LD-SAFE is making great efforts in disseminating its objectives and achievements. Next step:

• ICEM 2023 – D&D Research & Development Activities in Stuttgart (Germany) – October 6, 2023 (at 11:10am).

Meet us at ICEM 2023 to know more about the promising implementation of the laser cutting technology in nuclear decommissioning.

The final version of the Generic Safety Assessment is now available in the LD-SAFE website. It includes the recommendations from the independent review performed by the IRSN. The deliverable aims to reduce the licensing effort and facilitate the safety case development for all future end users of the promising laser cutting technology. An important step is reached in the LD-SAFE project!

The 21st of June, 2023, a LD-SAFE project workshop was organized in Paris by Onet Technologies, bringing together all project stakeholders. The members of the European Consortium presented the results achieved by LD-SAFE over the last three years, as well as the upcoming activities:

➡️ To experts, to obtain their feedback on the project technical progress;

➡️ To potential future users of laser cutting technology for nuclear reactors decommissioning, for ensuring LD-SAFE is aligned with their expectations.

Thanks to all participants for their fruitful technical discussions!

The third LD-SAFE press release is now available, which contains the project progress. Feel free to download it here: LD-SAFE – 3rd Press release, June 2023.

LD-SAFE will be presented the 16th of May 2023 in the International Conference on Nuclear Decommissioning: Addressing the Past and Ensuring the Future, organized by the IAEA, during a special session dedicated to the EURATOM Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme.

For information of the event, visit: www.iaea.org/events/decom2023

LD-SAFE project was presented by P. Daguin (Onet Technologies), I. Doyen (CEA), and P. François (IRSN) the 1^st of March in the Waste Management 2023 Conference (Phoenix). Thank you very much to those present, including our EC Project Officer, for their participation. If you did not attend the conference, check for LD-SAFE in upcoming events.

The paper «European collaborative efforts to achieve effective, safe, and cost-controlled dismantling of nuclear facilities» is now available:

https://www.epj-n.org/articles/epjn/abs/2023/01/epjn220017/epjn220017.html

It summarizes five European projects, their outcomes and potential impact:

–       LD-SAFE https://ldsafe.eu/
–       INNO4GRAPH https://www.inno4graph.eu/
–       PLEIADES https://lnkd.in/dwQfVQSh
–       CLEANDEM https://lnkd.in/eP2rqNed
–       INSIDER https://insider-h2020.eu/

LD-SAFE project was presented by P. Daguin (Onet Technologies) and I. Doyen (CEA) the 1st of December in the NEA Workshop on Innovative Techniques and Technologies to Support Characterisation and Decommissioning of Complex and Legacy Sites.

Thanks to all the participants. If you did not attend the NEA Workshop, check for LD-SAFE in upcoming events.

LD-Safe project will be presented the 1^st of December in the NEA Workshop on Innovative Techniques and Technologies to Support Characterisation and Decommissioning of Complex and Legacy Sites.

The LD-SAFE second General Assembly Meeting took place on October 5^th, 2022, at Tecnatom premises. We were delighted to meet in person and have worthwhile presentations and discussions. As the Group of Experts indicated, “while lasers are now widely used in industry, nuclear facilities have some additional risks that require to be understood before the technology can be deployed. The LD-SAFE project is making great progress in quantifying these issues and determining the operating parameters for its safe use, which should allow the early widespread adoption of the technology”.