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The EU HPR1000 design by China General Nuclear Group (CGN) has successfully passed all the steps of the compliance analysis vs. the European Utility Requirements (EUR) Document Revision E. Manuel Carrasco, chairperson of the EUR Steering Committee, delivered the certificate on October 20, 2020.

The EU HPR1000 EUR assessment project was launched in August 2017 and involved the designer (CGN) and EUR Utilities (CEZ, EDF, FORTUM, ENERGOATOM, GEN energija, NRG, PAKS II, Preussen Elektra, ROSENERGOATOM, and TRACTEBEL). The EU HPR1000 design has been evaluated based on the Design Description Document, and dozens of additional design documents provided by CGN. More than 10 000 pages of demonstration and justification documents have been submitted by the designer and analysed by the EUR assessment project team during the assessment process. A total of 864 question sheets were issued and answered during the assessment. The result of the compliance analysis concerning the 5037 requirements structured in 20 chapters in the Volume 2 of the EUR Document indicated a good level of compliance for the EU HPR1000 design. Less than 1% of the EUR requirements has been identified as not compliant.

The description of the EU HPR1000 design and the main findings of the assessment were validated by the EUR Steering Committee during the 117^th EUR Steering Committee meeting. EUR Volume 3K subset dedicated to EU HPR1000 design has been published and added to the Volume 3 of the EUR Document, which is the collection of all the previous designs assessed by the EUR Organisation.

On June 13, 2019 the European Utility Requirements (EUR) Organisation and Atomenergoproekt (AEP) celebrated the finalisation of the VVER TOI assessment project. The assessment started on February 2016, before the finalisation of the EUR revision E, and involved the designer (AEP), the designer partners (Gidropress and Kurchatov Institute) and involved EUR Utilities (EDF, Rosenergoatom, CEZ, Paks II and Gen energija).
The VVER TOI assessment has been based on the safety report, the detailed PSA reports and dozens of additional design documents provided by AEP, and the designer partners (Gidropress, KI and TVEL). More than 7000 pages of demonstration and justification documents have been supplied by the designer and analysed by the EUR project team during the assessment process. The analysis of the compliance concerning 4714 requirements structured in 20 chapters indicated a good results for the VVER TOI. Less than 2 % of the EUR requirement has been identified as not compliant.
The description of the VVER TOI design and the main findings of the assessment have been validated by the EUR Steering Committee which delivered a certificate to the designer and designer partners during a ceremony organised on 13 June at Saint Petersburg. VVER TOI subset will be published by the end of the year and added to Volume 3 of the EUR Document which is the collection of all the previous design assessments by the EUR Organisation.

During their 112th meeting, the members of EUR Steering Committee proceeded to the election of the new EUR Organisation Chairperson: the position was open for applications since Guillaume JACQUART’s resignation. Guillaume JACQUART has occupied the EUR Organisation Chairperson position since October 2013. During his mandate, the EUR organisation issued Revision E of the EUR Document, assessed the EU APR and VVER TOI designs versus Volume 2 of the EUR Rev D and defined the EUR Roadmap 2019 – 2021.

Manuel CARRASCO, EDF/DIPNN-DT, was elected as the new EUR Organisation Chairperson.

He is committed to continue the on-going EUR activities, especially the assessment of the CGN’s EU-HPR1000 design and the preparation of the EUR Position Paper about SMRs, and to keep strong interactions with important stakeholders in Europe and worldwide.
Moreover, he will strongly support the action plan derived from the EUR Roadmap 2019 – 2021.