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21 September 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2005)7
At the Committee 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 t...
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11 October 2005
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31 October 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2005)10
The OECD/NEA Committee on Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) addressed the issue of modifications at a workshop on “Modifications at Nuclear Power Plants – Operating Experience, Safety Significan...
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1 December 2005
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/CSNI/R(2006)1
The Committee on Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Special Experts’ Group on Human and Organisational Factors (SEGHOF) was requested by the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Actions (CNRA) to exam...
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16 March 2006
NEA/CSNI/R(2006)2
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...
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19 June 2006
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17 August 2006
NEA/CSNI/R(2006)6
The purpose of this report is to present in a concise form how some safety matters associated with currently operating light water reactors have been addressed. The issues discussed in this report ar...
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2 November 2006
NEA/CSNI/R(2006)5
This document is intended to provide regulators, their technical support organisations and industry with a concise review of existing fuel experimental data at reactivity-initiated accident (RIA) and...
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28 November 2006
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)3
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is to an increasing extent being adopted in nuclear reactor safety analyses as a tool that enables specific safety relevant phenomena occurring in the reactor coola...
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1 January 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)6
This report provides an overview of experimental facilities that can be used to address nuclear safety research issues in OECD member countries, and identifies priorities for organising international...
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1 January 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)9
In 1998, the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) issued a report on Future Nuclear Regulatory Challenges. This report discussed the potential erosion of safety margins as an area for fu...
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1 January 2007
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19 February 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)1
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency has long recognised the importance of iodine behaviour and has organised workshops and international standard problems on the subject. In the meantime, experimental and...
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23 February 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2006)7
Due to the importance of human and organisational performance on nuclear plant maintenance, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Special Experts’ Group on Human and Organisatio...
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5 April 2007
This technical opinion paper represents the consensus of risk analysts in NEA member countries on the current state of the art of level-2 probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) and its applications in...
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20 April 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)5
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...
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15 May 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2006)8
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI), at its meeting in June 2003, agreed to conduct a survey to collect information that help to identify common needs and area of potential co...
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24 May 2007
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
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
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)11
The Steam Explosion Resolution for Nuclear Applications (SERENA) programme stems from concerns expressed by the Senior Group of Experts on Nuclear Safety Research Facilities and Programmes (SESAR/FAP...
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17 September 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)4
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 Sa...
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11 October 2007
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12 October 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)8
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Human and Oganisational Factors (WGHOF) and the Halden Reactor Project (HRP) hosted a joint workshop titled “Future Contro...
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15 October 2007
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14 November 2007
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15 November 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)3
At their meeting of December 2006, the NEA Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) and the NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) agreed to hold a workshop on the Role ...
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1 January 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)1
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...
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25 January 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)13
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”,...
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28 January 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)17
At the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) meeting in June 2003, a proposal of the CSNI Working Group on the Integrity and Ageing (WGIAGE) to examine the differences in approach b...
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1 February 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(1994)24/VOL II
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14 March 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)7/REV1
The Operating Plan describes the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) responsibility and organisation, overall scope of work and working methods, and is supplemented by the so-call...
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11 April 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)8
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...
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1 July 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)7
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) has as a general mandate to advance the current understanding o...
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17 July 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)10
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...
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1 August 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)2
The OECD-IAEA Paks Fuel Project was established in 2005 as a joint project between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). The IAEA provided financial ...
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18 September 2008
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3 October 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)6/VOL1
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...
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26 November 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)6/VOL2
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...
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26 November 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)6/VOL3
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...
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26 November 2008
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16 December 2008
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17 December 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)14
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) has as a general mandate to advance the current understanding o...
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17 December 2008
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18 December 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)7
This technical opinion paper represents the consensus of the Committe on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Human and Organisational Factors (WGHOF) on the state of research ...
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1 January 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)8
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) established the Task Group on Advanced Reactor Experimental Facilities (TAREF) in 2008 with the objective of providing an overview of facil...
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1 January 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)15
The present report has been prepared by the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Fuel Safety (WGFS) and covers the following technical aspects:
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1 January 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)11
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...
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1 January 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)12
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...
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1 January 2009