Considering the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, the European Council declared that the safety of all EU nuclear plants should be reviewed, on the basis of a comprehensive and transparent risk assessment (“stress tests”). A stress test is defined as a targeted reassessment of the safety margins of nuclear power plants in the light of the events which occurred at Fukushima: extreme natural events challenging the plant safety functions and leading to a severe accident. As a part of this action, NEK prepared in August 2011 the Special Safety Review Interim Report. The University of Ljubljana (Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering was the contractor and Faculty of Electrical Engineering was the subcontractor) was engaged for the independent evaluation of the document Evaluation of Seismic and Flooding Margins, which represents the background of a part of the Special Safety Review Interim Report. The team was led by P.Fajfar. The team has critically reviewed the NEK report and requested substantial modifications of the original report, especially related to the treatment of seismic risk. After extensive discussions between the evaluators and authors of the original report and after an iteration procedure, the final report was prepared by NEK, which was approved by the evaluators. The work performed by P.Fajfar and his colleagues contributes to the seismic safety of the NPP Krško.
F.17 Transfer of existing technologies, know-how, methods and procedures into practice
COBISS.SI-ID: 5620577Seismic analysis of bridge “Žadovinek” was performed, taking into account all special requirements of the site (PGA = 0.5g, and limitations related to the protection against overflow of the river) that were strongly related to the nearby nuclear power plant.
F.17 Transfer of existing technologies, know-how, methods and procedures into practice
COBISS.SI-ID: 5379681R. Žarnić is the coordinator of the European FP7 project EU-CHIC. The aim of the EU CHIC project is to set-up a system of the »Cultural Heritage Identity Card« (CHIC), which will introduce a systematic collection and storage of data on immovable heritage objects across Euroepan and neighbouring countries. The main objective is to develop and test guidelines, needed for efficient compilation of data, pertinent to each monument under observation. The system of CHIC will support sustainable maintenance, preventive conservation and rehabilitation of historic sites and monuments. It will assist application of newly developed strategies, which are designed to evaluate efficiency and user-friendliness of the approach used for screening time-varying alteration of heritage buildings, caused by human interventions and environmental impacts. Development of the project will be achieved through activities of four core work packages, that will be supported by the coordinative and dissemination work packages. One of the main tasks is development of guidelines for the future development of methods and tools for collection and storing of data, required for evaluation of time-varying changes of heritage assets, where the non-destructive methods are having the most important role. The consortium consists of 12 partners from 11 countries, which are Slovenia, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Poland and Spain.
D.01 Chairing over/coordinating (international and national) projects
COBISS.SI-ID: 5622369