Agenzia Nazionale per le Nuove Tecnologie, l'Energia e lo Sviluppo Economico Sostenibile

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ENEA
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Italy

ENEA is the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development. The Agency's main research issues are identified as follows: Energy Efficiency; Renewable Energy Sources; Nuclear Energy, Climate and the Environment; Safety and Health; New Technologies and Electric System Research. Specifically, the Agency‟s activities are devoted to: basic, mission-oriented, and industrial research exploiting wide-ranging expertise as well as experimental facilities; specialized laboratories; advanced equipment; new technologies and advanced applications; dissemination and transfer of research results, thus promoting their exploitation for production purposes; providing public and private bodies with high-tech services, studies, measurements, tests and assessments; and training and information activities aimed at broadening sector expertise and public knowledge and awareness. The Agency's multidisciplinary competences and great expertise in managing complex research projects are put at the disposal of the Country system.

The Technical Unit for Nuclear Fission Technologies and Facilities, and Nuclear Material Management (UTFISST) has four laboratories:

  1. The Research Reactors Laboratory (UTFISST-REANUC) uses neutron flux-channels from nuclear research reactors (TRIGA RC-1 and RSV TAPIRO) to conduct activities as: characterization of materials under irradiation; and validation of neutronic codes among others.
  2. The Engineering Simulation Laboratory (UTFISST-SIMING) has expertise in benchmarking different codes to validate experimental data coming from plant data.
  3. The Radwaste Management and Final Disposal Laboratory (UTFISST-RADSITO) has among its main activities: innovative techniques for safe nuclear waste disposal; reliability analyses for the definition of suitable sites for production plants and radioactive waste disposal; and national integrated system for the collection of non-electronuclear radioactive wastes and sources.
  4. The Nuclear Material Characterization Laboratory (UTFISST-CATNUC) main activities are: radioactive waste characterization and radioactive waste treatment and conditioning Processes.

Relevant experience

ENEA has participated in several EURATOM funded projects concerning Gen. IV technologies (e.g., ADRIANA, LEADER, MATTER,..) and it is an active contributor to the OECD/NEA IRPHE project, devoted to the reactor physics experiments evaluation. ENEA is also an active member of the SNETP and NUGENIA institutions. ENEA personnel contributed to uncertainty methods development and applications to nuclear data and nuclear systems.

Role and main tasks

ENEA is involved in the project through participation in WP1 Task 1.2, concerning the coordination of nuclear data priorities for increased safety of nuclear systems with international organizations. The participation of ENEA in several OECD/NEA and IAEA nuclear data working groups for the prioritization of nuclear data activities will insure that the priorities from the CHANDA community for increased safety of nuclear will be correctly integrated in the international databases of nuclear data needs. ENEA is also involved in activities of WP12 Task12.3, focused on the Integral Experiment data assimilation of integral experiments.

Scientific and technical personnel involved

  • Massimo Sepielli: Engineer responsible of UTFISST (Tecnologie ed Impianti per la Fissione e la Gestione del Materiale Nucleare - Technologies and Plants for Nuclear Fission and for Management of Nuclear Material) at ENEA, Casaccia, Italy. Expert in nuclear techniques and instrumentation. His team manages the TRIGA and TAPIRO research reactors.
  • Alfonso Santagata: About 10 years of experience in designing nuclear systems applying Monte Carlo technique (MCNP/X and FLUKA codes). He has taken part in various international projects investigating the feasibility of using an Accelerator Driven System (ADS) to burn nuclear waste. Nowadays he is technical director and supervisor at the RSV TAPIRO research reactor.
  • Fabrizio Pisacane: Was involved at ENEA Casaccia Research Center in the activities related to the design of the Integrated Protection and Control System (IPCS) of LWR nuclear power plants at the Department of Thermal Reactors. From 1995 to 2000 he was at the Department of Material Science in the Simulation Laboratory. Since 2000 he is a senior researcher at the Department of Nuclear Technologies. He is specialized in simulation of Nuclear Reactor Physics with Monte Carlo codes.
  • Carlo Parisi: Specialized in developing neutronic and thermal-hydraulic coupled codes models and in performing safety analyses for different types of nuclear power plant. He has worked at the licensing process of the Atucha-2 NPP as responsible of the neutronic calculations (MCNP/NESTLE/SCALE codes). Since 2011 he is a researcher at ENEA, at the Engineering Simulator Laboratory of the Casaccia Research Center. 
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