HARMONICS is a FP7 Euratom funded research in fission and radiation protection

Project Objective 

The objective of the HARMONICS project is to ensure that the nuclear industry has well founded and up-to-date methods and data for assessing software of safety systems of Gen-II and Gen-III nuclear power plants.

HARMONICS will propose a more systematic and consistent, yet realistic and practical, approach for the software assessment. The approach will address the complete software and system lifecycle, from requirements specification to architectural and detailed design, development, testing, use and maintenance. HARMONICS will be the result of a close co-operation between the EU and China. In addition to the core project team, a larger advisory and end user group will be constituted with other interested stakeholders to review and give feedback on the project work. The project should foster an international consensus based on a sound scientific and technical approach, and provide a good basis for harmonisation.

The project started in January 2011 and ends in January 2015.