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Published on 19 February 2026
​SANE
Safety Assessment of Non-Electric Uses 
of Nuclear Energy


Type de projet / guichet : HORIZON-EURATOM - également financé par le gouvernement Suisse

Date début - date finSeptembre 2024 – Août 2027

PartenairesVTT (coordinateur) ; NRG-Palas ; SCK CEN ; Ineris ; EAG ; PSI ; KIT ; CVR ; Energorisk ; SSTC NRS CEA – Liten , CEA - Iresne.

Site web The SANE project (Safety Assessment of Non-Electric Uses of Nuclear Energy)


SANE project, co-funded by the EU Euratom program and the Swiss federal government, aims at assessing the safety of non-electric uses of nuclear energy. Among the three main topics addressed by the project (use-cases assessment, safety assessment of the coupling of an SMR with a district heating network, and risk communication improvement), I-Tésé contributions focuses on assessing a specific use-case: e-fuel production from nuclear energy. More specifically, I-Tésé provides estimates of prospective e-methanol and e-kerosene demand levels in the EU by 2030 and 2050. Additionally, potential types and locations of suitable nuclear reactors are identified, in collaboration with CEA Liten. This project is an additional step towards system-wide understanding of e-fuels value chains, following the Sysiphe study (bottom-up prospective hydrogen demand in Europe), the Kermit study (multi-criteria comparison of e-kerosene production pathways) and the mapping of current and future point-source CO2 emitters in the EU.