ENEA is a public Italian organisation responsible of supporting government initiatives toward competitiveness and sustainable development in the domains of energy, environment and technology innovation. In the domain of nuclear applications, it has the responsibility of preserving the scientific and technological knowledge, contributing to the development of innovative systems and in the reduction of the risk associated with nuclear wastes. The actual staff is about 3,000 people, with about 40% scientists, distributed among nine ENEA Research Centres and five Research Laboratories – located all over Italy.

Role in the project

ENEA performs CFD and system simulations in order to develop and validate models and tools for passive safety systems. ENEA mainly participates to the WP2, WP3 and WP4 respectively dedicated to benchmark studies on separated and combined effect tests, SACO and CWC passive systems. ENEA has also made available experimental data of heat removal systems in natural circulation for the codes verification and validation.