PCTran-Cloud: an Accident Simulator for Nuclear Power Plants Based on Cloud Technology

In the current environment where COVID-19 is serious, the space, place and resources required for teaching nuclear power plants are restricted to a great extent. To solve such problems and improve the utilization of education resources, this study improved an accident simulator for nuclear power plants based on the concept of cloud technology. We build the Browser / Server architecture so that the platform has successfully implemented multiterminal, multiplatform and multiuser simultaneous applications. Through the simulation results of the Small Break Loss of Coolant Accident (SBLOCA) and the test results of platform performance by PCTran-Cloud, the correctness of PCTran-Cloud in the accident simulation function and results were verified. In general, PCTran-Cloud has the characteristics of high scalability, high concurrency and high security. The platform can provide an environment for the training and education of nuclear power professionals. © 2022 IEEE.

Alexander Rubtsov at the Russian Museum: A Long Journey Home

Traditionally friendly Russian-Tunisian relations have a long history. They are successfully developing in various fields, filled with new content but invariably maintaining positive dynamics. A trusting political dialogue is combined with fairly robust trade and economic cooperation, including in such science-intensive industries as nuclear energy and space exploration. Ties are being strengthened in education and health care, including in the fight against the novel coronavirus infection. Russian language and culture maintain strong positions in Tunisia. Against this backdrop, there is growing interest in common historical heritage. Many details of the formation of the first Russian diaspora in Tunisia, associated with the exodus from Crimea, the centennial of which was celebrated in 2020, are already well known. Back then, at the end of the Russian Civil War, 33 ships of the Black Sea squadron with our sailors and their families arrived in the Tunisian port of Bizerte from Crimea.

Development of Safety Culture in the Republic of Belarus in 2020–2021

: Safety culture is a very important tool to improve safety at nuclear energy facilities. It develops abilities of personnel to efficiently mitigate potential threats to nuclear and radioactive material, promoting correct attitude and behavior, as a consequence of which the personnel gain more stringent and cautious approach to their duties in the field of physical safety. In the companies with high culture of physical nuclear safety, the chance of a malicious act by personnel is hardly probable owing to persuasion that nuclear safety is important as well as owing to the factor of vigilance and professional compliance with the practices of physical nuclear safety. This article discusses the issue of development of safety culture in the Republic of Belarus in 2020–2021. This time period coincided, on one hand, with the commissioning of the first nuclear power unit in Ostrovets and, on the other hand, with the spread of COVID-19. The role of safety culture has increased as mentioned in some regulations approved in 2020. The role, the functions, and the requirements for safety culture have been formulated not only for the Belarussian NPP but also for the companies operating sources of ionizing irradiation. The current times are dealing with the spread of COVID-19. Introduction of sanitary norms added corrections to arrangement of measures required for formation and improvement of safety culture. This article presents the approach and summarizes the measures developed by Joint Institute for Power and Nuclear Research—Sosny, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, aiming at a higher level of safety culture. © 2022, Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.

New paradigms in sustainable energy systems with hydrogen

Climate change, disturbance of the energy security resulting from increasing fuel prices due to conflicts, and disruptions to production and supply chains caused by COVID-19 have highlighted the need for the world to be prepared for future challenges. The environmental and climate change impacts of heavy use of fossil fuels for energy production have yielded numerous crucial challenges and will even cause increasingly more severe effects in the years to come. This is particularly important, as the utilization of fossil fuels is the largest contributor to the increasing emissions of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which is leading to climate change and other problems. As a result, there is an emerging need to transition towards low or zero-emission energy systems where renewables and nuclear energy can play a critical role in the new energy equation and help establish the source ecosystem for hydrogen. Hydrogen, being the most abundant, clean, and energy-intensive element in nature, is an attractive alternative to fossil fuels. Furthermore, when produced using renewable energy sources, it is easier to reduce and control upstream emissions to produce or store hydrogen than fossil fuels. This study presents a framework for developing hydrogen technologies, building the necessary infrastructure, and selecting appropriate energy sources to help transition to a more sustainable and resilient energy system. There are also life cycle assessment studies conducted for various energy production technologies, including hydrogen, and their results are comparatively evaluated to confirm renewables and nuclear energy options would be the most suitable sources for hydrogen production. The global warming potential values of electricity production using nuclear and renewable energy are found to be 0.027 and 0.043 kg CO 2 eq./kWh. Comparatively, the global warming potential for natural gas, oil and coal are found to be 0.2, 0.3 and 0.36 kg CO 2 eq./kWh, respectively. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Energy Conversion & Management is the property of Pergamon Press - An Imprint of Elsevier Science and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)

