The NEA ATLAS3 and NEA ETHARINUS projects organised a workshop on 7-9 November 2023. 

Photo: RBHT Test Facility. US NRC.

Modelling reactor core behaviour under accident conditions with delayed re-introduction of cooling water (commonly referred to as reflood) is a challenge for safety...

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...

^{View of the ATLAS experimental loop. KAERI, Korea}

The Advanced Thermal-hydraulic Test Loop for Accident Simulation (ATLAS) Project was referenced in The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident...

Scheme of the ROSA LSTF facility, JAEA

The Rig-of-safety Assessment (ROSA) Project aimed to resolve issues in thermal-hydraulics analyses relevant to light water reactor (LWR) safety using the Japa...

General view of the EREC test facility BC V-213, source: EREC

There are several VVER-440/213* type nuclear power plants operating in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovak Republic, Russia and Ukraine...

The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Working Group on the Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) aims to contribute to the assessment of the prevention, mitigation and management of accidents, ultim...

Scheme of the THAI+ facility, Becker Technologies.

The experimental investigations carried out in the frame of the THAI (2007-2009), THAI-2 (2011-2014) and THAI-3 (2016-2019) projects contributed s...

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...