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...

The Fire Incidents Records Exchange (FIRE) Project started in 2002 and phase 7 of the project began in 2023 for a duration of three years, with 14 countries currently participating. The main purpose ...

RASPLAV-A-Salt Facility, EREC.

The RASPLAV* Project was regarded as a successor to the Three Mile Island Vessel Investigation Project (TMI-VIP) completed in 1993. The TMI-VIP Project was set up t...

Control room, PAKS NPP.

Software-based systems are used and retrofitted in operating nuclear power plants worldwide. The failure modes of both hardware and software in these systems are to some ext...

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...

                                                                                  EPICUR facility, IRSN.

STEM phases

First phase (2011-2015)

The STEM Project was initiated with a first phase in 20...

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...

Scheme of the PSB-VVER facility, EREC

The NEA PSB-VVER project provided unique and useful experimental data for code validation using the PSB-VVER test facility. The PSB-VVER facility is a large-scal...

Scheme of the ROSA LSTF facility, JAEA

The Rig-of-safety Assessment (ROSA) Project aimed to resolve issues in thermal-hydraulics analyses relevant to light water reactor (LWR) safety using the Japa...

General view of the EREC test facility BC V-213, source: EREC

There are several VVER-440/213* type nuclear power plants operating in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovak Republic, Russia and Ukraine...