Integrity

Severe Accidents

PSA

Radiation protection

Radiochemistry

International frames

FP5, 6, 7, H2020

SNETP

NUGENIA

ENEN

ETSON

IAEA

OECD/NEA

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Nuclear Fission Research Funding (no public R&I funding is earmarked as nuclear!)

Slovenian Research Agency (competitive) • 15% Ph D support (3-4 years support for Ph D

students)

• 20% projects (blue sky, 2-3 years, 10% success)

• 45% programs („stability“, reevaluations every 4-6 years, 80% success)

• 20% infrastructures (co-funding operations-maintenance of existing, competitive investments)

• Competitive: publish or perish

Nuclear Safety Administration (regulatory research) • No funding since 2010. Before up to 0.25 MEUR

annualy, competitive.

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Budget by Category & Year (rough estimates, >90% safety of existing installations!)

Category 2005 2010 2015 2020

Total national public sources (regulator) 1.55 (.4) 1.35 (0.2) 0.75 (0.0) ?

Reactor Physics & Thermal Hydraulics (PWR, sodium, lead)

0.40 0.40 0.20 ?

Plant System Analysis (deterministic, probabilistic, severe acc)

0.50 0.40 0.25 ?

Fuel Cycle 0.00 0 0 ?

Waste management, decomm 0.00 0 0 ?

Cross cutting (materials, I&C, health effects, human f.)

0.40 0.35 0.15 ?

Infrastructures (TRIGA, hot cells) 0.25 0.20 0.15 ?

Ph D Education (# of graduates/year) 2 1-2 1 ?

Non Nuclear (medical physics) ? ? ? ?

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Summary for Slovenia (public funding sources for Nuclear Fission)

• No public R&I funding earmarked Nuclear

Fission:

• Budgets for the requested categories traceable,

but might require substantial efforts.

• Only competitive funding available:

• Research priorities defined by the funding agency!

• Sustainability of nuclear (safety) research?

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