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...

In a context of the rapid development of nuclear energy projects around the world and the diversification of designs and players, regulators must adapt to effectively fulfil their missions.

The Chine...

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 event took place on 11–15 November 2024.

NEA News is the professional journal of the NEA. It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nuclear safety and regulatio...

The NEA Working Group on Reactor Oversight (WGRO) organised its first international workshop on 11–15 November 2024 in Fukui, Japan. It consisted of two sessions:

• Session 1 (Days 1, 2, and 3) - open...

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...