CULTIVATION OF FUTURE LEADERS: A CASE STUDY FROM THE CHINA-IAEA NUCLEAR ENERGY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL

The development of nuclear energy, technology and applications programmes s creates a continuous need for a global workforce of highly qualified professionals with appropriate nuclear technical and managerial competence. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) provides the Nuclear Energy Management (NEM) School programme to help the Member States build and train future leaders in managing the national peaceful applications of nuclear science and technology. As the country with the fastest growth of nuclear energy in the world, China has a complete nuclear industrial chain, and the development of nuclear energy enjoys incomparable advantages. China cooperates with IAEA and holds the China-IAEA NEM School to share its experience and contribute its wisdom to the global nuclear energy development, and to personnel training of emerging nuclear energy countries. This paper reports a case study from the China-IAEA NEM School which investigates the joint cultivation and training mode for young professionals who show managerial potentiality and inherent ability for future leadership positions in the field of nuclear energy and technology in IAEA's Member States that plan to develop or are in the process of embarking upon a nuclear power programme. This study explores the school's training system which is reflected in different aspects, i.e. training format, curriculum, and lecturers. A questionnaire survey is also conducted to analyze trainees' evaluation of the school. The research findings are discussed in light of future developments and implications on young future leaders' cultivation and training in the nuclear field in post COVID era. Copyright © 2022 by ASME.

Dynamic relationships among green bonds, CO2 emissions, and oil prices

Green bonds play a pivotal role in the financing of sustainable infrastructure systems. Likewise, CO2 emissions and oil prices can cause an impact on the green bonds market. In order to better understand this issue, this study analyzes the relationship among green bonds, CO2 futures' prices, and oil prices using a daily data set that includes 2,206 observations corresponding to daily information from 1 January 2014 to 15 June 2022. The Granger Causality Test and the Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC-Garch) Model were employed to conduct this analysis. Furthermore, a sensitivity analysis was performed to identify crisis periods concerning the sample period and provide an analysis of DCC-Garch results during extreme market conditions like the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Granger Causality Test results present a unidirectional causality running from the Green Bond Index to the oil price returns. Also, there is a unidirectional causality running from the Green Bond Index to the CO2 futures' returns. Additionally, a unidirectional causality runs from the oil price returns to the CO2 futures' returns. The results for the DCC-Garch indicate a positive dynamic correlation between the Brent oil price return and the CO2 futures' returns. Finally, the Green Bond Index shows a negative dynamic correlation to the oil return and the CO2 futures' returns presenting a strong correlation in uncertainty periods.

Preface: 19th International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems (ICENES 2019)

This is an exclusively prepared special issue containing selected papers from well-established events, namely, International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems (ICENES) and some invited papers to enrich and broaden the novelty of nuclear energy technologies and its applications. The 19th International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems (ICENES 2019) is one of the international conference on scientific, engineering, education and other technical aspects of innovative nuclear reactor design, advanced nuclear technology, energy related technology and its applications.The conference was held in Holiday Inn, Bali, Indonesia (6-9 October 2019), organized by the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) and in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The participants come from several 14 countries and from many institutions from universities, governments, companies, society and some other organizations that shared their ideas and research results on emerging nuclear energy technologies and applications, which covered by keynote speakers, invited and contributed oral talks and poster presentations. Some selected presented paper in the conference have been elected as selected papers after reviewing process to be submitted to the Institute of Physics (IoP), Journal of Physics: Conference Series.Nuclear energy recently is recognized as secure, sustain and green energy source as an ultimate energy resource to secure the future of the mankind and its civilization. Hence, considerable research activities and international collaboration are continuing on innovative nuclear energy systems, reactor physics, radiations and its application, nuclear computational system, including fusion energy technology, fusion-fission hybrids systems, GEN-IV reactors technology, small and modular reactor (MSR) technology, space nuclear reactors, and power systems and accelerator-driven systems technologies. Some related topics are also covered related to nuclear power production;nuclear hydrogen production;hydrogen energy, energy efficiency, and management;solar energy;wind energy;hydrogen production and storage;renewable energy;fuel cells;bio-energy, etc.Finally, on behalf of the organizer and advisory board, we would like to express my sincere appreciation and gratitude to all of authors during the conference and publication processes for their valuable contributions and to the members of the committee, reviewers, and advisors for their excellent works in preparing and finalizing this document. We apologize for any inconveniences for this long process of publication due to our conditions and some restrictions as well as some difficulties during COVID19 pandemicList of Organizer, Editorial Board are available in this Pdf.

