This report established by the NEA Working Group on Fuel Safety (WGFS) of the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) compiles the state-of-the-art knowledge on fuel behaviour in loss...

One of the major achievements of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) is the knowledge it has helped to generate through the organisation of joint international research projects. Such projects, prim...

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

NEA's ETHARINUS joint project held a meeting of its programme review group on 27-28 June 2024 in Erlangen, Germany.

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

Project members also launched the next phase.

CSNI and CNRA meetings took place on 4-7 June.

Discussions focused on future activities related to the three research tasks carried out at the Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory.

To mark the occassion, an event was organised in Loen, Norway.

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...