NEA/CSNI/R(2012)6/VOL3
This report describes final prediction results by system analysis codes during the OECD/NEA ISP-50 exercise, targeting a 50% direct vessel injection (DVI) line break integral effect test performe...
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27 February 2012
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...
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11 September 2007
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19 April 2018
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Hosted by the French Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) and the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)
Objectives
Working under the mandate of the CSNI, the objective of the WGFCS i...
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30 April 2020
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19 April 2018
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
The workshop was hosted by the French Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) and the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)
General information
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Commit...
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6 February 2020
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17 November 2023
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852, United States
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10 October 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2015)12
On 28-30 April 2014, the CSNI Working Group on Risk Assessment (WGRISK) held a workshop on Fire Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) in Garching, Germany. The meeting was attended by nearly 60 partici...
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1 November 2015
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21 May 2015
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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...
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19 May 2015
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4 October 2022
OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, 46 Quai Alphonse le Gallo, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
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3 November 2022
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13 September 2023
IRSN, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
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4 September 2023
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11 May 2011
OECD Conference Centre, Paris, France
The July 2006 Forsmark-1 event identified a number of design deficiencies related to electrical power supply to systems and components important to safety in nuclear power plants. The CSNI establishe...
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4 May 2020
NEA/CSNI/R(2017)14
Fire hazards analyses (FHA) and probabilistic fire safety analyses (Fire PSA) have demonstrated that fire may be an important contributor to core damage frequency and other major plant damage states...
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11 January 2018
NEA/CSNI/R(2011)9
The main goal of the ISP-49 on Hydrogen Combustion is to identify the contemporary level of the numerical tools in the area of hydrogen combustion simulation under the conditions typical for safety c...
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18 January 2012
NEA/CNRA/R(2006)1
In 1998, the NEA Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) began an activity, the objective of which was to advance the discussion on how to enhance and measure regulatory effectiveness in re...
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1 March 2006
NEA/CNRA/R(2011)1
This Joint Strategic Plan for the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) and the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) takes into account the evolving statut of the nucle...
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7 October 2010
NEA/CSNI/R(2011)1/REV1
This Joint Strategic Plan for the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) and the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) takes into account the evolving status of the nucle...
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25 February 2013
Joint NEA-IAEA meeting on electrical power systems, 2‑5 December 2019
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5 December 2019
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13 June 2017
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4 October 2017
Project members held a meeting to discuss the activities.
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16 April 2024
The NEA Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) and the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) held their biannual meetings from 6 to 9 December 2021 and discussed the evol...
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14 December 2021
CNRA/CSNI meetings, May-June 2021.
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10 June 2021
NEA/CSNI/R(2014)10
The impact of leaking fuel rods on the operation of nuclear power plants and the practices of handling leaking fuel has been reviewed by the CSNI Working Group on Fuel Safety (WGFS) in order to promo...
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18 July 2014
NEA/CSNI/R(2005)4
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...
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25 January 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2018)5
This report documents a study performed on a set of common-cause failure (CCF) events of Emergency Diesel Generators (EDG) at nuclear power plants. In May 2000, the ICDE Project published a report su...
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26 September 2018
NEA/CNRA/R(1997)2
Based on a request of Committees, an Organising Committee of Experts on sofware licensing issues was established to develop a state-of-the-art view of the technological problems and methods for ident...
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1 January 1997
As the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (NPP) accident illustrates, many challenges have to be faced in maintaining safety over the long term in a damaged NPP following a severe accident. These ...
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29 April 2021
The NEA Working Group on Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) organised a specialist workshop entitled “Reactor core and containment cooling systems: Long-term management and reliability (RCC...
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29 October 2021
JAEA High-temperature Engineering Test Reactor Photo: Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Task Group on Advanced Reactor Experimental Facil...
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19 March 2024
View looking down onto the LOFT reactor
The Loss-of-fluid Test (LOFT) Research Programme was originally set up by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Part of the programme was later broadened int...
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2 October 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2002)27
Volume 1 – Integral Experiments and Material Characterization
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28 May 2003
NEA/CSNI/R(2004)23
The focus of the Material Scaling (MASCA) Project was to investigate in detail the chemical behaviour of corium in contact with structural materials, with emphasis mainly on steel. This report provid...
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1 November 2004
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)15
The Material Scaling (MASCA) Project investigated in-vessel phenomena during a severe accident. In particular, it addressed the influence of the chemical composition of the molten corium on the heat ...
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1 June 2007
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...
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6 October 2023
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...
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2 October 2023
The meeting marked an important transition for the framework with the launch of four new Joint Experimental Programmes (JEEPs).
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24 April 2024
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.
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21 April 2023
FIDES-II member assembled at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) in Mito, Japan.
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23 November 2023
This report further explores some of the key elements presented in The Safety Culture of an Effective Regulatory Body (2016), commonly known as the NEA Green Booklet, and provides both an overview an...
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10 May 2021
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18 December 2020
Zoom webinar
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in collaboration with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) hosted an international, multi-sector workshop on 14-18 December 2020 on safely regulating inn...
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25 May 2021
NEA/CSNI/R(2017)19
The main objectives of the current activity are the promotion, test and evaluation of various methodologies for uncertainty quantification in computational fluid dynamics (UQCFD) for nuclear reactor...
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6 February 2019
The brochure provides background information about the NEA.
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10 September 2018
NEA/CSNI/R(2018)12
Several NEA member countries have agreed to establish the Component Operational Experience, Degradation and Ageing Programme (CODAP) to encourage multilateral co-operation in the collection and analy...
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4 April 2019
NEA/CSNI/R(2019)7
Several Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) member countries have agreed to establish the Component Operational Experience, Degradation and Ageing Programme (CODAP) to encourage multilateral co-operation in...
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21 January 2019
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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 ...
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1 December 2021
NEA/CSNI/R(2022)9
The objective of this study is to compare leak rate computation practices and the applied tools and software solutions. Leak rate prediction is an important aspect of the leak-beforebreak assessment,...
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13 March 2024
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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29 June 2004
The NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) and the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) convened on 4-8 December to discuss current activities and plan future body o...
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18 December 2023
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13 January 2023
Online
Since its inception, the NEA has provided a highly flexible and powerful platform for multinational research co-operation, particularly in areas related to providing understanding and insights needed...
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27 February 2024
NEA/CSNI/R(2022)3
The NEA Specialist Workshop on Advanced Measurement Method and Instrumentation for Enhancing Severe Accident Management in a Nuclear Power Plant addressing Emergency, Stabilisation and Long-term Reco...
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15 April 2024
NEA/CNRA/R(2014)4
An international Workshop on Challenges and Enhancements to Defence in Depth (DiD) in Light of the Fukushima Daiichi Accident was jointly organised by the NEA Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activiti...
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22 May 2014