Kick-off workshop of the thermal hydraulic code validation benchmark for high temperature gas-cooled reactors using High Temperature Test Facility (HTTF) data.
Under the guidance of the Nuclear Science Committee (NSC), the Working Party on Materials Science Issues in Nuclear Fuels and Structural Materials (WPFM) addresses materials science aspects of nuclea...
This report presents the results of a benchmark study on innovative fuels for fast reactors using fuel performance codes. Irradiation results were shared among participants of the expert group and co...
Monte Carlo criticality calculations involve a two-step procedure based on a stochastic implementation of the power iteration method: first, achieve convergence of the fission source distribution dur...
Since the early 2000s there is an increasing demand from nuclear research, industry, safety and regulation for best-estimate predictions to be provided with their confidence bounds. Consequently, an ...
The NEA thermal hydraulic code validation benchmark for high temperature gas-cooled reactors using HTTF data (HTGR T/H), supervised by the Expert Group on Reactor Core Thermal-Hydraulics and Mechanic...
NEST Alumni share valuable lessons from their fellowships
The Technical Review Groups for both projects met at the NEA headquarters on 3-7 April 2023.
Members of FIDES-II from 12 countries assembled in Prague, Czech Republic, on 17-21 April 2023 for meetings of its Technical Advisory Group and Governing Board.
The WPRS met from 20-24 February 2023.
Expert groups on structural and fuel materials meet to advance materials science activities
Thermodynamic databases and accident prevention
International experts gathered at the NEA for the commencement of the third phase TAF-ID on 16-17 February 2023.
Development started on DATIF, the DATabase for IFpe, in 2018 in order to enhance accessibility to the IFPE legacy collection of integral fuel performance experiments data, jointly put together by the...
EGPRS Task Force members met on 3 April 2023.
Under the guidance of the Working Party on Materials Science Issues in Nuclear Fuels and Structural Materials (WPFM), the Expert Group on Structural Materials (EGSM) focuses on materials science aspe...
Under the guidance of the Working Party on Materials Science Issues in Nuclear Fuels and Structural Materials (WPFM), the Expert Group on Fuel Materials (EGFM) focuses on materials science aspects of...
Under the guidance of the Nuclear Science Committee (NSC) and under the mandate of the Working Party on Multi-scale Modelling of Materials (WPMM), the scope of the Expert Group on Multi-scale Modelli...
Advanced techniques for fuel modelling have progressed considerably in the last decade in part aided due to progress in high-performance computational capability. At the engineering scale, this has r...