The 2023 MMSNF takes place in Canada.

WPFM held meetings on 23-25 May 2023.

Expert groups on structural and fuel materials meet to advance materials science activities

WPFM and its expert groups met in Paris.

The NEA Expert Group on Innovative Structural Materials (EGISM) organised a workshop on 19-21 October 2021 together with the Spanish Center for Energy, Environmental and Technological Research (CIEMA...

Thermodynamic databases and accident prevention

International experts gathered at the NEA for the commencement of the third phase TAF-ID on 16-17 February 2023.

The continued evolution of fuel and materials technology, fuel performance, optimisation of operational limits, material ageing, failure limits, etc. requires experimental evidence obtained from test...

Primary Radiation Damage in Materials – Review of Current Understanding and Proposed New Standard Displacement Damage Model to Incorporate in Cascade Defect Production Efficiency and Mixing Effects

More than 20 international experts gathered for the second meeting of the third phase of the TAF-ID project.

The Expert Group on Innovative Fuel Elements (EGIFE), operating under the auspices of the Working Party on Scientific Issues of Advanced Fuel Cycles (WPFC), launched an activity to produce a set of r...

The NEA Working Group on New Technology (WGNT) is organising a hybrid international workshop on 3-5 June 2025. The workshop will be hosted at the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission headquarters.

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and Ciemat co-organised the Seventh International Workshop on Structural Materials for Innovative Nuclear Systems (SMINS-7), with the support of industry, Newcleo...

State-of-the-Art Report on Multi-Scale Modelling Methods

State-of-the-Art Report on Multi-scale Modelling of Nuclear Fuels

The Expert Group on Reactor Coolants/Components Technology (EGCoCoT), operating under the auspices of the Working Party on Scientific Issues of Advanced Fuel Cycles (WPFC), launched an activity to pr...

Materials research is a field of growing relevance for innovative nuclear systems, such as Generation IV reactors, critical and sub-critical transmutation systems and fusion devices. For these differ...

Structural materials research is a field of growing relevance in the nuclear sector, especially for the different innovative reactor systems being developed within the Generation IV International For...

The Working Party on Multi-scale Modelling of Fuels and Structural Material for Nuclear Systems (WPMM) was established to deal with the scientific and engineering aspects of fuels and structural mate...

Under the guidance of the Nuclear Science Committee (NSC) and under the mandate of the Working Party on Multi-scale Modelling of Materials (WPMM), the scope of the Expert Group on Multi-scale Modelli...