1) Emission trading: Commission approved all national allocation plans (NAPs)
2) European Technology Platforms on Clean Power Generation
3) VGB-Research Project 266 "Life Assessment of Cr-steels III"
4) International Freiberg Conference on IGCC Technologies 2005
5) VGB-TW804 "Reliability Data for Nuclear Power Plant Components – Analysis for 2004"
On June 20, 2005 the European Commission approved the Greek NAP for CO2 emission allowances. Thus, all 25 allocation plans are approved for the first allocation period 2005 to 2007 and the Commission accepted the application of 6.57 billion emission allowances for the allocation period 2005 to 2007.
http://www.vgb.org/news_emissions_trading.html
The Technology Platform is a new instruments targeted to a better focus an the needs for the upcoming construction programm of new power plants in Europe. VGB and EURELECTRIC alongside EPSA and EUnited Turbines experts have been closely involved in the launch of a European Technology Platform to foster clean and efficient fossil fuel power generation.
http://www.vgb.org/europ_techn_platform.html
Investigations of the metal-physical processes in the creep-stressed 9-12% chromium steels started with projects 200 and 233 are continued within the project "Creep Characteristics and Service Life Evaluation of Modified 12%-Cr-steels" III until 2007.
http://www.vgb.org/research_project266.html
The presentations of the International Conference on IGCC Technologies are now available.
http://www.iec.tu-freiberg.de/conference/conference.html
The aim of the report is to provide reliability data that can be used in ongoing and future probabilistic safety analyses (PSA)conducted by the owners/operators of nuclear power plants. The Centralized Reliability and Events Database (ZEDB) gathers and analyzes operating experience gained at a large number of nuclear power plants. The ZEDB use the two-stage Bayesian models to calculate plant-specific and generic reliability data. The report includes the general descriptions of ZEDB database and methodology of analysis as well as the results of analysis. The data tables consist of three parts: a characterization of the component population, a list of the determined generic values, and a list of the determined plant-specific values. The publication of the English edition is under way.
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