RAPHAEL interacts... 

STRATEGY

RAPHAEL strongly interacts with the European High Temperature Reactor Technology Network (HTR-TN), an association grouping most of the industrial, research and higher education organisations involved in the development of HTR/VHTR in Europe, whose objectives are to define a long-term R&D strategy, maintain a stable partnership, find resources, and to try and federate the different European programmes into a single consistent programme with a critical size and without gaps and useless duplications.

In addition, the RAPHAEL project is constituting two Advisory Groups:

• the Industrial Users Advisory Group (IUAG), comprising some high level executives from major potential users of the (V)HTR technology, ranging from utilities to manufacturers using high temp processes, including hydrogen producers. The group will be asked to express some advice on the project's strategy and main technological orientations.

• the Safety Advisory Group (SAG), with the IAEA and some representatives of the Safety Authorities of some European (and extra-European) countries. This group will review the safety approach addressed in the project.

The groups will meet approximately once a year, from 2006 on.
If you think your organisation corresponds and would be interested in joining one of these groups, please contact the coordinator.

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

COOPERATION WITH OTHER EUROPEAN PROGRAMMES

RAPHAEL also interacts with other FP6 projects in order to find synergies with other developments. Crossed specifications, regular interface meetings, balanced exchanges of results, and joint participations of several partners, are keys to mutual benefit with the following projects:

	Hydrogen production: cooperation with HYTHEC (HYdrogen THErmochemical Cycles) towards the coupling of a VHTR with high temperature hydrogen production process
	Plutonium & Minor Actinides Management in Thermal High Temperature Reactors ( PUMA )
	Gas-Cooled Fast Reactor :  finding synergies with GCFR in the development of materials, components and fuel with this other Gen IV concept
	Materials: contributing with ExtreMAT to the development of advanced materials under extreme conditions