PAKS control room.
Under an agreement with the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, (JAERI), the NEA supported an international research project with the goal of developing a plant safety monito...
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19 December 2023
Pipe Degradation & Failure as a Function of In-Service Time (Years) at the time of the OPDE project closure
The goals of the Piping Failure Data Exchange (OPDE) Project were to:
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20 February 2024
PANDA vessel assembly (construction phase, 1993), PSI.
The PANDA project is a follow-up of the HYMERES-2 project, and its general objective is to advance the knowledge on the containment of thermal...
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31 August 2023
The NEA event reviews the accomplishments of the joint safety projects.
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27 January 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2014)15
The SERENA Project Integration Report summarises the outcome of a broad range of activities conducted in the framework of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Steam Explosion Resolution for Nuclear A...
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1 February 2015
NEA/CSNI/R(2021)8
The objective of the NEA THAI-3 project was to address open questions concerning the behaviour of hydrogen, iodine and aerosols under severe accident conditions in the containment of water cooled rea...
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28 August 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2010)3
In June 2005, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) agreed to set up an expert meeting on the German proposal concerning the THAI Project. The objectives of the project were to ...
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22 June 2010
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)2
The OECD-IAEA Paks Fuel Project was established in 2005 as a joint project between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). The IAEA provided financial ...
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18 September 2008
One of the major achievements of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) is the knowledge it has helped to generate through the organisation of joint international research projects. Such projects, prim...
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15 April 2024
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)6
This report provides an overview of experimental facilities that can be used to address nuclear safety research issues in OECD member countries, and identifies priorities for organising international...
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1 January 2007
Major nuclear safety research facilities and programmes are facing increasing budgetary constraints, and in many cases are being closed or terminated. This report identifies major facilities of vital...
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20 April 2001
Virtual kick-off meeting for the new joint project Experiments on Source Term for Delayed Releases (ESTER), 28-30 September 2020.
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9 October 2020
A central safety function of radioactive waste disposal repositories is the prevention or sufficient retardation of radionuclide migration to the biosphere. Performance assessment exercises in variou...
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4 May 2012
The modelling of the key process of radionuclide sorption is of great importance in assessing the performance or safety of deep and near-surface repositories for radioactive waste. The first phase of...
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4 May 2005
FIDES-II members hold meeting at Idaho National Laboratory
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7 November 2022
2010 presentation on Stress Corrosion Cracking and Cable Ageing Project (SCAP)
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17 April 2020
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Since its inception, the NEA has provided a highly flexible and powerful platform for multinational research co-operation, particularly in areas related to providing understanding and insights needed...
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27 February 2024
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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28 May 2020
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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17 July 2012
NEA/CSNI/R(2019)13
Since its inception in 2002, the operating experience with thermal fatigue mechanisms has been an intrinsic aspect of the technical scope of CODAP, which is a joint database project within the Commit...
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11 October 2022
NEA delegation participates in discussions at the Regulatory Information Conference in Washington D.C.
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27 March 2023
FIDES-II member assembled at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) in Mito, Japan.
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23 November 2023
In a core melt accident, if the molten core is not retained in-vessel despite severe accident mitigation actions, the core debris will relocate to the reactor cavity region and interact with the stru...
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2 October 2023
View of the RASPLAV-3 Facility.
The Material Scaling (MASCA) Project was a follow-up of the RASPLAV Project and investigated in-vessel phenomena during a severe accident with core melt. Specifica...
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6 October 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)15
The Material Scaling (MASCA) Project investigated in-vessel phenomena during a severe accident. In particular, it addressed the influence of the chemical composition of the molten corium on the heat ...
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1 June 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2004)23
The focus of the Material Scaling (MASCA) Project was to investigate in detail the chemical behaviour of corium in contact with structural materials, with emphasis mainly on steel. This report provid...
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1 November 2004
NEA/CSNI/R(2002)27
Volume 1 – Integral Experiments and Material Characterization
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28 May 2003
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...
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2 October 2023
JAEA High-temperature Engineering Test Reactor Photo: Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Task Group on Advanced Reactor Experimental Facil...
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19 March 2024
Project members held a meeting to discuss the activities.
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16 April 2024
International experts gathered at the NEA for the commencement of the third phase TAF-ID on 16-17 February 2023.
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24 February 2023
FACE project members met on 28-30 June 2023 in Paris, France.
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24 July 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2011)12
In this document, the general coding guidelines for the OECD NEA ICDE Project (International Common Cause Failure Data Exchange) are presented with explanations and appendices for each analysed compo...
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21 February 2012
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1 July 2020
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6 December 2019
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24 November 2020
The Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) Project provides a forum for radiological protection (RP) professionals from nuclear electricity utilities and national regulatory authorities w...
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21 February 2024
TCOFF-2 members discuss future activities.
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10 July 2023
Thermodynamic databases and accident prevention
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24 February 2023
Paper about the Stress Corrosion Cracking and Cable Ageing Project (SCAP)
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17 April 2020
“Improving Cross-disciplinary and Transversal Skills for the Severe Accidents Community” approved by NEST Management Board.
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18 December 2023
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3 November 2022
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3 November 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2019)3
The ICDE project allows multiple countries to collaborate and exchange CCF data to enhance the quality of risk analyses, which include CCF modelling. Because CCF events are typically rare, most count...
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21 January 2019
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15 July 2002
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)1
Common-cause-failure (CCF) events can significantly impact the availability of safety systems of nuclear power plants. For this reason, the International Common Cause Failure Data Exchange (ICDE) pro...
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25 January 2008
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26 April 2001
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)8
Common-cause failure (CCF) events can significantly impact the availability of safety systems of nuclear power plants. For this reason, the International Common-Cause Failure Data Exchange (ICDE) Pro...
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1 July 2008
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23 August 2000
NEA/CSNI/R(2013)4
The purpose of the ICDE Project is to allow multiple countries to collaborate and exchange common cause failure (CCF) data to enhance the quality of risk analyses that include CCF modelling. Because ...
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3 July 2013