Ιανουάριος 2014

Sea vessels can suffer severe damages due to structural failures. An EU-funded project worked to develop an advanced method for finding defects and corrosion in safety-critical areas, without taking the vessel out of the water.

Large-scale nuclear test facilities unique in Europe joined in an initiative to open their doors to transnational access. Scientists were thus able to address the few remaining priority safety issues for nuclear power plant operation under unparalleled prototype conditions.

Prevention is of critical importance when it comes to the safety of nuclear reactor operation. While severe accidents are highly unlikely, they are the subject of intense research due to the particularly hazardous nature of radioactive material release into the environment.

A key objective of Europe's research and innovation policy is to take discoveries and breakthroughs from the lab and into the market place. A good example of this is the ECOPROT project, which aims to industrialise an innovative procedure for producing corrosion-protecting environmentally friendly coatings for aluminium and magnesium alloys, to be used in the aeronautics market.

Galley trolleys have been the weakest aviation security link, but a new high-tech lock is making them secure.