Revision E of the EUR Document (Volumes 1, 2 & 4) was released in July 2017. A training course about EUR Rev E was set up by the EUR organization from October 10 to 12, 2017 in Budapest.

The agenda of the training course was composed of 13 courses. These courses, delivered by EUR representatives involved in Rev E as chapter leaders or experts, dealt with the most important EUR chapters of Volume 2: Safety, Performance, Grid, Design Basis (including External Hazards and Seismic), Materials, Components, Systems, Containment, I & C, Layout, PSA and EUR chapters of Volume 4 (Turbine Island). For each course, the main objective was to present the content of the chapter and the most important requirements introduced/updated in Revision E. 

Regarding the audience of the training course, 76 trainees and 14 lecturers or moderators participated. The large audience was composed of representatives from EUR utilities, NPP designers and the European Commission.

The EUR training course 2017 was considered as successful by the trainees due to the very detailed presentations on the EUR Document and the active participation of the audience.

104t^h meeting of the EUR Steering Committee was held in Moscow on December 14 and 15, 2016. It was hosted by RosEnergoAtom.

The Steering Committee globally approved the technical content of Revision E of EUR Volumes 1, 2 and 4. The wording of some requirements has still to be finalised then the final check of will be performed.

The Revision E of the EUR Document, which was officially launched in April 2014, is scheduled to be issued by the end of April 2017.

Revision E will be presented in several conferences in 2017:

- ICAPP (April 24 to 28 in Japan),

 - IAEA Conference “Safety Demonstration of Advanced Water Cooled Nuclear Power Plants” (June 6 to 9 in Vienna),

-  ICONE (July 2 to 6 in China).

In the framework of the assessment of the EU-APR design from KHNP versus EUR Revision D, the Steering Committee reviewed the results of the EU-APR assessment versus a second set of EUR chapters. A first set was reviewed during the 103th Steering Committee meeting held in September 2016.

The schedule of the on going assessment of the VVER TOI design from AtomEnergoProekt versus EUR Revision D was discussed..

100^th meeting of the EUR Steering Committee was held in Lyon on November 26-27, 2015.

For the occasion, all the formers EUR chairmen and secretaries were invited to a diner with all the current members representing the 15 Europeans countries of the EUR organisation.

Three of the previous EUR chairmen were present: Bernard Roche, François Hedin and Eric de Fraguier were welcomed by Guillaume Jacquart, the current chairman. A special thought was dedicated to Pierre Bacher, who founded the EUR organisation, 24 years ago, on November 20, 1991, chaired it during 6 years and sadly passed away last year.

Nowadays, the EUR organization gathers the major European companies involved in electricity generation from nuclear power in the European continent.

From the beginning, the target of the EUR organisation was to define common requirements with high expectations regarding, safety but also construction, operation and competitiveness of GEN III designs. Once the EUR requirements are defined, the next step was to evaluate GEN III designs proposed by designers for the European market against the EUR requirements. These requirements were also used by nuclear utilities, EUR members or not, as a basis to issue call for bids for new reactors.

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