At the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), the importance of fuel modelling and its improvement through development of phenomenological representations has been recognised and multiple technical groups rela...

Experts met on 17-19 September for the 25^th WGFS annual meeting in Paris. 

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...

Rising international interest in increasing fuel burnup limits and fuel cycle length may require fuel enrichment above 5% and high reactivity/high suppression core designs. Based on this interest in ...

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...

Experts from 16 countries met on 13-15 September for the 24^th annual Working Group on Fuel Safety GFS meeting in Paris. 

Two new reports from the WGFS highlight the latest developments in RIA research.

Following the recommendations from the technical workshop on “Nuclear Fuel Behaviour during Reactivity-Initiated Accidents” organised by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in September 2009, a first ben...

As a follow-up to the 2010 NEA report Nuclear Fuel Behaviour under Reactivity-initiated Accident (RIA) Conditions: State-of-the-art Report 2010, this report presents the state-of-the-art knowledge on...