A healthy safety culture has long been considered essential to maintaining high levels of nuclear safety. Although safety goals across countries are similar, the operational realities vary due to a r...

健全な安全文化は、原子力安全を高いレベルで維持するために必須なことであると考えられてきた。各国が目指すことは類似しているが、国の文化的特性を含む様々な要因により、実際の取り組み状況は異なる。このような特性は、安全文化に良い影響を与えることもあれば課題となることもある。したがって、原子力界においては、それぞれの文化的背景の中でどのような影響が存在するかを特定し、これらの影響が安全文化にどのような効...

The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), in co-ordination with the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) of Japan, hosted the “International Conference on Regulators’ Views and Priorities on Nuclear Safety and ...

This document is intended to provide regulators, their technical support organisations and industry with a concise review of existing fuel experimental data at reactivity-initiated accident (RIA) and...

This is Volume 15 in the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) “Chemical Thermodynamics” series that features expert reviews of the chemical thermodynamics of key chemical elements in nuclear technology a...

Participants from 14 organisations, representing 11 countries, performed the benchmark exercise. Each participant provided a high-level summary of the leak-before-break (LBB) requirements in their co...

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...

This report analyses 36 events that regulators have observed during the construction of new nuclear power reactors, from siting to licensing and oversight. The database is part of the Contruction Exp...

The tsunami that followed the Great East Japan earthquake on 11 March 2011 led to beyond design-basis accidents at Units 1, 2 and 3 of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant even though they had b...

At its 61st meeting, the CSNI approved the recommended task on the benchmark on external events hazard frequency and magnitude statistical modelling, to be pursued by the WGEV. Modelling of these ext...