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...

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...

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...

Image at melt distribution and its contour at MBC (KAERI).

The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) initiated a co...

Multi-compartment THAI+ test facility, Becker Technologies GmbH.

In the wake of the OECD/NEA THAI project, conducted in three phases from 2007 until 2019, a new project, THAI Experiments on Mitigat...

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...

Irradiation Vessel with Coupons, CNL

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

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...

Scheme of the DIVA Facility, IRSN

The Fire Risk Assessment through Innovative Research Project is a follow-up of the PRISME project series which addresses new fire scenarios and new topics of inter...

A cabinet containing copper bus before the HEAF test (left) and after the test(right). Source: NRC

Massive electrical discharges, referred to as high energy arcing faults (HEAF), have occurred in nuc...

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...

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...

Investigation for damage condition and radiation dose in Unit 3 at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (December 2019). Photo: Japan Nuclear Regulation Au...

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...

Units 1 and 2 End of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (4^th October, 2011). Photo: Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings

The Benchmark Study of the Acci...

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

Following several years of experimental research in the field of source terms analysis...