This report presents the description and the interpretation of the tests carried out in the third phase of the NEA Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) activity...

Since the publication, in 2001, of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) report describing the role of underground research laboratories (URLs) in nuclear waste disposal programmes and their value to build...

Under the guidance of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Nuclear Science Committee (NSC), the Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS) studies the reactor ph...

The seismic design rules for nuclear power plant piping systems that have been in practice since the 1960s have been applied to hundreds of piping supports and seismic restraints for nuclear power pl...

Passive thermal-hydraulic systems are widely used in nuclear reactor safety and design. For example, primary circuits in existing boiling and pressurised water reactors are designed to take advantage...

PERSEO was built at SIET laboratory (Piacenza, Italy) to study a new passive decay heat removal system operating in natural circulation. The main innovation in PERSEO is the presence of two pools con...

The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Expert Group on Costing for Decommissioning of Nuclear Installations and Legacy Management (EGCDL) addresses costing issues as an expert group of the NEA Working Party...

The NEA and METI International Workshop on Joint Utilisation of Underground Research Laboratories (URLs) for R&D Projects was organised in the JAEA Horonobe International Communication House (Horonob...

The Nuclear Energy Agency’s (NEA) Integration Group for the Safety Case (IGSC) and its predecessor, the Performance Assessment Advisory Group (PAAG), have carried out activities related to the compil...

The Serpent-2 software is a three-dimensional continuous-energy neutron and photon transport code, developed at the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) (Leppänen, 2015), and is one of the most...