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NEA Headquarters, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
The NEA is organising the 16th Information Exchange Meeting on Actinide and Fission Product Partitioning and Transmutation (16IEMPT) on 24-27 October 2023. The meeting will be held at the NEA offices...
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23 October 2023
Publié chaque année, le Rapport annuel de l’AEN présente un aperçu des activités et publications de l’AEN pour une année donnée, ainsi que les derniers développements du secteur de l’énergie nucléair...
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8 December 2023
Published every year, the NEA Annual report includes an overview of NEA's activities and publications produced during the year, as well as the latest developments in nuclear energy sector around the ...
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8 December 2023
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24 February 2023
NEA headquarters (46, quai Alphonse Le Gallo, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France) with a remote access option
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30 January 2023
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23 February 2024
NEA headquarters (46, quai Alphonse Le Gallo, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France), remote access only under exceptional circumstances
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29 November 2023
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21 February 2025
NEA headquarters (46, quai Alphonse Le Gallo, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France), remote access only under exceptional circumstances
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7 August 2024
SATIF community celebrated the 30th anniversary during the 16th SATIF workshop hosted on 28-31 May.
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10 July 2024
AToMiC is dedicated to the understanding of microstructural evolution of fuel materials for use in higher temperature, GenIV type reactors.
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17 May 2024
The project participants, who come from 19 organisations in 8 countries, met in December 2023 in Karlsruhe.
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21 December 2023
NEA/NSC/R(2020)4
Advanced nuclear fuel cycles to improve the safety, sustainability and economics of nuclear energy are being investigated worldwide. Partitioning and transmutation (P&T) is one of the candidate techn...
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11 October 2022
The NEA and IAEA jointly organised an international workshop in Vienna, Austria, on 2-6 October 2023.
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21 November 2023
WPRS organised annual benchmarks workshop.
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12 June 2024
The 2023 MMSNF takes place in Canada.
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14 December 2023
WPFM held meetings on 23-25 May 2023.
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13 June 2023
The Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS) and its expert groups co-ordinate benchmark activities on Reactor Single- and Multi-Physics. The benchmark ac...
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7 June 2024
The goal of the Benchmark for Uncertainty Analysis in Best-Estimate Modelling for Design, Operation and Safety Analysis of Light Water Reactors (LWR-UAM) is to determine the uncertainty in light wate...
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25 April 2023
NEA/NSC/R(2021)5
Since the early 2000s there is an increasing demand from nuclear research, industry, safety and regulation for best-estimate predictions to be provided with their confidence bounds. Consequently, an ...
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18 April 2023
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18 January 2024
NEA/NSC/R(2023)8
The Task Force on Dose Rate Calculations for Irradiated Fuel Assembly was launched in 2015 to assess code predictions of dose rates from bare spent fuel assemblies and to benchmark multiple codes and...
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19 September 2023
NEA/NSC/R(2022)5
This report presents the results of a benchmark study on innovative fuels for fast reactors using fuel performance codes. Irradiation results were shared among participants of the expert group and co...
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3 April 2023
Many of the failures that occur in nuclear fuel rods in light water reactors around the world are caused by the phenomenon of mechanical interaction between pellets and cladding (PCMI). The process i...
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30 April 2024
Many of the failures that occur in nuclear fuel rods in light water reactors around the world are caused by the phenomenon of mechanical interaction between pellets and cladding (PCMI). The process i...
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30 April 2024
30 October 2023
13:00-15:00 CET, Online
Recent performance breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have led to unprecedented interest in AI/ML among nuclear engineers. However, the lack of dedicated benchmar...
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6 December 2023
The annual WPRS Benchmarks Workshops took place on 22-26 May 2023 in Bologna, Italy.
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13 June 2023
Burn-up credit is a safety approach that accounts for the reduction in the reactivity of configurations with spent nuclear fuel due to the change in their composition after irradiation.
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11 September 2023
NEA/NSC/R(2022)3/CORR
Please note that this report was initially published in November 2022 (NEA/NSC/R(2022)3) under erroneous benchmark number IIB; in this updated version (NEA/NSC/R(2022)3/CORR) this has been corrected ...
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30 November 2022
This benchmark is organised to examine the models for fission gas release during anticipated operational occurrences (AOOs).
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7 March 2023
Kick-off workshop of the thermal hydraulic code validation benchmark for high temperature gas-cooled reactors using High Temperature Test Facility (HTTF) data.
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16 June 2023
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17 January 2023
Experts from 16 countries met on 13-15 September for the 24th annual Working Group on Fuel Safety GFS meeting in Paris.
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27 October 2023
Development started on DATIF, the DATabase for IFpe, in 2018 in order to enhance accessibility to the IFPE legacy collection of integral fuel performance experiments data, jointly put together by the...
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12 April 2023
The event gathered 129 participants from 75 international institutions.
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6 October 2022
WPFC member gathered to discuss current and future activities.
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24 May 2024
The WPRS met from 20-24 February 2023.
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17 March 2023
View of Dragon Reactor. Photo: AEA Technology.
In 1959, twelve OECD countries began the Dragon Reactor Experiment (DRE) to build a reactor at Winfrith in Dorset, United Kingdom. The Dragon was the fi...
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14 October 2022
EGPRS Task Force members met on 3 April 2023.
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7 April 2023
NEA/NSC/R(2019)7
The modelling and simulation of nuclear systems allow scientists and engineers to probe aspects of the operation of these systems beyond what has been precisely measured. This has numerous applicatio...
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11 October 2022
NEA/NSC/R(2022)6
The goal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety (WPNCS) Subgroup on Experimental Needs for Criticality Safety Purposes (SG-5) was to highlight the needs of int...
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15 September 2023
The expert group primarily acted as a forum for scientific and technical information exchange on advanced light water reactor (LWR) fuels with enhanced accident tolerance.
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18 October 2022
Under the guidance of the Working Party on Materials Science Issues in Nuclear Fuels and Structural Materials (WPFM), the Expert Group on Fuel Materials (EGFM) focuses on materials science aspects of...
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3 March 2023
Under the guidance of the Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS), the Expert Group on Physics of Reactor Systems (EGPRS) performs specific tasks associa...
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6 December 2023
Created in 2019, under the guidance of the Working Party on Scientific Issues of Reactor Systems (WPRS) the expert group will perform specific tasks associated with core thermal-hydraulics aspects of...
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6 December 2023
Under the guidance of the Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS) the expert group performs specific tasks associated with fuel performance aspects of pr...
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8 March 2023
The Expert Group on Reactor Systems Multi-Physics (EGMUP) advances the state of the art in establishing processes and procedures for certifying experimental data and benchmarking multi-physics multi-...
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6 December 2023
Under the guidance of the Working Party on Materials Science Issues in Nuclear Fuels and Structural Materials (WPFM), the Expert Group on Structural Materials (EGSM) focuses on materials science aspe...
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3 March 2023
Expert groups on structural and fuel materials meet to advance materials science activities
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24 February 2023
WPFM and its expert groups met in Paris.
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24 May 2024
The NEA Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety (WPNCS) held its bi-annual meetings in June 2023
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24 July 2023
The NEA held a one-day workshop for Radiation Transport Simulation Developers (RTS 2024).
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24 July 2024
The FIDES-II framework is designed to do more than just produce data on transient fuel behavior and safety related issues.
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23 May 2024