Discussions focused on future activities related to the three research tasks carried out at the Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory.
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...
Image: Microscopic examination of U-bearing particles collected at Fukushima-Daiichi, JAEA
Within the context of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Advanced Thermal-hydraulic Test Loop for Accident Simulation (ATLAS) project, a series of tests were performed to resolve key thermal-hydraulic s...
The NEA Advanced Thermal-Hydraulic Test Loop for Accident Simulation (ATLAS) Project is one of the NEA supported joint projects under the auspices and with the support of the NEA. It started from Apr...
This document is the summary record of the meeting of the Management Board of the NEA Sorption Project Phase III, held at the NEA Offices, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France on 5-6 November 2009.
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 NEA held a Nuclear Safety Research Joint Projects Week virtual event from 9-13 January 2023 to review the accomplishments of NEA Joint Nuclear Safety Projects over the last four decades and to di...
Read the summary and main outcomes of the NEA Nuclear Safety Research Joint Projects Week.
The workshop was held in Lucca, Italy on 13-15 April 2016.
The PKL3 Project tests consisted of a programme of experiments intended to, inter alia, understand complex heat transfer mechanisms in the s...
Project members also launched the next phase.
Fire protection layer for electrical cables
The Stress Corrosion Cracking and Cable Ageing Project (SCAP) lasted four years (2006-2010). The project’s main objectives were to:
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...
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...
Sorption is a combination of physical and chemical processes by which the migration of radionuclides in the geosphere (and possibly from a radioactive waste repository) can be slowed down under certa...
The NEA Joint Project on Waste Integration for Small and Advanced Reactor Designs (WISARD) will start in 2025.
Scheme of the PKL facility, Framatome GmbH.
The SESAR Thermal-hydraulics (SETH) Project began in 2001 and consisted of thermal-hydraulic experiments in support of accident management, which were ca...
Lyon, France, 8-10 September 1997
In the current project, a new systematic approach has been developed, called SAPIUM (systematic approach for input uncertainty quantification methodology) for transparent and rigorous model IUQ. This...
Post-test view inside OLHF-4 vessel showing penetrations and resolidified weld material at the vessel bottom.
During a severe accident, the lower head of a reactor pressure vessel (RPV) can be subj...