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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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