A project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme aims to find improvements in the way combustible gases are managed in the event of a severe accident at an operational nuclear power plant.
The four-year AMHYCO (Towards An Enhanced Accident Management Of The Hydrogen/CO Combustion Risk) project began on 1 October and is being led by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) with a number of project partners*.
A statement said the project will target an area that has not been addressed in previous EU and OECD projects: hydrogen and carbon monoxide (H2/CO) combustion risk management in severe accidents for nuclear power plants. The statement did not say how much funding was involved, but said the project had received a grant from Horizon 2020, the biggest EU Research and innovation programme with nearly €80bn of funding available over seven years, from 2014 to 2020.
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