RESILIENCE AND ORGANIZATIONAL LIMITS IN THE HIGH-RISK NUCLEAR INDUSTRY CONTEXT

The ongoing COVID-19 crisis renewed scholarly interest in organizational resilience. To ensure resilience, organizations must develop the ability to proactively prepare for ambiguous and unexpected situations (Morel et al., 2008). From this perspective, resilience may be considered as a mindful process leading to reliability (Linnenluecke, 2017) where mindfulness allows to collectively manage stability/vividness tension and extend individual limits of attention (Weick & Sutcliffe, 2006, 2007). A high level of environmental uncertainty increases the risk and may lead to violations of organizational limits (Farjoun & Starbuck, 2007). In addition to the exogenous environmental limits, organizations are affected by the endogenous limits of cognition and managerial control, and also by the non-cognitive factors such as habitus. However, many questions remain. Following a recent call for further research on organizing for resilience (Linnenluecke, 2017, p. 26), the aims of our paper is to explore how the organizational limits restraint the development of mindfulness (foresight and cognition) and how organizations deal with those limits to develop the resilience? We conducted a qualitative case study within a major European nuclear power plant. We wanted to better understand how in a highly controlled and regulated industry managers increase resilience by pushing of organizational limits. Our analysis shows that implemented practices constrained endogenous organizational limits instead of helping to extend them. Our paper highlights the role of mindfulness and attention in building resilience and tensions between managed and regulated safety. The obligation of result (e.g., reliable practice) is in tension with the obligation of means (e.g., procedure to follow). Moreover, our case study illustrates negative effect of organizational context on the extension of the organizational limits. In addition, we enrich the notion of endogenous limits by adding the non-cognitive dimension of habitus of the nuclear energy industry. We believe that a better understanding of organizational limits to develop resilience may offer managers the opportunity to better consider the role of organizational context and to adapt training programs. © ESREL 2021. Published by Research Publishing, Singapore.

Electricity Production and Consumption Perspectives in the Opinion of the Youth of South-Eastern Poland

In Poland, in 2021, an increase in demand for electricity was recorded, and hard coal and lignite power plants still had a dominant share in its production. Another source of electricity was renewable energy sources (RES), mainly wind farms. Young people in Poland are aware that electricity is not only its production, but also consumption in households. Therefore, it is also essential to properly educate young people, aiming at a cost-effective, sustainable lifestyle, in relation to electricity consumption. The article presents the current state of the electricity generation sector in Poland along with the proposed changes in this respect, in particular in terms of the development prospects for the use of renewable energy sources and the influence of government administration on the production and consumption of electricity. The aim of this research was to broaden the knowledge of young people’s opinions on energy production and consumption. The research results can be used to create long-term directions of energy policy and to build a social attitude of sustainable energy consumption in Poland. The research was non-probabilistic, based on questionnaires, using the CAWI (Computer Assisted Web Interview) technique. The questionnaire was conducted in 2021, and the analysis was made on the basis of 741 correctly completed research questionnaires. The results of the research confirmed the research hypotheses—that the surveyed youth see the need to reduce consumption as a way to counteract climate change and excessive energy consumption. They also expect government support in the energy transformation in Poland, based on a diversified scenario, using both renewable energy sources (RES) and nuclear energy.

