This Phase II exercise was the first benchmarking of severe accident codes promoted by NEA in almost 20 years. The objective of the exercise was to perform a code benchmark on a well-defined plant (s...
Activity report of the OECD NEA Bubbler Condenser Steering Group, January 2003
In 2012, following a proposal from Japan, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) decided to initiate a joint project to conduct a study of the accident progression for the Fukush...
September 2000
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) is responsible for NEA programmes and activities that support maintaining and advancing the scientific and technical knowledge base of the ...
In 2005 the OECD/NEA Steering Committee agreed to establish the international Computer-based Systems Important to Safety (COMPSIS) project to encourage multilateral co-operation in the collection and...
The CSNI Action Plan in the Area of Safety Margins was set up by the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI),
The Programme Review Group is established to perform a programme quality review function within the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) and to provide scientific assistance to the...
The objective of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Working Group on Fuel Cycle Safety (WGFCS) is to advance the understanding for both regulators and operators of relevant aspects of fuel cycle sa...
The workshop was held in Aomori City, Japan on 15-17 November 2016.
On 11 March 2011, the Tohoku-Taiheiyou-Oki earthquake occurred near the east coast of Honshu, Japan. This magnitude 9.0 earthquake ...
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 ...
Electrical cable fire test, IRSN.
The NEA PRISME project addressed in a series of 3 phases from 2006 till 2022 fire risk research. Operating experience shows that fire is one of the highest risks i...
Scheme of the DIVA Facility, IRSN
The Fire Risk Assessment through Innovative Research Project is a follow-up of the PRISME project series which addresses new fire scenarios and new topics of inter...
The facilities associated with nuclear fuel from mining to fabrication to post-irradiation management have some specific safety concerns that are different from those of nuclear reactors.
A cabinet containing copper bus before the HEAF test (left) and after the test(right). Source: NRC
Massive electrical discharges, referred to as high energy arcing faults (HEAF), have occurred in nuc...
Hosted by the French Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) and the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)
Working under the mandate of the CSNI, the objective of the WGFCS i...
The workshop was hosted by the French Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) and the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Commit...
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Fuel Cycle Safety (WGFCS) held an international workshop on Operational and Regulatory As...