NEA/CSNI/R(2017)4
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...
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19 January 2017
NEA/CSNI/R(2018)5
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...
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26 September 2018
Seismic probabilistic safety assessment (SPSA) is a systematic method for examining and evaluating the risk from earthquake-initiated accidents. The significant advances in the area of SPSA since the...
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27 September 2021
NEA/CSNI/R(2015)17
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...
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20 October 2015
NEA/CSNI/R(2015)11
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,...
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1 April 2013
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15 March 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)3
When looking for a validation experiment for CFD application to reactor simulation for either design or safety studies, it appears that available data often suffer from a lack of local measurements, ...
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17 February 2022
Experimental facilities in nuclear energy are key to addressing safety issues. The recent loss of some critical infrastructure, from facilities to industry expertise, has therefore become a concern f...
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8 September 2021
NEA/CSNI/R(2011)12
In this document, the general coding guidelines for the OECD NEA ICDE Project (International Common Cause Failure Data Exchange) are presented with explanations and appendices for each analysed compo...
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21 February 2012
NEA/CSNI/R(2010)4
The objective of the NEA’s Working Group on Fuel Cycle Safety (WGFCS) is to advance the understanding for both regulators and operators of relevant aspects of nuclear fuel cycle safety in member coun...
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24 November 2010
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)3
This Phase II exercise was the first benchmarking of severe accident codes promoted by NEA in almost 20 years. The objective of the exercise was to perform a code benchmark on a well-defined plant (s...
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3 August 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2005)1
The TMI-2 accident keeps providing unique full scale data giving opportunities to check the ability of the codes to model overall plant behaviour and to perform many sensitivity and uncertainty calcu...
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10 March 2005
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/RWM/R(2019)6
In July 2016, the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) held a joint workshop to evaluate the current state of the art on operational safety of geological repo...
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30 November 2021
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25 November 2021
NEA/CSNI/R(2004)4
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...
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30 January 2004
NEA/CNRA/R(2019)2
This technical report describes the regulatory perspectives on safety aspects related to the fuel qualification for advanced sodium fast reactors (SFRs) and identifies topics that should be investiga...
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13 September 2021
NEA/CSNI/R(1991)8
Three Mile Island Unit 2 Analysis Exercise Final Report
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1 January 1991
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1 January 1991
NEA/CSNI/R(2013)10
The NEA’s Working Group on Fuel Cycle Safety (WGFCS), in co-operation with the Working Group on Fuel Safety (WGFS), aimed within the current international workshop to advance the understanding within...
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23 January 2014
NEA/CSNI/R(2012)4
The objective of the Working Group on Fuel Cycle Safety (WGFCS) is to advance the understanding for both regulators and operators of relevant aspects of nuclear fuel cycle safety in member countries....
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3 July 2013
The main mission of the Working Group on the Safety of Electrical Systems (WGELEC) is to advance the current understanding and address safety issues related to electrical systems of nuclear installat...
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16 February 2021
Demonstrating the safety of a nuclear facility requires that the consequences of all possible threats be considered, including external hazards such as severe weather, floods and earthquakes.
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18 March 2020
Accident analysis and management focusses on understanding the causes and consequences of an accident at a nuclear facility, and on how to manage an accident through prevention and mitigation.
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17 March 2020
Operating experience is the collection and dissemination of knowledge gained via the operation of nuclear facilities.
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18 March 2020
Inspection practices are the means by which a regulatory body verifies that a holder of a nuclear licence is complying with the conditions of that licence.
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18 March 2020
New reactors are light-water reactors that are in the design or construction phases. Advanced reactors refers to reactors under consideration that are cooled by fluids other than water.
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18 March 2020
It refers to scientific and technical actions taken to address decommissioning technologies, research and development, as well as safety and environmental risk assessment
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25 June 2020
Regulating the long-term safety of geological disposal of radioactive waste poses special challenges due to the very long timescales involved. This report has been prepared to help foster a common un...
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30 October 2007
Nuclear facilities rely on a robust electrical system to power primary and back-up systems required to safely respond to a wide variety of challenging events.
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17 March 2020
Boiling water reactors (BWRs) use light water as a coolant and a moderator. This water is converted to steam in the core and then passes through a turbine.
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18 March 2020
Digital instrumentation and control equipment (DI&C) transmits information in ones and zeros, and provides a number of advantages in nuclear safety.
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18 March 2020
Codes and standards are technical positions that govern specific activities such as welding, fabrication, testing and non-destructive examination, and are crucial to nuclear safety operations.
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18 March 2020
Reactor components and structures degrade by exposure to heat, environmental conditions and radiation. It is vital to understand ageing processes to ensure that safety criteria continue to be met.
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18 March 2020
Risk assessments are used to determine the probability of harmful events at a nuclear plant. They are valuable for determining the relative benefit and better selection of safety enhancements.
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17 March 2020
The fuel for a nuclear reactor is both the source of the fission energy that is used to produce electricity and the source of radioactive material during an accident.
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18 March 2020
The facilities associated with nuclear fuel from mining to fabrication to post-irradiation management have some specific safety concerns that are different from those of nuclear reactors.
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18 March 2020
The Expert Group on Occupational Exposure (EGOE) will build on operational and regulatory experience in NEA member countries, focusing on the use of existing databases to identify where and how opera...
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12 March 2020
Regulating the long-term safety of geological disposal of radioactive waste is a key part of making progress on the radioactive waste management issue. A survey of member countries has shown that dif...
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10 July 2008
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10 April 2001
NEA/RWM/WPDD(2005)6
The NEA's Working Party on Decommissioning and Dismantling (WPPD) Workshop on Safe, Efficient, and Cost-Effective Decommissioning was held in Rome, Italy on 6-10 September 2004. Its purpose was to en...
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3 November 2005
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1 January 1994
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...
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19 July 2016
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...
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14 December 2011
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...
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27 July 2018
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.
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29 February 2016
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Fuel Cycle Safety (WGFCS) held an international workshop on Operational and Regulatory As...
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19 May 2015
NEA/CSNI/R(2019)3
The ICDE project allows multiple countries to collaborate and exchange CCF data to enhance the quality of risk analyses, which include CCF modelling. Because CCF events are typically rare, most count...
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21 January 2019
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26 April 2001
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15 July 2002