A State-of-the-Art Review of Radioactive Decontamination Technologies: Facing the Upcoming Wave of Decommissioning and Dismantling of Nuclear Facilities

The average share of nuclear energy in electricity production is expected to increase under the background of the global pursuit towards carbon neutrality. Conjugating with its rapid development, the wave of decommissioning and dismantling (D&D) of nuclear facilities is coming. The surface decontamination is a prerequisite to D&D, which will make it easier and reduce the volume of radioactive wastes. However, there are no comprehensive studies on the decontamination methods, which is not helpful for the sustainable development of nuclear energy and environment protection. Therefore, in this work, the current status and future trends of global energy and nuclear energy are first analyzed. Then, various decontamination approaches are comparatively studied, including cleaning mechanisms, application subjects, and intrinsic advantages and disadvantages. Finally, the criteria and factors for selecting a decontamination process, the challenges, and future studies are directed. Among the mechanical methods, laser-based cleaning is high-speed, having automation ability, and thus is promising, although it creates a dust and airborne contaminant hazard. In further studies, factors such as selecting a proper laser facility, optimizing operating parameters, and designing a high-efficiency dust collection system could be studied. Regarding the chemical method, chemical gels are good for decontaminating complex shapes and vertical and overhead surfaces. In addition, they can enhance other decon agents’ efficiency by improving contact time. However, the formulation of colloidal gels is complex and no gel type is useful for all contaminants. Therefore, novel and versatile gels need be developed to enlarge their application field. Combining various decontamination methods will often have better results and thus a reasonable and effective combination of these decontamination methods has become the main direction.

Most Dangerous Place: Investigating Pakistan's Irregular Warfare Campaign in Kashmir Under the Nuclear Shadow

For more than thirty years, Pakistan has conducted an irregular warfare campaign in Kashmir to wrest control of the disputed region from India while also leveraging its nuclear weapons capability. This approach has frustrated a decisive Indian response, precipitated multiple crises, and risked nuclear exchange. This thesis analyzes Pakistans irregular warfare-nuclear deterrence strategy by evaluating Kashmir crises nested within three distinct periods of Pakistans nuclear capability: de facto, overt, and advanced technology. The results suggest Pakistan has successfully employed irregular warfare under the nuclear umbrella within Kashmir, but has also incurred great cost by risking nuclear exchange, alienating the international community, and destabilizing itself through empowerment of violent jihadist groups. As one looks forward to the implications of Great Power Competition upon the Indian subcontinent, the dynamics have dramatically shifted as the U.S. and China compete for influence. While the U.S. moves closer to India, and China to Pakistan, potential polarization of the Kashmir problem presents additional nuclear escalation risks. However, emerging opportunities to leverage the global powers common interest in preventing terrorism could prove a catalyst for South Asian stabilization. Pakistans Kashmir strategy can also provide insights regarding how current or future nuclear-armed regional powers may choose to employ irregular warfare to optimize their influence.

Energy and Water Development: FY2021 Appropriations

The Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies appropriations bill provides funding for civil works projects of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE);the Department of the Interiors Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) and Central Utah Project (CUP);the Department of Energy (DOE);the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC);the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC);and several other independent agencies. DOE typically accounts for about 80% of the bills funding.

Sustainable Building Policies in Central Europe: Insights and Future Perspectives

Achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 is one of the European Union’s key priorities. Yet, the attitude of numerous politicians, of the professional community, and of society in general towards the threat posed by climate change is ambivalent. Arguments are frequently heard about the transition to a low-carbon economy that will be very costly, with increased unemployment, and that in reality climate change may not even be that severe. Added to this, there are human rights and freedoms, and in the case of architects and designers, the right to freedom of creation, to choice of materials, etc. The present article seeks to show that the issue of sustainable architecture and construction is not a whim, but an absolute necessity, and that true freedom lies in recognizing this fact and adapting our actions accordingly. However, even if we have the good intentions to adapt the needed actions, there is still the question of how to react in the right way, without causing myriad unwanted side-effects or being completely counterproductive. As there is not yet any comprehensive account of the history of energy-efficient and sustainable building and architecture, this paper has attempted to give a brief overview of developments in this field from a Central European perspective. Furthermore, the aim was to point out some conceptual mistakes that have been made in the past and that should be avoided.

