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...

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...

The Best-estimate Methods – Uncertainty and Sensitivity Evaluation (BEMUSE) programme, promoted by the Working Group on Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) and endorsed by the Committee on t...

At its 61st meeting, the CSNI approved the recommended task on the benchmark on external events hazard frequency and magnitude statistical modelling, to be pursued by the WGEV. Modelling of these ext...

For most nuclear design and in-service inspection codes, fracture mechanics is used to evaluate the integrity of cracked components. The major parameters used in this kind of analysis are K and J whi...

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...

Units 1 and 2 End of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (4^th October, 2011). Photo: Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings

The Benchmark Study of the Acci...

The NEA Working Group on Fuel Safety (WGFS) is tasked with advancing understanding of fuel safety issues by assessing the technical basis for current safety criteria and their applicability to high b...

The objective of this joint WGAMA-WPNEM activity was to benchmark software tools used to estimate consequences of accidents at nuclear facilities. Two aspects of accident consequences were considered...

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...