FIDES-II member assembled at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) in Mito, Japan.
The NEA ATLAS3 and NEA ETHARINUS projects organised a workshop on 7-9 November 2023.
The Fire Incidents Records Exchange (FIRE) Project started in 2002 and phase 7 of the project began in 2023 for a duration of three years, with 14 countries currently participating. The main purpose ...
The NEA Second Framework for Irradiation Experiments (FIDES-II) supports the fuel and material experimental needs of nuclear safety regulators, technical support organisations, research institutions ...
International workshop convened experts in the field to United States.
Scheme of the ROSA LSTF facility, JAEA
The Rig-of-safety Assessment (ROSA) Project aimed to resolve issues in thermal-hydraulics analyses relevant to light water reactor (LWR) safety using the Japa...
View of the ATLAS experimental loop. KAERI, KoreaThe Advanced Thermal-hydraulic Test Loop for Accident Simulation (ATLAS) Project was referenced in The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident...
Left: Scheme of Studsvik LOCA test facility Right: Microstructure of fragmented nuclear fuel, Studsvik
Photos: SFP testing. Left: fuel assembly after a Zr fire; right: fire ignition test. SNL/USNRC.
The goal of the Sandia Fuel Project was to provide experimental data relevant for hydraulic and ignitio...
Scheme showing the technical scope of NEA ICDE project activities, NEA
Common-cause failure (CCF) events can significantly affect the availability of safety systems of nuclear power plants. In recog...
Scheme of the PKL facility, Framatome GmbH.
The SESAR Thermal-hydraulics (SETH) Project began in 2001 and consisted of thermal-hydraulic experiments in support of accident management, which were ca...
Scheme of the THAI+ facility, Becker Technologies.
The experimental investigations carried out in the frame of the THAI (2007-2009), THAI-2 (2011-2014) and THAI-3 (2016-2019) projects contributed s...
In a core melt accident, if the molten core is not retained in-vessel despite severe accident mitigation actions, the core debris will relocate to the reactor cavity region and interact with the stru...
Image: Microscopic examination of U-bearing particles collected at Fukushima-Daiichi, JAEA
The Thermodynamic Characterisation of Fuel Debris and Fission Products ...
General view of the EREC test facility BC V-213, source: EREC
There are several VVER-440/213* type nuclear power plants operating in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovak Republic, Russia and Ukraine...
PKL facility. Photo: FRAMATOME, Germany
The Primärkreislauf-Versuchsanlage (Primary Coolant Loop Test Facility [PKL]) is a facility owned and operated by Framatome GmbH (formerly AREVA NP) in Erlange...
Scheme of the PSB-VVER facility, EREC
The NEA PSB-VVER project provided unique and useful experimental data for code validation using the PSB-VVER test facility. The PSB-VVER facility is a large-scal...
View of the RASPLAV-3 Facility.
The Material Scaling (MASCA) Project was a follow-up of the RASPLAV Project and investigated in-vessel phenomena during a severe accident with core melt. Specifica...
RASPLAV-A-Salt Facility, EREC.
The RASPLAV* Project was regarded as a successor to the Three Mile Island Vessel Investigation Project (TMI-VIP) completed in 1993. The TMI-VIP Project was set up t...