Proposal for a Council Decision on the adoption of the 2012-2015 High Flux Reactor supplementary research programme to be implemented by the Joint Research Centre for the European Atomic Energy Community

The operation of the Community's High Flux Reactor (HFR) has been supported by a series of supplementary research programmes. On 25 May 2009, the Council adopted a three-year (2009-2011) supplementary research programme to be implemented by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) for the European Atomic Energy Community concerning the operation of the reactor located at the JRC’s Institute for Energy, Petten, The Netherlands.

The contribution for the 2009-2011 supplementary research programme came from three participating Member States, The Netherlands, France and Belgium with a total amount of €35 million in the three year period. This amount included the provisions for the annual contributions to the decommissioning fund of the reactor (it also included the contribution to the decommissioning fund for the year 2008, in which the operation of HFR was not covered by the preceding supplementary programme). The current supplementary research programme will expire on 31 December 2011.

The present communication concerns a new four-year programme for the HFR operation (2012-2015).

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