The goal of the project was to provide experimental data relevant for hydraulic and ignition phenomena of prototypic water reactor fuel assemblies. The intended scope of work was defined in an expert...

During a severe accident, the lower head of a reactor pressure vessel (RPV) can be subjected to significant thermal and pressure loads. The lower head has the potential to fail, releasing large amoun...

The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) initiated a co-ordinated programme on Steam Explosion Resolution for Nuclear ...

On 28 March 1979, a partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island unit 2 (TMI-2) reactor occurred at the TMI nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States.

A TMI accident evaluation pr...

During a fuel crud removal operation on the Paks-2 unit on 10 April 2003, several fuel assemblies were severely damaged. The assemblies were being cleaned in a special tank of the Paks Nuclear Power ...

The goals of the Piping Failure Data Exchange (OPDE) Project were to:

• collect and analyse piping failure event data to promote a better understanding of underlying causes, impact on operations and s...

The Stress Corrosion Cracking and Cable Ageing Project (SCAP) lasted four years (2006-2010). The project’s main objectives were to:

• establish two complete databases with regard to major ageing pheno...

In 2006, two subjects, stress corrosion cracking and the degradation of cable insulation were selected as the focus of the Stress Corrosion Cracking and Cable Ageing Project (SCAP). The project ran f...

The SESAR Thermal-hydraulics (SETH) Project began in 2001 and consisted of thermal-hydraulic experiments in support of accident management, which were carried out at facilities identified by the Comm...

The TCOFF project provides a framework for the exchange of technical information on topics related to thermodynamic databases available for modelling the fuel/core degradation process, which include ...