The Thermochemical Database (TDB) Project develops a reference database of chemical thermodynamic values for elements and compounds relevant to the safety of radioactive waste repositories and vital ...

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...

STEM phases

First phase (2011-2015)

The STEM Project was initiated with a first phase in 2011 to improve the general ...

The experimental investigations carried out in the frame of the THAI (2007-09) and THAI-2 (2011-14) projects contributed significantly to hydrogen and fission-product-related issues in a water-cooled...

The acronym PRISME comes from the French phrase propagation d’un incendie pour des scénarios multi-locaux élémentaires, which in English can be translated as "fire propagation in elementary, multi-ro...

The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Task Group on Advanced Reactor Experimental Facilities (TAREF) was established in 2007 and issued a report on the experimental facilities f...

The NEA Behaviour of Iodine Project (BIP) was created to provide separate effects and modelling studies of iodine behaviour in a nuclear reactor containment building following a severe accident. This...

HYMERES phases

First phase (2013-2016)

The main objective of the first phase of the Hydro...

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 ...