Picture of the ASNR MIDI facility 

The Pool during Loss of Cooling Accident (POLCA) project was launched in April 2024 and is planned to last four years. It is operated by the French Autorité de Sûre...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

PKL facility. Photo: FRAMATOME, Germany

The Experimental Thermal Hydraulics for Analysis, Research and Innovations in Nuclear Safety (ETHARINUS) project was launched in October 2020 to address knowle...

PANDA vessel assembly (construction phase, 1993), PSI.

The PANDA project was launched in July 2021, following the NEA HYMERES project series, to contribute to the extension of the database on large...

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

The Advanced Thermal-hydraulic Test Loop for Accident Simulation (ATLAS) is a thermal-hydraulic integral effect test facility for advanced light wate...

Passive thermal-hydraulic systems are widely used in nuclear reactor safety and design. For example, primary circuits in existing boiling and pressurised water reactors are designed to take advantage...

PERSEO was built at SIET laboratory (Piacenza, Italy) to study a new passive decay heat removal system operating in natural circulation. The main innovation in PERSEO is the presence of two pools con...