With the growing importance of SMRs, following the proposal of the CSNI Bureau, the CSNI has decided to create an Expert Group on SMRs (EGSMR), at its 69th meeting held on 2-3 June 2021.

While there is a growing interest in the deployment of small modular reactors (SMRs) as a promising option to help mitigate climate change, further international efforts are needed to accelerate the ...

NEA Working Group on Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) initiated this activity focusing on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in nuclear reactor safety (NRS).

The NEA Working Group on the Analysis and Management of Accidents convened for its annual meeting to discuss ongoing work related to accident strategy and management.

The eighth instalment of the workshop on computational fluid dynamics for nuclear reactor safety (CFD4NRS-8) was organised by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Instal...

Experts attended NEA event in France.

One of the major achievements of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) is the knowledge it has helped to generate through the organisation of joint international research projects. Such projects, prim...

In response to the technical and scientific needs emerged recently in this area, the Working Group of External Events (WGEV) and the Working Group on Risk Assessment (WGRISK) initiated a joint task e...

The scope of the proposed project is therefore to perform practical exercises of demonstration of the SAPIUM approach.

Image: Microscopic examination of U-bearing particles collected at Fukushima-Daiichi, JAEA

TCOFF Phases

First Phase (2017-2020)

The Thermodynamic Characterisation of Fuel Debris and Fission Products ...

Scheme of the ROSA LSTF facility, JAEA

The Rig-of-safety Assessment (ROSA) Project aimed to resolve issues in thermal-hydraulics analyses relevant to light water reactor (LWR) safety using the Japa...

Irradiation Vessel with Coupons, CNL

The NEA Behaviour of Iodine Project (BIP) was created to provide separate effects and modelling studies of iodine behaviour in a nuclear reactor containment bui...

PANDA vessel assembly (construction phase, 1993), PSI.

The PANDA project is a follow-up of the HYMERES-2 project, and its general objective is to advance the knowledge on the containment of thermal...

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 objective of the NEA THAI-3 project was to address open questions concerning the behaviour of hydrogen, iodine and aerosols under severe accident conditions in the containment of water cooled rea...

Deadline for submission of abstracts       31 July 2023  (extended) 

Notification of accepted contributions      17 August 2023

Deadline for attendance registration          27 Oct 2023      

Deadline for presentation submiss...

The cold leg mixing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) – uncertainty quantification (CLM-UQ) benchmark is the fifth benchmark concerning CFD applications to nuclear reactor safety to be organised in ...

The workshop on the Approaches to design, implementation and operation of electrical systems for beyond design basis equipment and management of geomagnetically induced currents in electrical systems...

Supporting the use of computational fluid dynamics for nuclear reactor safety

Innovations in nuclear safety thermal-hydraulics

10-year FIDES-II strategic plan will define key research needs in a variety of technical disciplines.

Around 50 delegates from 22 countries and 2 international organisations gathered on 6-7 June 2023 for the 73rd CSNI meeting.

The FIDES-II framework is designed to do more than just produce data on transient fuel behavior and safety related issues. 

The NEA Second Framework for Irradiation Experiments (FIDES-II) supports the fuel and material experimental needs of nuclear safety regulators, technical support organisations, research institutions ...

Image: QUENCH facility at KIT. Court. KIT. 

The purpose of the QUENCH-ATF project is to investigate the chemical, mechanical and thermal-hydraulics behaviour of ATF claddings in Design Basis Accident...

Recent operating experience in nuclear power plants has shown that there is a safety concern associated with the use of new industrial devices, including digital devices, in safety power systems in b...

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.

Approximately 30 experts from WGAMA discussed how to advance the understanding of phenomena in pool in the situation of a loss of cooling accident.

Cabri Reactor (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives)

The Cabri International Project (CIP) began in March 2000 to study the behaviour of nuclear fuel rods and cladding durin...

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...

The Expert Group on Small and Modular Reactors (EGSMR) continues to make progress with its forthcoming report 

Left: Test facility for qualification of melt spreading tests. Photo: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL).
Right: Example of corium melt pouring for a melt spreading preparatory test. Photo: Argonne Nat...

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 ...

The VeRCoRs facility mock-up is a reactor containment building at 1/3 scale. The mock-up is instrumented so that its behaviour is monitored from the beginning of construction. More than 700 sensors a...

