Simulation of the irradiation effects in reactor materials: The REVE project

REVE is a project for a virtual reactor designed to simulate the irradiatio n effects in materials, it includes the following 5 sub-projects: a demonst rator simulating the ageing of vessel steels under irradiation, the couplin g of interactive multi-scale codes, the development of N-order abinitio met hods, the effect of irradiation on phase diagrams and finally the applicati on to the case of stress corrosion cracking behaviour of irradiated Zr-Nb a lloy. The project is to last 6 years for an estimated cost of $20million.