Activities

To reach these objectives, all the organizations networked in SARNET contribute to a so-called Joint Programme of Activities (JPA), which can be broken in several elements:
* Implementing an advanced communication tool for fostering exchange of information;
* Harmonizing and re-orienting the research programmes, and defining commonly new ones;
* Analysing commonly the experimental results provided by research programmes in order to elaborate a common understanding of concerned phenomena;
* Developing ASTEC, (integral computer code used to predict the NPP behaviour during a postulated SA), which capitalizes in terms of models the knowledge produced within SARNET;
* Developing Scientific Databases, in which all the results of research programmes are stored;
* Developing a common methodology for Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA) of NNPs;
* Developing educational courses and text/source books;
* Promoting personnel mobility between the various European organisations.

 

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In order to preserve the interest of the different organizations, a clear policy in terms of knowledge management, notably regarding access rights, has been defined. Reports on “protected” data will only be distributed to members who, through the activity they offer, increase significantly the value of the data (production of analyses, model development and assessment). In any case, the outcome of these programmes are models implemented in ASTEC and safety assessment methodologies, which will be available for all the SARNET members, or other European organizations that would like to use them for safety assessment or improvement of NPPs.