Following the recommendations from the technical workshop on “Nuclear Fuel Behaviour during Reactivity-Initiated Accidents” organised by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in September 2009, a first ben...

In the ASCET Phase III, the goal was to assess and develop the Phase II (blind benchmark) recommendations using additional test results. The Phase III simulations were performed using a full set of t...

The aim of this report is to examine whether there are any international variations in the electrical power system designs (“design variations”) of nuclear power plants that affect the system respons...

The present report summarises the main results and learnings from the third phase of the NEA Behaviour of Iodine Project (BIP-3), which was conducted between 2016 and 2019 by the Canadian Nuclear Lab...

In order to reach a better understanding of countries’ different approaches to the evaluation of vibrations detected in piping systems and components, the NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Insta...

Scheme showing the technical scope of NEA ICDE project activities, NEA 

Common-cause failure (CCF) events can significantly affect the availability of safety systems of nuclear power plants. In recog...

^{View of the ATLAS experimental loop. KAERI, Korea}

The Advanced Thermal-hydraulic Test Loop for Accident Simulation (ATLAS) Project was referenced in The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident...

The 9^th edition of the Computational Fluid Dynamics for Nuclear Reactor Safety workshop was hosted by Texas A&M University on 20-22 February 2023. 

Independent safety regulation has been a hallmark of the global nuclear power sector from its beginnings. Industry and government have long understood the importance of a predictable and adaptable re...

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...

Feeders on the Reactor Face in the Feeder Cabinet Photo: Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC)

The Component Operational Experience, Degradation and Ageing Programme (CODAP) combines the follow-u...

Studsvik’s pool facility for storage and inspection of SMILE materials, left: 29 tonnes transportation flask, three pools each about 8 meters deep; and right: pool-in-pool for cutting and inspections...

Appearance of Unit 1 and 2 reactor buildings at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (June 2022). Photo: Japan Nuclear Regulation Authority

The FACE projec...

Investigation for damage condition and radiation dose in Unit 3 at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (December 2019). Photo: Japan Nuclear Regulation Au...

End state of debris in the units 1-3 of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings. Photo: Japan Atomic Energy Agency

The Preparatory Study on Analysis of Fuel D...

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...

CHIP experimental facility to study fission product transport and deposition in the primary circuit. Photo: IRSN

Following several years of experimental research in the field of source terms analysis...

Photo: RBHT Test Facility. US NRC.

Modelling reactor core behaviour under accident conditions with delayed re-introduction of cooling water (commonly referred to as reflood) is a challenge for safety...

PKL facility. Photo: FRAMATOME, Germany

The Experimental Thermal Hydraulics for Analysis, Research and Innovations in Nuclear Safety (ETHARINUS) project serves the objectives of investigating phenome...

PKL facility. Photo: FRAMATOME, Germany

The Primärkreislauf-Versuchsanlage (Primary Coolant Loop Test Facility [PKL]) is a facility owned and operated by Framatome GmbH (formerly AREVA NP) in Erlange...

Photos: SFP testing. Left: fuel assembly after a Zr fire; right: fire ignition test. SNL/USNRC.

The goal of the Sandia Fuel Project was to provide experimental data relevant for hydraulic and ignitio...

Left: Scheme of Studsvik LOCA test facility Right: Microstructure of fragmented nuclear fuel, Studsvik

The Halden Reactor Project has been in operation at the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) in Norway since 1958 and is the oldest NEA joint project. It brings together a large international techni...

The brochure provides background information about the NEA.

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Strategic Plan serves as a guiding instrument that reflects the priorities of its member countries as the Agency addresses evolving needs in the exploration and a...

This Strategic Plan is intended to guide the NEA as it seeks to meet the evolving needs of member countries in the application and exploration of nuclear science and technology. The plan includes an ...

The NEA Annual Report 2019 provides an overview of the status of nuclear power in NEA member countries and illustrative descriptions of the Agency's activities and international joint projects. 2019 ...

Since the beginning of benchmark activities, two benchmark workshops took place. The first was held in Madrid, Spain (June 1998), and the second in Garching near Munich, Germany (March 1999). It was ...

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...

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...

Second Workshop on International Harvesting Co-operation focused on the status of aged metals harvesting and opportunities for international collaborative research.

Two new reports from the WGFS highlight the latest developments in RIA research.

Taking into account life extension, concrete degradation becomes one of the main issues for long-term operation (LTO). Concrete pathologies/degradation mechanisms – alkali-aggregate reaction (AAR), d...

