This paper describes six projects, most of which are part of the research portfolio of the EERA JPNM, devoted to qualification, modelling and development of structural and fuel materials for advanced and innovative nuclear systems, with also two examples of projects addressing issues of cross-cutting interest through fusion and fission. | Advances on GenIV structural and fuel materials and cross-cutting activities between fission and fusion EPJ Nuclear Sci. Technol. 6 32 2020 Nuclear Sciences L. Malerba et al. published by EDP Sciences 2020 amp Technologies https epjn 2019021 Available online at https REVIEW ARTICLE Advances on GenIV structural and fuel materials and cross-cutting activities between fission and fusion Lorenzo Malerba1 Pietro Agostini2 Marjorie Bertolus3 Fabienne Delage3 Annelise Gallais-During3 Christian Grisolia4 Karine Liger5 and Pierre-François Giroux6 1 División de Materiales de Interés Energético CIEMAT Avda. Complutense 40 28040 Madrid Spain 2 Dipartimento Fusione e Sicurezza Nucleare ENEA-FSN Via Enrico Fermi 45 00044 Frascati Roma Italy 3 CEA DEN DEC Centre de Cadarache 13108 St-Paul-lez-Durance France 4 CEA IRFM 13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance France 5 CEA DEN DTN Centre de Cadarache 13108 St-Paul-lez-Durance France 6 DEN-Service de Recherches Métallurgiques Appliquées CEA Université Paris-Saclay 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette France Received 12 March 2019 Accepted 4 June 2019 Abstract. This paper describes six projects most of which are part of the research portfolio of the EERA JPNM devoted to qualification modelling and development of structural and fuel materials for advanced and innovative nuclear systems with also two examples of projects addressing issues of cross-cutting interest through fusion and fission. The main conclusion is that the benefit of the coordination under the umbrella of in this case the EERA JPNM is clearly felt in terms of better alignment of national programmes and subsequent leveraging of institutional funding to integrate Euratom support. Likewise the benefit of addressing specific issues of common interest for fusion and fission is not only beneficial because of cross-fertilisation but also because it allows more rational use of human and infrastructural resources avoiding duplications. 1 Introduction Thermo-nuclear fusion represents
