European Commission

The European Commission embodies and upholds the general interest of the Union and is the driving force in the Union's institutional system. Its four main roles are to propose legislation to Parliament and the Council, to administer and implement Community policies, to enforce Community law (jointly with the Court of Justice) and to negotiate international agreements, mainly those relating to trade and cooperation.

List of the main European Material testing reactors

European Material Test Reactors (MTRs) have provided essential support for nuclear power programs over the last 40 years. Associated with hot laboratories for the post irradiation examinations, they are structuring research facilities for the European Research Area in the fission domain.
They address the development and the qualification of materials and fuels under irradiation with sizes and environment conditions relevant for nuclear power plants in order to optimise and demonstrate safe operations of existing and coming power reactors as well as to support future reactors design.

Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform

The Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform (SNETP) promotes research, development and demonstration of the nuclear fission technologies necessary to achieve the SET-Plan goals in this field:

• For the year 2020: (1) maintain competitiveness in fission technology, (2) provide long-term waste management solutions,
• For the year 2050, act now to: (1) complete the demonstration of a new generation (Gen IV) of fission reactors with increased sustainability, (2) enlarge nuclear fission applications beyond electricity production.
  

The Jules Horowitz Reactor (jhr)

the Jules Horowitz Reactor (JHR), built on the Cadarache site, will be a major infrastructure of European interest in the fission domain, open to the international collaboration. The Jules Horowitz Reactor will be built and operated in the framework of an international cooperation between several organizations bound by a Consortium Agreement. For the moment, the present partners are as follows:

• Research Institues: CIEMAT (Spain); SCK (Belgium); NRI (Czech Republic); VTT (Finland); the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) (France); DAE (India); JAEA (Japan)
  
• Utilities and Industrial Partners: “Electricité de France” (EDF); AREVA; VATTENFALL
  
• The European Commission

European Nuclear Education Network

The main objective of the ENEN Association is the preservation and the further development of expertise in the nuclear fields by higher education and training. This objective should be realized through the co-operation between universities, research organisations, regulatory bodies, the industry and any other organisations involved in the application of nuclear science and ionising radiation.

FISA 2009

FISA 2009 is the seventh in a series of international conferences on EU research and training in reactor systems organised by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research. It was held in Prague, Czech Republic, on 22-24 June 2009.
The main objectives of the conference was the dissemination of Euratom FP results and the cross-fertilisation of various disciplines, together with the creation of new science and technology partnerships for follow-up actions including training.