Taking into account life extension of nuclear power plants (NPPs) there is a need to investigate degradation mechanisms of existing structures defining their aging management program. The Alkali Aggr...

The objective of the CSNI ASCET activity is to make general recommendations for ageing management of concrete nuclear facilities taking into account the effect of concrete pathologies on structural d...

Increasingly engineers are confronted with the need to perform predictive structural assessment based on limited or incomplete data set. This may include damage up to failure assessment (in the conte...

Since 2001, the NEA has supported the Senior Expert Group on Safety Research Thermal-hydraulics (SETH), the Primärkreislauf-Versuchsanlage - Primary Coolant Loop Test Facility (PKL), PKL-2 and PKL-3 ...

Prevention, mitigation and management of potential accidents in nuclear power plants

As a follow-up to the 2010 NEA report Nuclear Fuel Behaviour under Reactivity-initiated Accident (RIA) Conditions: State-of-the-art Report 2010, this report presents the state-of-the-art knowledge on...

CSNI and CNRA held their biannual meetings and a joint session at the NEA headquarters.

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident: Message from Director-General Magwood

The NEA Working Group on Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) organised a specialists’ meeting on transient thermal-hydraulics in water cooled nuclear reactors on 22-23 March 2022.

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...

The Specialists Workshop on Advanced Instrumentation and Measurement Techniques for Experiments Related to Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics and Severe Accidents (SWINTH-2019), co-organised by the S...

This report provides insights from a survey of Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) member countries on the concepts used to establish effective measures to cope with external flooding hazards and on the term...

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has just published a new report entitled Five Years after the Fukushima Daiichi Accident: Nuclear Safety Improvements and Lessons Learnt.

Common-cause failure (CCF) events can significantly impact the availability of safety systems of nuclear power plants. For this reason, the International Common-Cause Failure Data Exchange (ICDE) Pro...

The workshop on Debris Impact on Emergency Coolant Recirculation was held in Albuquerque, the United States on 25-27 February 2004. It was organised under the auspices of the NEA Committee on the Saf...

The present document is a summary record of an experts meeting held in Madrid, Spain on 18-19 November 2003. The purpose of the meeting was to determine the interest in member countries for the types...

The CSNI Working Group on Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) objective is to assess and where necessary strengthen the technical basis needed for the prevention, mitigation and management o...

The CSNI Working Group on Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) objective is to assess and where necessary strengthen the technical basis needed for the prevention, mitigation and management o...

The CSNI Working Group on Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) objective is to assess and where necessary strengthen the technical basis needed for the prevention, mitigation and management o...

The CSNI Working Group on Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) objective is to assess and where necessary strengthen the technical basis needed for the prevention, mitigation and management o...

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

Due to the high safety significance and importance to nuclear regulators NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) initiated in 2009 an international activity on high energy arcing ...

The OECD/NEA-KAERI MATiS-H benchmark was initiated to test the ability of state-of-the-art computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes to predict important turbulence parameters downstream of a generic ...

The first workshop on Seismic Observation in Deep Borehole and Its Applications (Kashiwazaki WS) was held as an embedded workshop in the First Kashiwazaki Symposium on Seismic Safety of Nuclear Insta...

The purpose of the ICDE Project is to allow multiple countries to collaborate and exchange common cause failure (CCF) data to enhance the quality of risk analyses that include CCF modelling. Because ...

The purpose of the International Common Cause Data Exchange (ICDE) Project is to allow multiple countries to collaborate and exchange Common Cause Failure (CCF) data to enhance the quality of risk an...

The OECD/NEA ROSA Project was performed to resolve issues in thermal-hydraulics analyses relevant to light water reactor (LWR) safety by using the ROSA/LSTF of JAEA for 4 years from April 2005. In pa...

This report has been written in the framework of seismic subgroup of the NEA CSNI Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) to provide a brief review of current prac...

Thisi document contains Appendix C of the Proceedings of the Expert Workshop on Human Factors Validation of Nuclear Power Plant Control Room Designs and Modifications held in Charlotte, United States...

This document is Appendix B of the Proceedings of the Expert Workshop on Human Factors Validation of Nuclear Power Plant Control Room Designs and Modifications, held in Charlotte, United States on 19...

Survey of Existing Practices and Status of Benchmark Work

NEA CSNI Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) has the main mission to advance the current understandin...

