The Benchmark Study of the Accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (BSAF) Project was established in 2012. The objective of the project was to improve severe accident (SA) codes and t...

The Preparatory Study on Analysis of Fuel Debris (PreADES) project was proposed as a near-term project by the Senior Expert Group on Safety Research Opportunities Post-Fukushima (SAREF).

PreADES was ...

The ARC-F project consolidates participant and expert observations which contribute to a deeper understanding of severe accident progression and the status of reactors and containment vessels at the ...

In 1959, thirteen OECD countries began the Dragon Reactor Experiment (DRE) to build a reactor at Winfrith in Dorset, United Kingdom. The Dragon was the first experimental high temperature gas-cooled ...

Image: QUENCH facility at KIT. Court. KIT. 

The purpose of the QUENCH-ATF project is to investigate the chemical, mechanical and thermal-hydraulics behaviour of ATF claddings in Design Basis Accident...

The Thermochemical Database (TDB) Project develops a reference database of chemical thermodynamic values for elements and compounds relevant to the safety of radioactive waste repositories and vital ...

Sorption is a combination of physical and chemical processes by which the migration of radionuclides in the geosphere (and possibly from a radioactive waste repository) can be slowed down under certa...

There are several VVER-440/213* type nuclear power plants operating in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovak Republic, Russia and Ukraine. VVER-440/213 pressurised water reactors (PWRs) have a pressure...

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 extent different from the ana...

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 into an international collaboration project u...