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 ...

This activity of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) is entitled “Asses...

The Symposium is free of charge for all participants and is scheduled to take place in person at ONR’s offices near Liverpool in the United Kingdom. However, if coronavirus restrictions on travel or ...

This report provides descriptions of the current status of PSA programmes in member countries; including basic background information, guidelines, various PSA applications, major results in recent st...

The Halden Reactor Project has been in operation since 1958 and is the oldest NEA joint project. It brings together an important international technical network in the area of nuclear safety ranging ...

The Working Group supports improved uses of Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA) in risk-informed regulation and safety management through the analysis of results and the development of perspectives...

This document is the second in a series of CSNI Working Group on Operating Experience (WGOE) technical notes on recent events in nuclear power plants (NPPs). The purpose is to transmit WGOE views to ...

Several member countries of the Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD/NEA) established the International Common-Cause Failure Data Exchange Project...

This revised document was reviewed and endorsed in September 2003 by the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on the Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA), whi...

The “Current Severe Accident Research Facilities and Projects” list was compiled by the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations Working (CSNI) Group on the Analysis and Management of Acciden...

The overall objective of the international OECD programme SERENA is to obtain convergence on the understanding of fuel-coolant interaction (FCI) processes and energetics, as well as on method(s) for ...

The OECD-NEA/RILEM workshop on the “Use and Performance of Concrete in Nuclear Power Plant Fuel Cycle Facilities”, conducted based on a proposal of the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installation...

The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) workshop on “International Development and Co-operation on Risk-Informed In-Service (RI-ISI) and Non-destructive Testing (NDT) Qualificatio...

In the report “Nuclear Safety Research in OECD Countries: Summary Report of Major Facilities and Programmes at Risk“ published by the NEA/CSNI Senior Group of Experts on Nuclear Safety Research Facil...

Major nuclear safety research facilities and programmes are facing increasing budgetary constraints, and in many cases are being closed or terminated. This report identifies major facilities of vital...

At the Committe on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) meeting of June 2002, a proposal for an International Standard Problem on containment integrity (ISP 48) based on the NRC/NUPEC/Sandia te...

The December 2000 meeting of the NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) accepted a proposal to set up a task group to prepare a report describing research efforts related to wire...

The main objective of ISP exercises is to increase confidence in the validity and accuracy of the tools that are used in assessing the safety of nuclear installations. The secondary objective is to e...

The Nuclear Energy Agency Committe on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) addressed the issue of modifications at the workshop “Modifications at Nuclear Power Plants – Operating Experience, Sa...