Illustration of the Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory and locations of the in situ experiments planned in each of the three HIP Joint Project task

The Horonobe International Project (HIP) is a...

Panda facility under construction. Photo courtesy of the Paul Scherrer Institute

HYMERES phases

First phase (2013-2016)

The main objective of the first phase of the Hydrogen Mitigation Experiments fo...

Scheme showing the technical scope of NEA ICDE project activities, NEA 

Common-cause failure (CCF) events can significantly affect the availability of safety systems of nuclear power plants. In recog...

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Exploring how innovative nuclear systems require innovative waste management solutions

The new NEA Joint Project on Waste Integration for Small and Adv...

JAEA  High-temperature Engineering Test Reactor Photo: Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)

The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Task Group on Advanced Reactor Experimental Facil...

View looking down onto the LOFT reactor

The Loss-of-fluid Test (LOFT) Research Programme was originally set up by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Part of the programme was later broadened int...

View of the RASPLAV-3 Facility.

The Material Scaling (MASCA) Project was a follow-up of the RASPLAV Project and investigated in-vessel phenomena during a severe accident with core melt. Specifica...

In a core melt accident, if the molten core is not retained in-vessel despite severe accident mitigation actions, the core debris will relocate to the reactor cavity region and interact with the stru...

PAKS Nuclear Power Plant, Hungary.

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 sp...

PANDA vessel assembly (construction phase, 1993), PSI.

The PANDA project is a follow-up of the HYMERES-2 project, and its general objective is to advance the knowledge on the containment of thermal...

Pipe Degradation & Failure as a Function of In-Service Time (Years) at the time of the OPDE project closure

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

• collect and analys...

PAKS control room.

Under an agreement with the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, (JAERI), the NEA supported an international research project with the goal of developing a plant safety monito...

End state of debris in the units 1-3 of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings. Photo: Japan Atomic Energy Agency

The Preparatory Study on Analysis of Fuel D...

PKL facility. Photo: FRAMATOME, Germany

The Primärkreislauf-Versuchsanlage (Primary Coolant Loop Test Facility [PKL]) is a facility owned and operated by Framatome GmbH (formerly AREVA NP) in Erlange...

Scheme of the PSB-VVER facility, EREC

The NEA PSB-VVER project provided unique and useful experimental data for code validation using the PSB-VVER test facility. The PSB-VVER facility is a large-scal...

Image: QUENCH facility at KIT. Court. KIT. 

The purpose of the QUENCH-ATF project is to investigate the chemical, mechanical and thermal-hydraulics behaviour of ATF claddings in Design Basis Accident...