Table 2.
Funding resources in international comparison.
| Budget over full period or annually |
Access mechanisms | Topics | |
| OFFERR | 9 Mio€ (4 years) | Competitive proposal process, 2 cut-off dates/year Funding of experimental activities and visits of the user teams, beneficiaries are the organizations offering access to the infrastructures and the users of the infrastructures |
more than 230 facilities Light water reactor sustainability, Advanced fission reactor concept, Waste and decommissioning, Nuclear science applications, Advanced nuclear fuels, Innovation in nuclear instrumentation, Radioprotection and nuclear medicine |
| OASIS | 750 k€ (∼6 years) | Competitive proposal process, 1–2 calls/year Funding of users’ travel and subsistence costs only Available to academia and SME's |
11 facilities Basic research in the nuclear field as nuclear data acquisition (e.g. neutron cross section measurements, accurate measurements of radioactivity), nuclear materials (e.g. nuclear fuels, waste forms, radioisotopes for medicine), behaviour of reactor's structural components, non-power applications (e.g. nuclear medicine, space) |
| NNUF (UK) | ∼100 Mio £ (10 years) Including ∼7.5 Mio £ to fund researchers to use NNUF facilities |
Competitive proposal process, quarterly calls Funding of facility and equipment costs, sample transport; can also fund users’ travel and subsistence costs |
30 facilities R&D activities on the operation and future development of nuclear plant in the UK, and the training of the next generation of nuclear scientists in core skills and the use of modern equipment |
| NSUF (US) | ∼35 Mio $ annually (data for 2024/25) | Competitive proposal processes, quarterly calls for RTEs*, yearly call for CINR# No cost to user but also no travel funding to users Available to industry, academia and national labs for non-proprietary R&D |
21 institutions R&D activities on irradiation effects in nuclear fuels and materials Education and training: Workshops and hands-on skill development |
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