The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) mandated the preparation of a SOAR with four main objectives:

• to assess the status of existing experimental data and analytical capabiliti...

The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Risk Assessment (WGRISK) initiated a task to review the methods for risk analysis of off-site external events other than e...

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...

This report documents the proceedings of a Committe on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) workshop on risk-informed piping integrity management. Hosted by the Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear (CS...

Following the recommendations of a previous meeting held in Jeju, Korea on 6-8 November 2006, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) approved a proposal of the Working Group on I...

The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) has as a general mandate to advance the current understanding o...

During the mid 1990s a task group was formed within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development/Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD/NEA) to exchange information on events involving computer-ba...

The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Human and Organisational Factors (WGHOF) is tasked to improve the current understanding of human and organisational perfor...

The NEA Working Group on Human and Organisational Factors (WGHOF) is tasked to improve the current understanding of human and organisational performance and the way in which this impacts upon nuclear...

Regulatory bodies are taking a growing interest in the issue of safety culture, and several are actively working to develop and implement approaches to maintaining oversight of licensee safety cultur...

One of the key areas of uncertainty in current probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) involves human reliability analysis (HRA). The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Gro...

The international radiological protection community performed a major status review of the situation around the damaged Chernobyl reactor on the 10-year anniversary of the accident. Since then, studi...

To mark the tenth anniversary of the Chernobyl accident, the NEA Committee on Radiation Protection and Public Health published a concise report reviewing the current knowledge of the serious impacts ...

This report provides a description of the state-of-the-art in the development and use of risk monitors at nuclear power plants in member states. The work was carried out jointly by the International ...

At the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) meeting of June 2002, a proposal for a benchmark on thermal fatigue in fluid mixing areas based on the test performed by the Commissaria...

This document is the third in a series of the NEA’s Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Operating Experience (WGOE) technical notes on nuclear power plant (NPP) r...

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...

In December 2000, the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) and the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) agreed to prepare a state-of-the art report addressing the pres...

At the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) meeting in June 2002, the proposal for an International Standard Problem on containment integrity (ISP 48) based on the NRC/NUPEC/Sandia...