NEA CSNI Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) has the main mission to advance the current understanding of those aspects relevant to ensuring the integrity of s...

The Defence in Depth of Electrical Systems (DIDELSYS) Project (2008-2011) was launched after a switchyard-induced voltage surge event at Forsmark nuclear power plant (NPP) in July 2006 which caused t...

This document contains Appendix 2 (cont'd) and Appendix 3 of the workshop on Robustness of Electrical Systems (ROBELSYS) of Nuclear Power Plants in Light of the Fukushima Daiichi Accident, held in Pa...

Based on the conclusions of the previous benchmark exercise, the NEA Working Group on Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) felt it worthwhile to extend the accident analysis scope by examinin...

Spent fuel pools (SFPs) are large accident-hardened structures that are used to temporarily store irradiated nuclear fuel. Due to the robustness of the structures, SFP severe accidents have long been...

The work described in this report was conducted as a joint task under the CSNI Working Groups on Human and Organisational Factors (WGHOF) and Risk Assessment (WGRISK). The task has two primary purpos...

One of the imperatives following the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station is for the nuclear science and industry communities to ensure that knowledge gaps in nuclear safety are id...

PREMIUM is the follow-up of a series of projects promoted by NEA/CSNI and focused on the issue of best estimate plus uncertainty (BEPU) analysis of thermo-hydraulic accident scenarios in nuclear plan...

The theme of this workshop, held in Charlotte, United States on 19-21 February 2015, was “Establishing Reasonable Confidence in the Human Factors Validation of Main Control Room Systems of Nuclear Po...

Since the time of the first LOCA experiments, which were largely conducted with fresh fuel, changes in the fuel design, the introduction of new cladding materials and in particular the move to high b...

Since 2002, the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has sponsored the Melt Coolability and Concrete Interaction (MCCI) co-operative project in two phases in order to investigate ex-vessel melt coolability an...

The present document deals with scaling in nuclear-system thermal hydraulics (SYS TH), including the connection with nuclear-reactor safety technology (NST). Scaling has constituted “an issue” since ...

Probabilistic Structural Integrity of a Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR) Pressure Vessel (PROSIR ) was a round robin exercise with the primary objective to issue some recommendations of best practices...

Chemical hazards are an important subject for Fuel Cycle facilities, including various chemical processes and substances such as explosions and healthy risks. On 17-18 April 2018, the Nuclear Energy ...

The objective of the Post-BEMUSE Reflood Model Input Uncertainty Methods (PREMIUM) benchmark is to progress on the issue of the quantification of the uncertainty of the physical models in system ther...

The overall objective of the THAI-2 project is to address open questions concerning the behaviour of hydrogen, iodine and aerosols in the containment of water-cooled reactors during design-basis or s...

Reactivity-initiated accident (RIA) fuel rod codes have been developed for a significant period of time and validated against their own available database. However, the high complexity of the scenari...

Reactivity-initiated accident (RIA) fuel rod codes have been developed for a significant period of time and validated against their own available database. However, the high complexity of the scenari...

The workshop objectives relative to reviewing and discussing the state-of-the-art knowledge of iodine and ruthenium behaviour in NPP accidents gained through research projects and progress made in th...

Single-phase computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is used more and more for design and safety issues related to light-water reactor (LWR) thermal hydraulics. Over the past ten years, the Working Group ...

Criticality safety is an integral component of ensuring the continued safe operation of current reactor and fuel cycle facilities, as well as addressing new and interesting challenges that are expect...

The present report summarises the 6th workshop on Computational Fluid Dynamics for Nuclear Reactor Safety Applications (CFD4NRS-6) in the biennial series, supported by the Nuclear Energy Agency Worki...

This report by the Working Group on Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) summarises the first Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) project to address the topic of severe accident management guidance (...

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 ...

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...

The workshop was held in Lucca, Italy on 13-15 April 2016.

The PKL3 Project tests consisted of a programme of experiments intended to, inter alia, understand complex heat transfer mechanisms in the s...

The NEA Advanced Thermal-Hydraulic Test Loop for Accident Simulation (ATLAS) Project is one of the NEA supported joint projects under the auspices and with the support of the NEA. It started from Apr...

This report documents a study performed on a set of common-cause failure (CCF) events for diesel generators. The events were derived from the International CCF Data Exchange (ICDE) database and the s...

