This report established by the NEA Working Group on Fuel Safety (WGFS) of the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) compiles the state-of-the-art knowledge on fuel behaviour in loss...

Panda facility under construction. Photo courtesy of the Paul Scherrer Institute

HYMERES phases

First phase (2013-2016)

The main objective of the first phase of the Hydrogen Mitigation Experiments fo...

NEA CFD-Task Group members discussed ongoing activities at a meeting hosted on 11-12 July 2024.

NEA's ETHARINUS joint project held a meeting of its programme review group on 27-28 June 2024 in Erlangen, Germany.

Project members also launched the next phase.

Participants from 14 organisations, representing 11 countries, performed the benchmark exercise. Each participant provided a high-level summary of the leak-before-break (LBB) requirements in their co...

CSNI and CNRA meetings took place on 4-7 June.

To mark the occassion, an event was organised in Loen, Norway.

This report aims to establish the status of current 3D capabilities in T/H system codes, covering all aspects and limitations, including the equations and simplifications considered, the time and spa...