Public Attitude towards Nuclear and Renewable Energy as a Factor of Their Development in a Circular Economy Frame: Two Case Studies

Nowadays, most countries of the world are implementing the transition to the low-carbon economy which implies the need to carry out a full-scale eco-modernization of the energy sector. Green energy may be identified as one of the core concerns of energy sector modernization as it allows a considerable decrease in emissions of harmful substances into the atmosphere. Therefore, nuclear and renewable energy may become key areas of global energy development in the near future, which is also in agreement with circular economy concepts. However, public opinion (and other controversial visions/aspects) is one of the barriers to their development. The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between attitudes towards nuclear and renewable energy in two countries: a EU country (Italy) and a non-EU country (Russia), considering the level of their development. The authors conducted a survey among residents regarding their attitude towards nuclear and renewable energy, as well as their attitude to the present energy policy. The cluster analysis technique was used to analyze the results. The obtained results confirmed the dependence between the level of development of nuclear and renewable energy and the public attitude towards it. The national energy policy also might influence public opinion on the development of nuclear or renewable energy. The authors identified public attitude as one of the key factors in the development of energy and the achievement of environmental and social sustainability.

Benefit and risk evaluation of inland nuclear generation investment in Kazakhstan combined with an analytical MGT method

Purpose: In the process of building the “Belt and Road” and “Bright Road” community of interests between China and Kazakhstan, this paper proposes the construction of an inland nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan. Considering the uncertainty of investment in nuclear power generation, the authors propose the MGT (Monte-Carlo and Gaussian Radial Basis with Tensor factorization) utility evaluation model to evaluate the risk of investment in nuclear power in Kazakhstan and provide a relevant reference for decision making on inland nuclear investment in Kazakhstan. Design/methodology/approach: Based on real options portfolio combined with a weighted utility function, this study takes into account the uncertainties associated with nuclear power investments through a minimum variance Monte Carlo approach, proposes a noise-enhancing process combined with geometric Brownian motion in solving complex conditions, and incorporates a measure of investment flexibility and strategic value in the investment, and then uses a deep noise reduction encoder to learn the initial values for potential features of cost and investment effectiveness. A Gaussian radial basis function used to construct a weighted utility function for each uncertainty, generate a minimization of the objective function for the tensor decomposition, and then optimize the objective loss function for the tensor decomposition, find the corresponding weights, and perform noise reduction to generalize the nonlinear problem to evaluate the effectiveness of nuclear power investment. Finally, the two dimensions of cost and risk (estimation of investment value and measurement of investment risk) are applied and simulated through actual data in Kazakhstan. Findings: The authors assess the core indicators of Kazakhstan's nuclear power plants throughout their construction and operating cycles, based on data relating to a cluster of nuclear power plants of 10 different technologies. The authors compared it with several popular methods for evaluating the benefits of nuclear power generation and conducted subsequent sensitivity analyses of key indicators. Experimental results on the dataset show that the MGT method outperforms the other four methods and that changes in nuclear investment returns are more sensitive to changes in costs while operating cash flows from nuclear power are certainly an effective way to drive investment reform in inland nuclear power generation in Kazakhstan at current levels of investment costs. Research limitations/implications: Future research could consider exploring other excellent methods to improve the accuracy of the investment prediction further using sparseness and noise interference. Also consider collecting some expert advice and providing more appropriate specific suggestions, which will facilitate the application in practice. Practical implications: The Novel Coronavirus epidemic has plunged the global economy into a deep recession, the tension between China and the US has made the energy cooperation road unusually tortuous, Kazakhstan in Central Asia has natural geographical and resource advantages, so China–Kazakhstan energy cooperation as a new era of opportunity, providing a strong guarantee for China's political and economic stability. The basic idea of building large-scale nuclear power plants in Balkhash and Aktau is put forward, considering the development strategy of building Kazakhstan into a regional international energy base. This work will be a good inspiration for the investment of nuclear generation. Originality/value: This study solves the problem of increasing noise by combining Monte Carlo simulation with geometric Brownian motion under complex conditions, adds the measure of investment flexibility and strategic value, constructs the utility function of noise reduction weight based on Gaussian radial basis function and extends the nonlinear problem to the evaluation of nuclear power investment benefit. © 2022, Emerald Publishing Limited.

