Within the framework of the NEA Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy's Working Group 3, Rethinking the relationship between nuclear energy and society, the NEA, in co-ope...

The next annual Benchmarks Workshops of the Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS) will be hosted by the Department of Engineering of the University of ...

Expert Group on Physics of Reactor Systems (EGPRS) Benchmark for reactor pressure vessel (RPV) fluence simulations based on TVA Watts Bar Unit 1

Expertise in fuel‑cycle physics and chemistry remains essential for deploying advanced reactor systems, especially as many countries intensify their energy‑transition efforts.

TVA Watts Bar Unit 1 Multi-Physics Benchmark

DOI: 10.1787/9789264181526-en

Workshop Proceedings, Stockholm, Sweden, 4-5 October 1999

The opening of energy markets is leading to increased competition, and the nuclear power industry must adapt if ...

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Over the last 50 years particle accelerators have evolved from simple devices to powerful machines, and will continue to have an important impact on research, technology and ...

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Knowledge of basic nuclear physics data is essential for the modelling and safe operation of all types of nuclear facilities. The de facto international standard format, Evaluated...

DOI: 10.1787/g2gh1c43-en

ISBN-13: 9789264143760

Proceedings of a Seminar, Saclay, France, 27-29 April 1993

DOI: 10.1787/g2gh1c51-en

ISBN-13: 9789264145276

Proceedings of an NEA/Paul Scherrer Institute Workshop Bad Zurzach, Switzerland, 14-16 September 1994

DOI: 10.1787/g2gh1c46-en

ISBN-13: 9789264144200

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Many of the failures that occur in nuclear fuel rods in light water reactors around the world are caused by the phenomenon of mechanical interaction between pellets and cladding (...

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The goal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety (WPNCS) Subgroup on Experimental Needs for Criticality Safety Purposes (SG-5) was to highli...

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The Task Force on Dose Rate Calculations for Irradiated Fuel Assembly was launched in 2015 to assess code predictions of dose rates from bare spent fuel assemblies and to benchmar...

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Knowledge of basic nuclear physics data is essential for the modelling and safe operation of all types of nuclear facilities. The de facto international standard format, Evaluated...

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There is significant international interest in the effects of temperature on criticality safety evaluations. Improved access to nuclear data, notably thermal scattering data S(α,β...

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Many of the failures that occur in nuclear fuel rods in light water reactors around the world are caused by the phenomenon of mechanical interaction between pellets and cladding (...

DOI: 10.1787/9789264172999-en

ISBN-13: 9789264172999, 9789264170254

Workshop Proceedings, Costa da Caparica, Portugal, 15-17 September 1998

The use of ion beams in nuclear research is well established...

DOI: 10.1787/9789264172036-en

ISBN-13: 9789264172036, 9789264169579

Proper heat removal from the fuel is essential for the safe operation of nuclear reactors used for electricity production. As nucle...

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DOI: 10.1787/9789264173385-en

ISBN-13: 9789264173385, 9789264170506

Workshop Proceedings, Paris, France, 28-30 September 1998

Following recent disarmament agreements, the Russian Federation and the US...

The United Kingdom has become the latest country to join the NEA Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework, alongside 13 other countries that are co-operating to train the next genera...

The NEA Working Group on New Technology (WGNT) is organising a hybrid international workshop on 3-5 June 2025. The workshop will be hosted at the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission headquarters.

Members of the QUENCH-II joint aim to investigate the behavior of accident tolerant fuel (ATF) claddings in design basis accidents and beyond design basis accidents scenarios.

The NEA organised the annual technical review group and task force meetings of key experimental data evaluation and preservation projects.

The NEA launched the Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework in partnership with its member countries to help address important gaps in nuclear skills capacity building, knowledge t...

The Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS) studies the reactor physics, thermal hydraulics, radiation transport and shielding, and multiphysics aspects ...

Image: Microscopic examination of U-bearing particles collected at Fukushima-Daiichi, JAEA

TCOFF Phases

First Phase (2017-2020)

The Thermodynamic Characterisation of Fuel Debris and Fission Products ...

The NEA will organise the third International School on Simulation of Nuclear Reactor Systems (SINUS) on the topic of Reactor single- and multi-physics simulations based on Light Water Reactor (LWR) ...

In 2022, the WPRS Expert Group on Thermal Hydraulics and Mechanics (EGTHM) mandated a new benchmark on high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGR) using high-temperature test facility (HTTF) data an...

The 11th NEA Expert Group on Reactor Coolants and Components Technology (EGCoCoT) meeting was held in Paris on 22-23 April 2025.

The project held Nuclear Data Week to discuss progress of the ongoing activities.

Project members met in France and online to discuss the ongoing and future activities.

https://www.oecd-nea.org/tools/ierequest/start/package/NEA-1939%2501The Shielding Integral Benchmark Archive and Database (SINBAD) database contains compilations for more than 100 reactor shielding, ...

The NEA International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP), International Reactor Physics Experiments Evaluation Project (IRPhEP), International Assay Data of Spent Nuclear Fuel D...

Efforts to enhance the safety, sustainability and economic efficiency of nuclear energy are driving international research into advanced nuclear fuel cycles. A key component of these efforts is parti...

To ensure reliable modelling of neutron physics within a state-of-the-art transient code, the neutron kinetics part of such a code should be based on the full-scale calculation of the space-time neu...

Image: QUENCH facility at KIT. Court. KIT. 

The purpose of the QUENCH-ATF project is to investigate the chemical, mechanical and thermal-hydraulics behaviour of ATF claddings in Design Basis Accident...

The NEA Second Framework for Irradiation Experiments (FIDES-II) supports the fuel and material experimental needs of nuclear safety regulators, technical support organisations, research institutions ...