NEA/CSNI/R(2006)8
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI), at its meeting in June 2003, agreed to conduct a survey to collect information that help to identify common needs and area of potential co...
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24 May 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)5
In May 2002, an “Exploratory Meeting of Experts to Define an Action Plan on the Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Codes to Nuclear Reactor Safety Problems” was held in Aix-en-Provence...
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15 May 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2006)7
Due to the importance of human and organisational performance on nuclear plant maintenance, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Special Experts’ Group on Human and Organisatio...
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5 April 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)1
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency has long recognised the importance of iodine behaviour and has organised workshops and international standard problems on the subject. In the meantime, experimental and...
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23 February 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)9
In 1998, the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) issued a report on Future Nuclear Regulatory Challenges. This report discussed the potential erosion of safety margins as an area for fu...
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1 January 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)6
This report provides an overview of experimental facilities that can be used to address nuclear safety research issues in OECD member countries, and identifies priorities for organising international...
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1 January 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)3
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is to an increasing extent being adopted in nuclear reactor safety analyses as a tool that enables specific safety relevant phenomena occurring in the reactor coola...
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1 January 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2006)5
This document is intended to provide regulators, their technical support organisations and industry with a concise review of existing fuel experimental data at reactivity-initiated accident (RIA) and...
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28 November 2006
NEA/CSNI/R(2006)6
The purpose of this report is to present in a concise form how some safety matters associated with currently operating light water reactors have been addressed. The issues discussed in this report ar...
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2 November 2006
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17 August 2006
NEA/CSNI/R(2006)2
The Best-estimate Methods – Uncertainty and Sensitivity Evaluation (BEMUSE) Programme, promoted by the Working Group on Accident Management and Analysis (WGAMA) and endorsed by the Committee on the S...
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19 June 2006
NEA/CSNI/R(2006)1
The Committee on Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Special Experts’ Group on Human and Organisational Factors (SEGHOF) was requested by the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Actions (CNRA) to exam...
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16 March 2006
NEA/CNRA/R(2006)1
In 1998, the NEA Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) began an activity, the objective of which was to advance the discussion on how to enhance and measure regulatory effectiveness in re...
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1 March 2006
NEA/CSNI/R(2005)10
The OECD/NEA Committee on Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) addressed the issue of modifications at a workshop on “Modifications at Nuclear Power Plants – Operating Experience, Safety Significan...
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1 December 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2005)7
At the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) meeting of June 2002, a proposal for an International Standard Problem on containment integrity (ISP 48) based on the NRC/NUPEC/Sandia t...
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11 October 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2005)5/VOL3
At the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) meeting in June 2002, the proposal for an International Standard Problem on containment integrity (ISP 48) based on the NRC/NUPEC/Sandia...
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6 September 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2005)5/VOL2
At the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) meeting in June 2002, the proposal for an International Standard Problem on containment integrity (ISP 48) based on the NRC/NUPEC/Sandia...
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6 September 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2005)5/VOL1
At the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) meeting in June 2002, the proposal for an International Standard Problem on containment integrity (ISP 48) based on the NRC/NUPEC/Sandia...
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6 September 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2005)2
At the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) meeting of June 2002, a proposal for a benchmark on thermal fatigue in fluid mixing areas based on the test performed by the Commissaria...
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1 August 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2005)9
In December 2000, the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) and the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) agreed to prepare a state-of-the art report addressing the pres...
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28 July 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2005)3
In December 2000, the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) and the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) agreed to prepare a state-of-the art report addressing the pres...
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28 July 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2005)8
In 2002, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) requested the Working Group on the Integrity and Ageing of Reactor Components and Structures (WGIAGE) to prepare a programme of wo...
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27 July 2005
NEA/CNRA/R(2005)3
In some countries, there is a growing demand for information about NPP performance from the executives, public and media. Such a demand has to be responded to and the information provided need to be ...
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27 May 2005
NEA/CNRA/R(2005)2
In some countries, there is a growing demand for information about NPP performance from the executives, public and media. Such a demand has to be responded to and the information provided need to be ...
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11 May 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2005)1
The TMI-2 accident keeps providing unique full scale data giving opportunities to check the ability of the codes to model overall plant behaviour and to perform many sensitivity and uncertainty calcu...