For many years, extensive experimental investigations into the system response of pressurised water reactors (PWRs) under accident conditions have been being conducted at the large-scale Primärkreisl...

Management of spent fuel (SF) and high-level waste (HLW) is fundamental to the fuel cycle safety. The original management strategies were established on the basis of limited interim storage periods o...

International Conference on Fatigue of Nuclear Reactor Components on 28 September-1 October 2015 in Seville, Spain.

In this work, a complete algorithm for monitoring fatigue was developed for nuclear...

This is a summary report from the International Conference on Fatigue of Nuclear Reactor Components on 28 September-1 October 2015 in Seville, Spain. Over 90 specialists from 21 countries attended th...

The Metallic Component Margins under High Seismic Loads (MECOS) Project is an international programme organised under an initiative of the NEA. The main objective of the MECOS Project is to quantify ...

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...

It has long been recognised that external hazards can present a potential common cause source of initiating events that could challenge nuclear power plant safety. Modelling of these hazards is a com...

Following the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, many countries began funding research and development on nuclear fuel designs with enhanced accident tolerance (ATFs). ATFs have i...

CSNI Technical Opinion Paper No. 17: Fire Probabilistic Safety Assessments for Nuclear Power Plants: 2019 Update provides an authoritative review of the current status and use of the fire PSA in nucl...

These technical opinion papers represent the consensus of risk analysts and experts in NEA Member countries on the current state of the art in Fire Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA) for nuclear p...

This report presents a study performed on a set of common-cause failure (CCF) events within the International Common-Cause Failure Data Exchange (ICDE) project. The topic of the study was intersystem...

The number of ageing nuclear power plants (NPPs) is increasing in NEA member countries. Accordingly, maintenance programmes, in-service inspection and testing of structures, systems and components im...

One of the major conclusions of this workshop was that simulation of electrical systems has not been adequately discussed at the international level despite the fact that it is used more and more fre...

This is a summary report by the Hydrogen Mitigation Experiments for Reactor Safety (HYMERES) project on the PANDA and MISTRA experiments.

Phase 1 of the Project, between 2013 and 2016, focused on imp...

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 ...

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...

At its annual meeting in December 1999, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) issued a recommendation to set up an international collaborative project in the field of thermal-hy...

The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) workshop on “Seismic Input Motions Incorporating Recent Geological Studies” was held in Tsukuba, Japan on 15-17 November 2004, and was host...

The Third International Conference on Fatigue of Reactor Components held in Seville, Spain on 3-6 October 2004 was co-organised by the EPRI, the US NRC and the OECD NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuc...

In the face of severe accident scenarios with melted core material, such as those that occurred at Three Mile Island-2 in 1979 and at Fukushima Daiichi in 2011, the integrity assessment of primary ci...

This is a companion document to the final report of the COSSAL project. It includes appendices which address participant responses to a questionnaire, the data of the problem statement on the large-s...

The SERENA Project Integration Report summarises the outcome of a broad range of activities conducted in the framework of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Steam Explosion Resolution for Nuclear A...

The objective of the Post-BEMUSE Reflood Model Input Uncertainty Methods (PREMIUM) Benchmark is to progress on the issue of the quantification of the uncertainty of the physical models in system ther...

This document is an extension of the NEA/SEN/SIN/AMA(2006)2 report produced by the Writing Group 3 on the extension of CFD to two-phase flow safety problems, which was formed following the recommen...

Following recommendations made at an exploratory meeting of experts to define an action plan on the application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) codes to nuclear reactor safety (NRS) problems, h...

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, ...

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...

At the 14th plenary meeting of the Working Group on Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA), a proposal for a status paper on hydrogen generation, transport and mitigation under severe accident ...

The main objectives of this status report on FCVSs in OECD countries, as defined by the Working Group on Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA), were to: compile the status on the implementatio...

The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) approved in December 2008 a proposal of the Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) to conduct a round ...

A round robin exercise (RRE) on Improving the Robustness Assessments Methodologies for Structures Impacted by Missiles (IRIS-2012) was instituted jointly by IRSN, France and CNSC, Canada based on exp...

Following the CFD4NRS workshops held in Garching, Germany (September 2006), Grenoble, France (September 2008) and Washington D.C., USA (September 2010), this workshop, held in Daejeon, Korea on 10-12...

This report initially provides a brief overview of the main features of a PWR, BWR, CANDU and VVER reactors. It also provides an overview of the ex-vessel corium retention (core catcher) and a genera...

