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...
Since its inception in 2002, the operating experience with thermal fatigue mechanisms has been an intrinsic aspect of the technical scope of CODAP, which is a joint database project within the Commit...
This report summarises the work done for the activity: “Benchmark analysis on the eXtended Finite Element Method (X-FEM) calculation technology in its use to evaluate the fracture mechanics stress in...
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...
The main mission of the Working Group on Fuel Safety (WGFS) is to advance the current understanding and address cross-cutting issues related to fuel behaviour in accident conditions, including work o...
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 Programme Review Group is established to perform a programme quality review function within the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) and to provide scientific assistance to the...
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...
In the current project, a new systematic approach has been developed, called SAPIUM (systematic approach for input uncertainty quantification methodology) for transparent and rigorous model IUQ. This...
Around 50 delegates from 22 countries and 2 international organisations gathered on 6-7 June 2023 for the 73rd CSNI meeting.
Within the context of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Advanced Thermal-hydraulic Test Loop for Accident Simulation (ATLAS) project, a series of tests were performed to resolve key thermal-hydraulic s...
The Symposium is free of charge for all participants and is scheduled to take place in person at the ONR’s offices near Liverpool in the United Kingdom.
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 main mission of the Working Group on External Events (WGEV) is to improve the understanding and treatment of external hazards that would support the continued safety performance of nuclear instal...
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...
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.
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...
The OECD NEA RASPLAV Project provided experiments with prototypical material and data on the behavior of molten core material (corium) in the reactor pressure vessel lower head during a severe accide...
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 ...