NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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29 July 2015
OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and US Nuclear Regulatory Commission PWR MOX/UO2 Core Transient Benchmark Final Specifications, Revision 2 (2003)
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9 October 2020
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13 April 2010
University of Pisa, Italy
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9 November 2020
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28 April 2009
Pennsylvania State University (PSU), United States
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9 November 2020
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12 April 2011
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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9 November 2020
In the field of coupled neutronics/thermal-hydraulics computation there is a need to enhance scientific knowledge in order to develop advanced modelling techniques for new nuclear technologies and co...
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21 December 2006
Conditions for release, rules and restrictions applying to the specifications of the Fluoride Salt-Cooled High-Temperature Reactor (FHR) Benchmark
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17 November 2020
WPEC Subgroup 47 (SG47) works in close coordination with other NEA activities such as WPRS Expert Group on Radiation Transport and Shielding (EGRTS), WPEC SG45, SG46, Collaborative International Eval...
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10 March 2020
The page describes the NEA's work on computing radiation dose and modelling of radiation-induced degradation of reactor components.
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30 September 2020
Under the guidance of the Working Party on Scientific Issues of Reactor Systems (WPRS), the expert group performed specific tasks associated with radiation transport and shielding aspects of current ...
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3 March 2020
In the field of coupled neutronics/thermal-hydraulics computation there is a need to enhance scientific knowledge in order to develop advanced modelling techniques for new nuclear technologies and co...
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30 June 2006
In the field of coupled neutronics/thermal-hydraulics computation there is a need to enhance scientific knowledge in order to develop advanced modelling techniques for new nuclear technologies and co...
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31 December 2003
The Benchmark for Uncertainty Analysis in Best-Estimate Modelling (UAM) for Design, Operation and Safety Analysis of Light Water Reactors (LWRs) is an international high-visibility benchmark for unce...
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30 September 2020
This benchmark is based on a well-defined problem concerning a pressurised water reactor (PWR) main steam line break, which may occur as a consequence of the rupture of one steam line upstream of the...
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19 November 2003
The benchmark is based on a well-defined problem concerning a PWR main steam line break, which may occur as a consequence of the rupture of one steam line upstream of the main steam isolation valves....
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22 December 2000
This benchmark is based on a well-defined problem concerning a pressurised water reactor (PWR) main steam line break, which may occur as a consequence of the rupture of one steam line upstream of the...
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22 November 2002
Conditions for release, rules and restrictions applying to the Kalinin Unit 3 (Kalinin-3) Transient Benchmark caused by the switching-off of one of the four operating main circulation pumps (MCPs) at...
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30 September 2020
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29 April 2006
Pisa, Italy
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18 December 2020
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3 June 2016
Villigen, Switzerland
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18 December 2020
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University Park/State College, Pennsylvania, United States
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18 December 2020
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17 May 2019
Oak Ridge, United States
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18 December 2020
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17 May 2018
Lucca, Italy
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18 December 2020
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12 May 2017
Erlangen, Germany
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18 December 2020
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22 May 2015
Madrid, Spain
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18 December 2020
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11 May 2012
Karlsruhe, Germany
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18 December 2020
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15 April 2011
Stockholm, Sweden
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18 December 2020
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15 April 2010
Pisa, Italy
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18 December 2020
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4 April 2008
Garching, Germany
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18 December 2020
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11 May 2007
Paris, France
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18 December 2020
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16 May 2014
Garching, Germany
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21 December 2020
3-D Radiation Transport benchmarks dealt with scientific issues in the field of deterministic and stochastic methods and computer codes relative to three dimensional (3-D) radiation transport.
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30 September 2020
Neutron noise analysis can be defined as the direct measurement of the kinetics of a nuclear core. This page describes some of the NEA's previous activities on neutron noise analysis in nuclear power...
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26 July 2021
The expert group provided advice to the Working Party on Scientific Issues of Reactor Systems (WPRS) on the scientific development needs (data and methods, validation experiments, scenario studies) o...
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27 October 2021
The expert group dealt with the activities associated with the certification of experimental data and benchmark models along with establishing the processes and procedures for using the data and benc...
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23 November 2021
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)18
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Workshop on Structural Reliability Evaluation and Mechanical Probabilistic Approaches of NPP Components was held in Lyon, France on 25-27 S...
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20 December 2021
NEA/CSNI/R(2005)2
At the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) meeting of June 2002, a proposal for a benchmark on thermal fatigue in fluid mixing areas based on the test performed by the Commissaria...
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1 August 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)3
This Phase II exercise was the first benchmarking of severe accident codes promoted by NEA in almost 20 years. The objective of the exercise was to perform a code benchmark on a well-defined plant (s...
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3 August 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2010)6
The NEA Working Group on Fuel Safety (WGFS) is tasked with advancing understanding of fuel safety issues by assessing the technical basis for current safety criteria and their applicability to high b...
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15 November 2010
NEA/CSNI/R(2011)8
In December 2008, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) approved a proposal of the Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) to conduct a round...
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19 January 2012
Understanding the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is important for safe and timely decommissioning of the reactors. This objective, together with the development of better compu...
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28 September 2021
The aim of the benchmark is to improve understanding and modelling of pellet-cladding mechanical interaction (PCMI) amongst NEA member organisations. This is achieved by comparing PCMI predictions of...
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23 March 2022
Collected sources of primary documentation for reactor physics benchmarks.
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14 April 2022
The International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) released the first version of the Database for the International Handbook of Evaluated Criticality Safety Benchmark Experime...
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25 April 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2010)13
The idea of a benchmark study on risk-informed in-service inspection (RI-ISI) was initially developed within a subgroup of the ENIQ Task Group on Risk. The preliminary JRC project proposal was endors...
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26 January 2011
NEA/CSNI/R(2011)5
The OECD/NEA-Vattenfall T-Junction Benchmark was initiated to test the ability of state-of-the-art computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes to predict the important parameters affecting high-cycle th...
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12 May 2011
NEA/CSNI/R(2015)18
In 2012, following a proposal from Japan, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) decided to initiate a joint project to conduct a study of the accident progression for the Fukush...
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1 March 2015
NEA/CSNI/R(2015)19
The objective of this joint WGAMA-WPNEM activity was to benchmark software tools used to estimate consequences of accidents at nuclear facilities. Two aspects of accident consequences were considered...
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1 January 2016
NEA/CSNI/R(2014)5/ADD1
A round robin exercise (RRE) on Improving the Robustness Assessments Methodologies for Structures Impacted by Missiles (IRIS-2012) was instituted jointly by IRSN, France and CNSC, Canada based on exp...
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30 June 2014
NEA/CSNI/R(2014)5
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) approved in December 2008 a proposal of the Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) to conduct a round ...
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27 August 2014
NEA/CSNI/R(2014)14
The objective of the Post-BEMUSE Reflood Model Input Uncertainty Methods (PREMIUM) Benchmark is to progress on the issue of the quantification of the uncertainty of the physical models in system ther...
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23 February 2015