This publication addresses trends and patterns in material degradation as a function of nuclear power plant ageing, which is a key topic in the regulation of ageing management programmes, codes and s...
The Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA), at its June 2006 meeting, agreed to form a Senior-level Expert Group to produce a report called "The Regulatory Goal of Assuring Nuclear Safety"...
In 2006, the CNRA Working Group on Operating Experience (WGOE) began the task of examining national and international operating events databases in order to identify any potential safety issues relat...
The Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) is an international committee created in 1989 to guide the NEA concerning safety in the regulation, licensing and inspection of nuclear installat...
The CSNI Action Plan in the Area of Safety Margins was set up by the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI),
In order to capture the current situation, members of the WGOE IOEF Task Group provided short narratives outlining their national OEF practices. The IOEF Report notes that, in order to get a comprehe...
The EGOE facilitates an active and timely exchange of operating experience information to establish, implement, assess, and continuously improve regulatory oversight practices and programmes.
Updates from the NEA Working Group on Reactor Oversight
The NEA Working Group on Reactor Oversight (WGRO) will organise its first international workshop on 11–15 November 2024 in Fukui, Japan. The First International Nuclear Reactor Oversight Workshop (IN...
Organised in collaboration with the Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Fuel Cycle Safety (WGFCS) held an international workshop on Operational and Regulatory As...
This report is the third in a series of the WGOE (Working Group on Operating Experience) of reports on recurring events. The first two reports NEA/CSNI/R(1999)19 and NEA/CSNI/R(2003)13 discussed a va...
Operating experience is the collection and dissemination of knowledge gained via the operation of nuclear facilities.
The report provides the proceedings from the WGOE meeting discussion on the item of generic interest from September 2010. Additionally, this report aims to analyse the WGOE member country responses t...
The purpose of this task group report is to show existing national trending tasks and to assess the possibilities in trending of internationally reported events. The report discusses the opportunitie...
At its May 2009 meeting, the WGOE identified transformer failures as an issue of generic importance. The US NRC had identified that transformer failures had an increasing trend. Transfortmers are non...
The Working Group on Operating Experience (WGOE) has observed that events with heavy loads are a contemporary issue to address after several operating experiences in recent years. The WGOE made a pro...
The purpose of WGOE is to facilitate the exchange of information, experience, and lessons learnt related to operating experience between CNRA Member countries. The WGOE continues its mission to ident...
The NEA Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) authorised the formation of a task group in June 2011 to identify measures to enhance the integrity of the supply chain by minimising the inc...
NEA Working Group on the Safety of Advanced Reactors (WGSAR) meeting, 9‑11 October 2019
On 25 July 2006, Forsmark Unit 1 experienced a short circuit in the offsite 400kV switchyard causing the inoperability of two emergency diesel generators.
This event identified weaknesses in the ele...
Several NEA member countries agreed to establish the Component Operational Experience, Degradation and Ageing Programme (CODAP) to encourage co-operation in the collection and analysis of data relati...
The main objective of the CNRA Working Group on Operating Experience (WGOE) is to share experience and knowledge, analyse and provide expert insights from operating experience to reach timely conclus...
The Working Group on Reactor Oversight (WGRO) works to provide a mechanism for nuclear safety regulators and Technical Support Organisations (TSOs) to share their knowledge and experience on both, th...
The previous report The Use of International Operating Experience Feedback for Improving Nuclear Safety, [NEA/CNRA/R(2008)3] addressed the proposal made at the December 2006 CNRA Meeting for the WGOE...
This appendix provides the complete compilation of responses received to the questionnaire issued in conjunction with the International Operating Experience Feedback Workshop. The workshop was coordi...
The Fukushima Daiichi NPP accident serves as a case study for various disciplines within nuclear sciences. Researchers worldwide in health physics, radio-ecology, severe accident analysis, and human ...
Based on the regulatory actions underway or being considered in different member countries concerning their ability to maintain their corporate knowledge with respect to the ageing work force, the Co...
The main objective of the NEA Working Group on Operating Experience (WGOE) was to improve nuclear safety by sharing operating experience and knowledge.
The CNRA believes in the importance of having a working group dedicated to safety culture. The Working Group on Safety Culture (WGSC) provided a senior level regulatory forum for exchanging informati...
The Working Group on the Regulation of New Reactors (WGRNR) examined the regulatory issues of the siting, licensing and regulatory oversight for all new commercial nuclear power reactors. The WGRNR f...
The working group will be responsible for the programme of work in the CNRA regarding regulatory activities in the primary area of advanced reactors and associated installations. The term “advanced r...