This NEA WGIAGE workshop was held in Prague, Czech Republic on17-19 September 2013, with the objective to present and discuss the state-of-the-art techniques for the integrity assessment of concrete ...

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 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...

In the light of the TEPCO Fukushima accident, this report documents a study performed on a set of common-cause failure (CCF) events due to external factors, meaning that not only storms and hurricane...

The workshop took place in Brugg, Switzerland on 24-26 February 2014. It was conducted with participation of a number of invited key speakers from academic research and a range of industries, includi...

This workshop, held in Pavia, Italy on 4-6 February 2015, was the fourth in a series of NEA meetings (Tokyo, Japan, August 1999, Jeju, Korea, November 2006, Lyon, France, April 2008), dedicated to pr...

The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Risk Assessment (WGRISK) (formerly PWG5) established in 1996 a Task Group to review the status and maturity of methods use...

This report was written by members of the Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) of the NEA, and the members of the metal subgroup were responsible for developing...

This report documents a study performed on a set of ICDE events related to heat exchangers. The events studied here had been collected in the ICDE database. Organisations from Canada, Germany, Japan,...

Due to the potential safety significance of HEAF events the NEA initiated a project to provide an in-depth investigation on such events in NEA member states. The general objective of the study was to...

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...

The Operating Plan describes CSNI responsibility and organisation, overall scope of work and working methods, and is supplemented by the so-called CSNI Activity Report, which contains a description o...

In 1998, the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) issued a report on future nuclear regulatory challenges which discussed the potential erosion of safety margins as an area for further r...

The OECD/NEA-Vattenfall T-Junction Benchmark was initiated to test the ability of state-of-the-art computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes to predict the important parameters affecting high-cycle th...

Two subjects – stress corrosion cracking (SCC) and degradation of cable insulation – were selected as the focus of the SCC and Cable Ageing Project (SCAP) due to their relevance for plant ageing asse...

The idea of a benchmark study on risk-informed in-service inspection (RI-ISI) was initially developed within a subgroup of the ENIQ Task Group on Risk. The preliminary JRC project proposal was endors...

In 2007, the NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) completed a study on Nuclear Safety Research in OECD Countries: Support Facilities for Existing and Advanced Reactors (SFEAR) ...

Severe accident management guidelines (SAMGs) increase focus on containment integrity after some progression in the course of a severe accident. This change in priorities is made according to criteri...

A joint workshop of the Working Group on the Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) and the Working Group on Risk Assessment (WGRISK) on implementation of severe accident management (SAM) measu...

A joint workshop of the Working Group on the Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) and the Working Group on Risk Assessment (WGRISK) on implementation of severe accident management (SAM) measu...

The Task on the Core Exit Temperature (CET) thermocouple effectiveness in Accident Management (AM) was initiated based on a discussion held by the NEA’s Committe on the Safety of Nuclear Installation...

An NEA specialists’ meeting “Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to Effective Consideration of Human and Organisational Factors in Event Analysis and Root Cause Analysis” was held in Paris, France on...

Several OECD member countries agreed to establish the OECD/NEA Piping Failure Data Exchange Project (OPDE) to encourage multilateral co-operation in the collection and analysis of data relating to de...

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...

Structural integrity of piping systems is important for safety and operability of nuclear plants. In recognition of this, information on degradation and failure of piping components and systems is co...

This third topical report is concerned with the effectiveness of pressure boundary component reliability and integrity management (RIM). Specifically, this report addresses operating experience insig...

This Topical Report from the Component Operational Experience, Degradation and Ageing Programme (CODAP) addresses operating experience insights on two types of piping systems that have the following ...

The Component Operational Experience, Degradation & Ageing Programme (CODAP) Topical Report on FAC of Carbon Steel and Low Alloy Steel Piping includes a primer on the environmental and operational fa...

CODAP is the continuation of the 2002-2011 “OECD/NEA Pipe Failure Data Exchange Project” (OPDE) and the work by the Stress Corrosion Cracking Working Group of the 2006–2010 “OECD/NEA SCC and Cable Ag...

The investigation conducted in the last 15 years on different aspects of Source Term worldwide, and particularly in the context of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in the form of projects and the Work...

One of the key areas in fuel safety is the analysis of fuel behaviour under reactivity-initiated accident conditions. Reactivity-initiated accident fuel rod codes have been developed for a significan...