Regulatory inspections of digital instrumentation and control (I&C) hardware and software for systems and components important to safety at nuclear power plants are needed to verify that such systems...

Uranium is the primary raw material fuelling all nuclear fission reactors today. Countries around the world rely on it to generate low-carbon electricity, process heat and hydrogen as part of their s...

This report presents a study performed on a set of common cause failure (CCF) events of motor operated valves (MOV) within the International Common Cause Failure Data Exchange (ICDE) project. In July...

This report presents a study performed on a set of common-cause failure (CCF) events within the International Common-cause failure Data Exchange (ICDE) project. The topic of the study was external fa...

The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Working Group on Codes and Standards (WGCS) has agreed that a consensus position on the topic of the qualification of existing and new material man facturing technique...

The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) Working Group on Codes and Standards (WGCS) sponsored a online international workshop on in-service inspection (ISI) ...

Optimisation is a fundamental concept in decision making in all parts of society. An optimised decision can be broadly defined as one that is reached in an inclusive and holistic manner, and is susta...

This report is intended to serve as a practical guide to explain the organisational characteristics, attributes and ways of thinking that can help a nuclear regulator build and maintain trust with in...

Background
Bridge cranes, which are components that handle devices designed to lift and transfer heavy loads, are widely used in the nuclear sector. Assessing the dynamic behaviour of bridge cranes is...

The aim of this second revision of the Best Practice Guidelines (BPG) is to provide guidance to the user of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes, both novice and experienced, in the field of nucl...