The two main objectives of the project are: *) Knowledge capitalisation : to integrate the huge amount of knowledge accumulated by EDF during those last twenty years on safety, summarised in the APE (Approche Par Etats, State-oriented Approach), methodology which is an approach based on the...

In the case of a large nuclear set (like the French set), nuclear production needs to be flexible to adjust to the predicted evolutions of the energy demmand. Consequently, the dominant position of nuclear in the national energy mix makes it responsible for the overall equilibrium of the...