Members of the QUENCH-II joint aim to investigate the behavior of accident tolerant fuel (ATF) claddings in design basis accidents and beyond design basis accidents scenarios.

Project members met in France and online to discuss the ongoing and future activities.

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...

The NEA Second Framework for Irradiation Experiments (FIDES-II) supports the fuel and material experimental needs of nuclear safety regulators, technical support organisations, research institutions ...

Members of the FIDES-II Joint Project meet in Paris to receive updates on the nine ongoing irradiation experiments and consider what’s next.

Context of the workshop

Since its inception, the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has served as a flexible and powerful platform for multinational research co-operation, particularly in areas related to n...

Project members met in France to discuss the ongoing experimental activities.

The INCA experiments will provide comparative data on the irradiation induced creep of current Zr alloys and Cr coated samples