The globalisation of commerce combined with the projected growth of global nuclear capacity by 2050, presents both new opportunities and emerging challenges for the nuclear supply chain. In this cont...

The Metal Subgroup of the NEA Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) will organise the Pipe Integrity Workshop to:

• present the outcomes from the three piping int...

Members of the NEA's nuclear safety joint project Rod Bundle Heat Transfer – Phase 2 (RBHT-II) met at the laboratories of CEA (the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) in Saclay,...

In June, the NEA’s Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) and the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) held their latest biannual meetings to discuss their activities an...

Common cause failure (CCF) events can significantly impact the availability of the safety systems of nuclear power plants. For this reason, several countries initiated the International Common-Cause ...

The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Working Group on External Events (WGEV) was established by the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) in June 2014 with the aim of improving the under...

The specialist workshop entitled “Reactor Core and Containment Cooling Systems: Long-term Management and Reliability (RCCS-2021)” was organised by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) as part of the activ...

DOI: 10.1787/cd079210-en

This report further explores some of the key elements presented in The Safety Culture of an Effective Regulatory Body (2016), commonly known as the NEA Green Booklet, and pro...

Thermodynamics of Advanced Fuels - International Database (TAF-ID) project, which has been running for over 10 years, uses the ‘Calphad’ method to develop a thermodynamic database as a computational ...