Photo of CEA VITI facility

The COrium Properties for reactor Simulation and uncertainties (COPS) project began in April 2024 its five-year programme to investigate the thermo-physical properties of c...

View of Dragon Reactor. Photo: AEA Technology.

In 1959, twelve OECD countries began the Dragon Reactor Experiment (DRE) to build a reactor at Winfrith in Dorset, United Kingdom. The Dragon was the fi...

PKL facility. Photo: FRAMATOME, Germany

The Experimental Thermal Hydraulics for Analysis, Research and Innovations in Nuclear Safety (ETHARINUS) project was launched in October 2020 to address knowle...

CHIP experimental facility to study fission product transport and deposition in the primary circuit. Photo: ASNR

Following several years of experimental research on source term analysis conducted und...

The Fire Incidents Records Exchange (FIRE) Project started in 2002 and phase 7 of the project began in 2023 for a duration of three years, with 14 countries currently participating. The main purpose ...

Electrical cable fire test, IRSN.

The NEA PRISME project addressed in a series of 3 phases from 2006 till 2022 fire risk research. Operating experience shows that fire is one of the highest risks i...

Scheme of the DIVA Facility, ASNR

Fire is a significant contributor to overall core damage frequency for both new and old nuclear reactor designs. Furthermore, it may severely affect plant safety i...

Appearance of Unit 1 and 2 reactor buildings at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (June 2022). Photo: Japan Nuclear Regulation Authority

The FACE projec...

              Halden Hammlab research facility for human factor research.

The NEA Halden HTO Project is a continuation of Man-Technology-Organisation (MTO) research carried out for more than 40 years as part of t...

The Halden Reactor Project has been in operation at the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) in Norway since 1958 and is the oldest NEA joint project. It brings together a large international techni...