During the mid 1990s a task group was formed within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development/Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD/NEA) to exchange information on events involving computer-ba...

The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Human and Organisational Factors (WGHOF) is tasked to improve the current understanding of human and organisational perfor...

The NEA Working Group on Human and Organisational Factors (WGHOF) is tasked to improve the current understanding of human and organisational performance and the way in which this impacts upon nuclear...

Regulatory bodies are taking a growing interest in the issue of safety culture, and several are actively working to develop and implement approaches to maintaining oversight of licensee safety cultur...

One of the key areas of uncertainty in current probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) involves human reliability analysis (HRA). The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Gro...

This report provides a description of the state-of-the-art in the development and use of risk monitors at nuclear power plants in member states. The work was carried out jointly by the International ...

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...

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...

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...

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...