PATRICIA, the Partitioning And Transmuter Research Initiative in a Collaborative Innovation Action, is established in NFRP-7 “Safety Research and Innovation for Partitioning and Transmutation” of the EURATOM work programme 2019-2020.
PATRICIA follows that plan and answers the EURATOM call: Research and Innovation for Partitioning and/or Transmutation. It focuses on research on advanced partitioning to efficiently separate Am from spent fuel, on experimental and fuel performance code development work studying the behaviour of Am bearing fuel under irradiation and on the safety related research supporting the licensing process of MYRRHA in its role in the development trajectory for a dedicated accelerator driven transmuter.
The methodologies and results from the project will be published in open access journals or freely accessible reports. In addition, this site will contain an open database with relevant results. This will enable other researchers to utilize the results for further studies.
The PATRICIA project (01/09/2020 - 31/08/2024) is co-funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under grant agreement No. 945077.