This report established by the NEA Working Group on Fuel Safety (WGFS) of the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) compiles the state-of-the-art knowledge on fuel behaviour in loss...

The Working Group on Fuel Cycle Safety (WGFCS), which is part of the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installation (CSNI) of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), held an international workshop on devel...

Rising international interest in increasing fuel burnup limits and fuel cycle length may require fuel enrichment above 5% and high reactivity/high suppression core designs. Based on this interest in ...

This document is intended to provide regulators, their technical support organisations and industry with a concise review of existing fuel experimental data at reactivity-initiated accident (RIA) and...

Participants from 14 organisations, representing 11 countries, performed the benchmark exercise. Each participant provided a high-level summary of the leak-before-break (LBB) requirements in their co...

The tsunami that followed the Great East Japan earthquake on 11 March 2011 led to beyond design-basis accidents at Units 1, 2 and 3 of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant even though they had b...

At its 61st meeting, the CSNI approved the recommended task on the benchmark on external events hazard frequency and magnitude statistical modelling, to be pursued by the WGEV. Modelling of these ext...

In continuation of the NEA-guided experimental programmes at the PKL test facility in Germany operated by Framatome GmbH, the fourth phase of the NEA PKL project was conducted between June 2016 and S...

This report aims to establish the status of current 3D capabilities in T/H system codes, covering all aspects and limitations, including the equations and simplifications considered, the time and spa...

Common-cause failure (CCF) events can significantly impact the availability of safety systems of nuclear power plants. For this reason, several Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) member countries initiated ...