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MTR-I3: Material Testing Reactor Integrated Infrastructure Initiative
MTR+I3 is an Integrated Infrastructure Initiative to reinforce European experimental capabilities for testing material and fuel by:
- building a durable cooperation between Material Testing Reactor (MTR) operators and relevant laboratories,
- maintaining the European leadership with up-dated capabilities and competences,
- improving and structuring services with coordinated developments and uses of existing MTRs,
- preparing the future European landscape by implementing Jules Horowitz Reactor (JHR) and subsequent complementary research reactors.
MTRs are polyvalent research infrastructures able to reproduce different reactor environments (water, gas or liquid metal loops). Beyond high neutron flux capability to accelerate the ageing, they offer high flexibility and accessibility to manage several highly instrumented experiments. They are widely used for screening purposes and for qualification of materials and fuel relevant for the safety of existing power reactors and for future reactors developments.
By reinforcing existing MTRs experimental capability and by integrating MTRs’ community, MTR+I3 is an important step toward a European Research Area infrastructure policy in the fission domain. Beyond short term impacts, MRT+I3 has a strong added value for mid-term and long term project such as the JHR project and subsequent European research reactors.
Website: http://www.mtri3.eu/
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