Published date:
9 July 2001
Published date:
5 February 2003
Published date:
11 February 2003
NEA/CSNI/R(1996)17
This report deals with an internationally agreed integral test facility (ITF) matrix for the validation of best estimate thermal-hydraulic computer codes. Firstly, the main physical phenomena that oc...
Published date:
1 January 1996
Published date:
1 January 1998
NEA/CSNI/R(1997)27
Lyon, France, 8-10 September 1997
Published date:
1 January 1997
Published date:
1 January 1991
NEA/CSNI/R(1991)8
Three Mile Island Unit 2 Analysis Exercise Final Report
Published date:
1 January 1991
Published date:
10 August 2021
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 ...
Published date:
7 January 2005
Published date:
1 July 2003
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...
Published date:
1 October 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...
Published date:
1 November 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...
Published date:
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...
Published date:
20 July 2004
Major nuclear safety research facilities and programmes are facing increasing budgetary constraints, and in many cases are being closed or terminated. This report identifies major facilities of vital...
Published date:
20 April 2001
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...
Published date:
7 July 2004
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...
Published date:
14 February 2005
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...
Published date:
8 July 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 ...
Published date:
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...
Published date:
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...
Published date:
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...
Published date:
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 ...
Published date:
16 January 2004
Published date:
25 November 2021
25 -
28 May 2021
Videoconference, Zoom
In the aftermath of the Fukushima accident, the nuclear community has been re-evaluating seismic hazard at nuclear facilities worldwide. One of the major challenges in this effort is quantifying and ...
Published date:
1 December 2021
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)7
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) has as a general mandate to advance the current understanding o...
Published date:
17 July 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)6/VOL3
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...
Published date:
26 November 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)6/VOL2
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...
Published date:
26 November 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)6/VOL1
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...
Published date:
26 November 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)5
In 2007, the NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) issued a report titled Nuclear Safety Research in OECD Countries: Support Facilities for Existing and Advanced Reactors (SFEAR...
Published date:
20 December 2021
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)3
At their meeting of December 2006, the NEA Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) and the NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) agreed to hold a workshop on the Role ...
Published date:
1 January 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)2
The OECD-IAEA Paks Fuel Project was established in 2005 as a joint project between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). The IAEA provided financial ...
Published date:
18 September 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)1
Common-cause-failure (CCF) events can significantly impact the availability of safety systems of nuclear power plants. For this reason, the International Common Cause Failure Data Exchange (ICDE) pro...
Published date:
25 January 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)18
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Workshop on Structural Reliability Evaluation and Mechanical Probabilistic Approaches of NPP Components was held in Lyon, France on 25-27 S...
Published date:
20 December 2021
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)17
At the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) meeting in June 2003, a proposal of the CSNI Working Group on the Integrity and Ageing (WGIAGE) to examine the differences in approach b...
Published date:
1 February 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)13
Following recommendations made at an “Exploratory Meeting of Experts to Define an Action Plan on the Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Codes to Nuclear Reactor Safety (NRS) Problems”,...
Published date:
28 January 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)11
The Steam Explosion Resolution for Nuclear Applications (SERENA) programme stems from concerns expressed by the Senior Group of Experts on Nuclear Safety Research Facilities and Programmes (SESAR/FAP...
Published date:
17 September 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)10
The main objective of ISP-47 was to assess the capabilities of lumped parameter (LP) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes in the area of containment thermal-hydraulics. Following the recommen...
Published date:
11 September 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...
Published date:
1 January 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)8
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Human and Oganisational Factors (WGHOF) and the Halden Reactor Project (HRP) hosted a joint workshop titled “Future Contro...
Published date:
15 October 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)7/REV1
The Operating Plan describes the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) responsibility and organisation, overall scope of work and working methods, and is supplemented by the so-call...
Published date:
11 April 2008
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...
Published date:
1 January 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...
Published date:
15 May 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)4
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 Sa...
Published date:
11 October 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...
Published date:
1 January 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...
Published date:
23 February 2007
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...
Published date:
24 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...
Published date:
5 April 2007
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...
Published date:
2 November 2006