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10 March 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2004)9
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) workshop on “International Development and Co-operation on Risk-Informed In-Service (RI-ISI) and Non-destructive Testing (NDT) Qualificatio...
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14 February 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2004)22
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) workshop on “Seismic Input Motions Incorporating Recent Geological Studies” was held in Tsukuba, Japan on 15-17 November 2004, and was host...
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14 February 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2005)4
This document is the third in a series of the NEA’s Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Operating Experience (WGOE) technical notes on nuclear power plant (NPP) r...
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25 January 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2004)19
The Special Expert Group on Fuel Safety Margins (SEGFSM) was established by the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) with the objective to advance the current understanding and to ...
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7 January 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2004)21
The Third International Conference on Fatigue of Reactor Components held in Seville, Spain on 3-6 October 2004 was co-organised by the EPRI, the US NRC and the OECD NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuc...
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5 January 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2004)24
At its annual meeting in December 1999, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) issued a recommendation to set up an international collaborative project in the field of thermal-hy...
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1 December 2004
NEA/CSNI/R(2004)2
The workshop on Debris Impact on Emergency Coolant Recirculation was held in Albuquerque, the United States on 25-27 February 2004. It was organised under the auspices of the NEA Committee on the Saf...
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24 November 2004
NEA/CSNI/R(2004)23
The focus of the Material Scaling (MASCA) Project was to investigate in detail the chemical behaviour of corium in contact with structural materials, with emphasis mainly on steel. This report provid...
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1 November 2004
NEA/CSNI/R(2004)16
The main objective of ISP exercises is to increase confidence in the validity and accuracy of the tools that are used in assessing the safety of nuclear installations. The secondary objective is to e...
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1 November 2004
NEA/CSNI/R(2004)17
The Nuclear Energy Agency Committe on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) addressed the issue of modifications at the workshop “Modifications at Nuclear Power Plants – Operating Experience, Sa...
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1 October 2004
NEA/CSNI/R(2004)12
The December 2000 meeting of the NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) accepted a proposal to set up a task group to prepare a report describing research efforts related to wire...
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11 August 2004
NEA/CSNI/R(2004)11
At the Committe on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) meeting of June 2002, a proposal for an International Standard Problem on containment integrity (ISP 48) based on the NRC/NUPEC/Sandia te...
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20 July 2004
NEA/CSNI/R(2004)8
The OECD-NEA/RILEM workshop on the “Use and Performance of Concrete in Nuclear Power Plant Fuel Cycle Facilities”, conducted based on a proposal of the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installation...
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8 July 2004
NEA/CSNI/R(2004)10
In the report “Nuclear Safety Research in OECD Countries: Summary Report of Major Facilities and Programmes at Risk“ published by the NEA/CSNI Senior Group of Experts on Nuclear Safety Research Facil...
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7 July 2004
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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29 June 2004
NEA/CSNI/R(2004)7
The overall objective of the international OECD programme SERENA is to obtain convergence on the understanding of fuel-coolant interaction (FCI) processes and energetics, as well as on method(s) for ...
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12 March 2004
NEA/CSNI/R(2004)6
The “Current Severe Accident Research Facilities and Projects” list was compiled by the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations Working (CSNI) Group on the Analysis and Management of Acciden...
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9 March 2004
NEA/CSNI/R(2004)5
This revised document was reviewed and endorsed in September 2003 by the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on the Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA), whi...
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9 March 2004
NEA/CSNI/R(2004)4
Several member countries of the Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD/NEA) established the International Common-Cause Failure Data Exchange Project...
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30 January 2004
NEA/CSNI/R(2004)3
This document is the second in a series of CSNI Working Group on Operating Experience (WGOE) technical notes on recent events in nuclear power plants (NPPs). The purpose is to transmit WGOE views to ...
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16 January 2004
NEA/CSNI/R(2004)1
The present document is a summary record of an experts meeting held in Madrid, Spain on 18-19 November 2003. The purpose of the meeting was to determine the interest in member countries for the types...
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13 January 2004
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28 November 2003
This benchmark is based on a well-defined problem concerning a pressurised water reactor (PWR) main steam line break, which may occur as a consequence of the rupture of one steam line upstream of the...
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19 November 2003
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11 July 2003
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1 July 2003