Southeast Asia. Negotiating governance on non-traditional security in Southeast Asia and beyond By Mely Caballero-Anthony, New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. Pp. 319. Notes, Bibliography, Index

[...]a few years ago, NTS looked to be a rather mundane field of study, particularly in East Asia and Southeast Asia, where traditional security perspectives have overly dominated academic debates as a result of long-standing territorial disputes and a strict attachment to Westphalian norms of noninterference and respect for national sovereignty. Security governance processes are examined in detail in a number of NTS crises that have confronted the region, namely health (chap. 3), environmental security (chap. 4), migration (chap. 5), humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations (chap. 6), nuclear energy (chap. 7) and food security (chap. 8). [...]the book seems primarily to focus on less contentious NTS arenas while it would have been interesting to see whether security governance processes are also surfacing in areas such as terrorism and maritime security, which generally speaking are more sensitive to individual sovereignty.

THE FUTURE IS NOW BUT WHERE THE CEO'S ARE?

Global warming, pollution, overpopulation, pandemics, inequality, wars, oppression, media, energy crisis, inadequate consumption of mineral and water resources over the last 100 years are taking a toll and asking whether we have an answer to what the Earth will look like in the coming years, decades or next century. The world is at a crossroads, what we are contemporaries is that we are in the middle of the global pandemic COVID 19, global warming and energy crisis. Solutions are being sought and offered that would help overcome the current situation, heal current chalangesd and find opportunities that would push the world forward. The environment, the way of working, the demands of the market, the division of work, the approach to work are changing, it is expected that today's behavior will define a more certain future. Companies are expected to prepare, survive, change, respond to increasingly demanding markets, recognize the future, flirt with today and prepare for tomorrow. Companies are run by directors, owners, stakeholders, CEOs, and the question of their necessity, knowledge, expertise, skills required in response to given challenges is rightly raised. This paper aims to provide some of the answers to the questions asked.

Studies on the CO2 Capture by Coal Fly Ash Zeolites: Process Design and Simulation

At present, mitigating carbon emissions from energy production and industrial processes is more relevant than ever to limit climate change. The widespread implementation of carbon capture technologies requires the development of cost-effective and selective adsorbents with high CO2 capture capacity and low thermal recovery. Coal fly ash has been extensively studied as a raw material for the synthesis of low-cost zeolite-like adsorbents for CO2 capture. Laboratory tests for CO2 adsorption onto coal fly ash zeolites (CFAZ) reveal promising results, but detailed computational studies are required to clarify the applicability of these materials as CO2 adsorbents on a pilot and industrial scale. The present study provides results for the validation of a simulation model for the design of adsorption columns for CO2 capture on CFAZ based on the experimental equilibrium and dynamic adsorption on a laboratory scale. The simulations were performed using ProSim DAC dynamic adsorption software to study mass transfer and energy balance in the thermal swing adsorption mode and in the most widely operated adsorption unit configuration.

IFMIF-DONES as Paradigm of Institutional Funding in the Way towards Sustainable Energy

Although actions promoting sustainable energy production and consumption have been widely approached in the literature, the management of the big scientific projects devoted to these actions have not been considered as a matter of study from the perspective of sustainable development, but almost exclusively from the scientific or technical ones. Experiences all over the world are increasingly demonstrating that the impact of the project phase is more critical than expected. In this sense, the joint international research on clean and more efficient nuclear power, especially fusion, is currently focused on two large projects: ITER and IFMIF-DONES. Although ITER is step by step advancing, IFMIF-DONES still has a long way before it is actually implemented and its main target (the evaluation of the materials to build the future nuclear fusion reactors) is achieved. In this work, the different steps focused on IFMIF-DONES funding and management planning up to date are analysed and, departing from them, some key points on the future development of the project are proposed.