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Nuclear Energy Agency Online BulletinCovers new material for April 2004:
New publications New publicationsPublications on sale can be ordered at the OECD bookshop: www.oecd.org/scripts/publications/bookshop/redirect.asp. Government
and Nuclear Energy
Nuclear
Legislation in Central and Eastern Europe and the NIS
Nuclear
Production of Hydrogen
Free publications are available at www.nea.fr/html/pub/webpubs/. Paper copies may be requested by sending an e-mail to nea@nea.fr. Direct
Indicators of Nuclear Regulatory Efficiency and Effectiveness
Safety
of Disposal of Spent Fuel, HLW and Long-lived ILW in Switzerland
Nuclear safety and regulationA workshop on probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) of non-reactor nuclear facilities (NRNF) will be held on 4-5 October 2004 at NEA headquarters. This workshop will promote exchanges on the use of PSA for nuclear fuel cycle facilities and explore its relevance to the conventional deterministic approach. More information is available at www.nea.fr/html/nsd/workshops/psa-nrnf/index.html. Papers presented at the workshop on level 2 PSA and severe accident management held on 29-31 March 2004 in Cologne, Germany are now available at www.nea.fr/html/nsd/workshops/psa/programme.html. The full workshop proceedings are currently in preparation. Legal affairsA seminar on nuclear law and the protection of the environment
will be held on 5-9 July 2004 at the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca,
Romania. Topics to be discussed at the seminar in the context of environmental
protection include the following:
The seminar is being organised in co-operation with the Romanian National Commission for the Control of Nuclear Activities (CNCAN), the Romanian National Nuclear Power Company (Nuclearelectrica S.A.), Romatom, the French Branch of the International Nuclear Law Association (INLA) and the French Society for Nuclear Energy (SFEN). The seminar will be conducted in French. More information is available at www.nea.fr/html/law/isnl/romania/index.htm. Nuclear science A workshop on integral critical experiments with low-moderated
MOX fuels was held on 14-15 April 2004 at OECD headquarters. The main
recommendations from the workshop were to:
The NEA Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety (WPNCS)
has identified the MOX fuel manufacturing process as an area in which
there is a specific need for additional integral experiments. More information
about the workshop is available at www.nea.fr/html/science/meetings/mox/index.html;
more information about the WPNCS is available at www.nea.fr/html/science/wpncs/index.html. A second workshop on the VVER-1000 coolant transient benchmark (V1000CT) was held on 5-6 April 2004 in Sofia, Bulgaria. The V1000CT benchmark defines standard problems for the validation of coupled three-dimensional (3-D) neutron-kinetics and system thermal-hydraulic codes. These codes can be applied to Soviet-designed VVER-1000 reactors using actual plant data without the need for scaling. The overall objective is to provide computer codes for use in the safety analysis of VVER power plants — specifically those used in reactivity transient simulations for the VVER-1000. The V1000CT benchmark consists of two phases:
More information is available at www.nea.fr/html/science/transients/v1000ct.html. Data BankComputer program servicesA page listing all new programs in the last 12 months can be found at: www.nea.fr/html/dbprog/cpsnew.html. Detailed news concerning the computer program service is available at: www.nea.fr/html/dbprog/Newsletter/Whatsnew.htm.
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