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The celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the EUR Association was held,  on Tuesday September 27, 2022, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm in the Conference Room M5, M building, at the Vienna International Center in Vienna (Austria).

During this event, the EUR President the EUR Association presented the main achievements and objectives of the EUR Association.

Speeches were given by high-ranking managers and representatives of EUR Association Members that highlighted the importance of developing and regularly updating common specifications and harmonized requirements for new Designs of Nuclear Power Plants.

According to the EUR Association statutes, the EUR Association aims to be the voice of European nuclear Utilities influencing the design of future Nuclear Power Plants to be built in Europe and worldwide.

The conflict in Ukraine is of concern to the EUR Association.

In consistency with the decisions and actions taken by authorities and regulators, the EUR Association has decided to suspend the membership of the state-owned company Rosernergoatom Joint-Stock Company until further notice.

Since its establishment in 1991, the European Utility Requirements (EUR) Association has gathered various European utilities with the goal of harmonising requirements for new mid-and large-size Light Water Reactor designs across Europe and worldwide. The EUR Association has issued several Revisions of a report entitled “the EUR Document”. It consists of a comprehensive set of requirements covering the whole Nuclear Power Plant and encompasses safety, performance and competitiveness aspects.

To deal with the increasing interest from its members and stakeholders on SMR technology, the EUR Association has developed “EUR Key Positions” that are currently focused on Small Modular Light Water Reactors (SMLWR) and currently limited to the case of water cooled and land-based SMR.

These EUR Key Positions should be taken into account for designing SMLWRs to be built in Europe, complementary with the EUR Document Revision E issued in December 2016. They are intended to support interactions with the EUR members’ stakeholders. They will be considered in the frame of the next revision of the EUR Document which will be applicable to SMLWRs.

The EUR Key Positions are included in Volume 1 of EUR Document, as Chapter 1.5.

Volume 1 is downloadable without charge on EUR website   under the toolbar “EUR Document”.

The EU HPR1000 design by China General Nuclear Group (CGN) has successfully passed all the steps of the compliance analysis vs. the European Utility Requirements (EUR) Document Revision E. Manuel Carrasco, chairperson of the EUR Steering Committee, delivered the certificate on October 20, 2020.

The EU HPR1000 EUR assessment project was launched in August 2017 and involved the designer (CGN) and EUR Utilities (CEZ, EDF, FORTUM, ENERGOATOM, GEN energija, NRG, PAKS II, Preussen Elektra, ROSENERGOATOM, and TRACTEBEL). The EU HPR1000 design has been evaluated based on the Design Description Document, and dozens of additional design documents provided by CGN. More than 10 000 pages of demonstration and justification documents have been submitted by the designer and analysed by the EUR assessment project team during the assessment process. A total of 864 question sheets were issued and answered during the assessment. The result of the compliance analysis concerning the 5037 requirements structured in 20 chapters in the Volume 2 of the EUR Document indicated a good level of compliance for the EU HPR1000 design. Less than 1% of the EUR requirements has been identified as not compliant.

The description of the EU HPR1000 design and the main findings of the assessment were validated by the EUR Steering Committee during the 117^th EUR Steering Committee meeting. EUR Volume 3K subset dedicated to EU HPR1000 design has been published and added to the Volume 3 of the EUR Document, which is the collection of all the previous designs assessed by the EUR Organisation.

On June 13, 2019 the European Utility Requirements (EUR) Organisation and Atomenergoproekt (AEP) celebrated the finalisation of the VVER TOI assessment project. The assessment started on February 2016, before the finalisation of the EUR revision E, and involved the designer (AEP), the designer partners (Gidropress and Kurchatov Institute) and involved EUR Utilities (EDF, Rosenergoatom, CEZ, Paks II and Gen energija).
The VVER TOI assessment has been based on the safety report, the detailed PSA reports and dozens of additional design documents provided by AEP, and the designer partners (Gidropress, KI and TVEL). More than 7000 pages of demonstration and justification documents have been supplied by the designer and analysed by the EUR project team during the assessment process. The analysis of the compliance concerning 4714 requirements structured in 20 chapters indicated a good results for the VVER TOI. Less than 2 % of the EUR requirement has been identified as not compliant.
The description of the VVER TOI design and the main findings of the assessment have been validated by the EUR Steering Committee which delivered a certificate to the designer and designer partners during a ceremony organised on 13 June at Saint Petersburg. VVER TOI subset will be published by the end of the year and added to Volume 3 of the EUR Document which is the collection of all the previous design assessments by the EUR Organisation.