In 1986, a working group of the NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations issued a state-of-the-art report on water reactor fuel behaviour in design-basis accident (DBA) conditions. The re...

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...

The overall objective of the international OECD programme SERENA is to obtain convergence on the understanding of fuel-coolant interaction (FCI) processes and energetics, as well as on method(s) for ...

The Special Expert Group on Fuel Safety Margins (SEGFSM) was established by the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) with the objective to advance the current understanding and to ...

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...

^{View of the ATLAS experimental loop. KAERI, Korea}

The Advanced Thermal-hydraulic Test Loop for Accident Simulation (ATLAS) Project was referenced in The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident...

A set of fuel-related safety criteria was presented – along with both the rationale for having such criteria and possible new design and operational issues which could have an effect on them – in the...

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....

The Preparatory Study on Analysis of Fuel Debris (PreADES) project was proposed as a near-term project by the Senior Expert Group on Safety Research Opportunities Post-Fukushima (SAREF).

PreADES was ...

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 ...