The Serpent-2 software is a three-dimensional continuous-energy neutron and photon transport code, developed at the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) (Leppänen, 2015), and is one of the most...

TCOFF-2 members met to discus the ongoing activities.

The NEA Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety (WPNCS) and its subgroups held their annual plenary meetings.

Under the auspices of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Nuclear Science Committee (NSC), the Working Party on Scientific Issues of Reactor Systems (WPRS) has been established to study reactor physics, ...

The Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety (WPNCS) deals with technical and scientific issues relevant to criticality safety. Specific areas of interest include (but are not limited to) investig...

The Working Party on Scientific Issues of Advanced Fuel Cycles (WPFC) studies advanced nuclear fuel cycles, including fuel cycle scenarios, innovative fuels and materials, separation chemistry, waste...

SFCOMPO 2.0 (Spent Fuel Isotopic Composition) is a relational database designed to facilitate the search and visualisation of experimental assay data of spent nuclear fuel.

The NEA delegation travelled to Bulgaria to take part in “Sustainable Nuclear Innovations.”

International benchmark of solvent extraction codes and process modelling applied to hydro-processes focuses on the modelling of PUREX (TBP-based extractions) systems with uranium and nitric acid as ...

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...

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...

SATIF-15 Workshop participants. Photo: courtesy of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB)

The 12th International Conference on Nuclear Criticality Safety (ICNC) was held in Sendai, Japan, on 1-6 October 2023. Twenty years after the last conference in Japan, which was held in Tokai-mura as...

The NEA held a one-day workshop for Radiation Transport Simulation Developers (RTS 2024).

The NEA Expert Group on the Physics of Reactor Systems (EGPRS) organised a one-day workshop to foster exchanges among radiation transport simulation developers. The workshop aimed to facilitate excha...

Project members met in France to discuss the ongoing experimental activities.

SATIF community celebrated the 30^th anniversary during the 16^th SATIF workshop hosted on 28-31 May.

Image: Microscopic examination of U-bearing particles collected at Fukushima-Daiichi, JAEA

The International School on Simulation of Nuclear Reactor Systems took place in Italy. 

The NEA Nuclear Science Committee (NSC) mandated the Expert Group on Multi-Physics Experimental Data, Benchmarks and Validation (EGMPEBV) in 2014 to provide oversight of activities associated with th...

The International Handbook of Evaluated Reactor Physics Benchmark Experiments (IRPhE) contains reactor physics benchmark specifications that have been derived from experiments that were performed at ...

The NEA organised the second International School on Simulation of Nuclear Reactor Systems (SINUS) on the topic of Reactor single- and multi-physics simulations based on Light Water Reactor (LWR) Unc...

WPRS organised annual benchmarks workshop.

The annual Benchmark Workshops of the Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS) was co-located with the BEPU 2024 conference and hosted by N.IN.E. (Nuclear...

International Fuel Performance Experiments (IFPE) is a data collection of nuclear fuel performance experiments for the purpose of code development and validation.

WPFM and its expert groups met in Paris.

WPFC member gathered to discuss current and future activities.

HITEC is dedicated to addressing challenges in the development and safety assessment of advanced non-LWR NPPs (or ANLWRs).

The INCA experiments will provide comparative data on the irradiation induced creep of current Zr alloys and Cr coated samples

The meetings took place in April 2024 in the United States.

The meeting marked an important transition for the framework with the launch of four new Joint Experimental Programmes (JEEPs).

Hydrogen has the potential to play an important role as a sustainable and environmentally acceptable energy carrier in the 21st century. This report describes the scientific and technical challenges ...

The Expert Group on Innovative Structural Materials (EGISM) was created in 2008 under the auspices of the Nuclear Science Committee’s (NSC) Working Party on Scientific Issues of the Fuel Cycle (WPFC)...