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 Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS) studies the reactor physics, fuel performance, and radiation transport and shielding in present and future nu...

Members of the NEA joint project Thermodynamics of Advanced Fuels - International Database (TAF-ID) met on 23-25 October 2024.

The Working Party on Scientific Issues of Advanced Fuel Cycles (WPFC) studies advanced nuclear fuel cycles, including fuel cycle scenarios, innovative fuels and materials, separation chemistry, waste...

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

The Expert Group on Innovative Fuel Elements (EGIFE), operating under the auspices of the Working Party on Scientific Issues of Advanced Fuel Cycles (WPFC), launched an activity to produce a set of r...

The Working Group on Fuel Cycle Safety (WGFCS), which is part of the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installation (CSNI) of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), held an international workshop on devel...

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 ...

The tsunami that followed the Great East Japan earthquake on 11 March 2011 led to beyond design-basis accidents at Units 1, 2 and 3 of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant even though they had b...