European Union’s (EU) (currently 27 Member States) shared-cost research has been organised in Framework Programmes (FP) of durations of 4-5 years since 1984. The 6th European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) Framework Programme (2002-06) and the current 7th FP (2007-11) have been allocated a fission research budget respectively of 209 and 287 Million Euro from the European Community (EC). In F...