The number of ageing nuclear power plants (NPPs) is increasing in NEA member countries. Accordingly, maintenance programmes, in-service inspection and testing of structures, systems and components im...

The Material Scaling (MASCA) Project investigated in-vessel phenomena during a severe accident. In particular, it addressed the influence of the chemical composition of the molten corium on the heat ...

The Third International Conference on Fatigue of Reactor Components held in Seville, Spain on 3-6 October 2004 was co-organised by the EPRI, the US NRC and the OECD NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuc...

In 2012, following a proposal from Japan, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) decided to initiate a joint project to conduct a study of the accident progression for the Fukush...

In the light of the TEPCO Fukushima accident, this report documents a study performed on a set of common-cause failure (CCF) events due to external factors, meaning that not only storms and hurricane...

This report documents a study performed on a set of ICDE events related to heat exchangers. The events studied here had been collected in the ICDE database. Organisations from Canada, Germany, Japan,...

The Component Operational Experience, Degradation and Ageing Programme (CODAP) combines the follow-up of two previous NEA projects: the Pipe Failure Data Exchange Project (OPDE) and the stress corros...

In this document, the general coding guidelines for the OECD NEA ICDE Project (International Common Cause Failure Data Exchange) are presented with explanations and appendices for each analysed compo...

The NEA Working Group on Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) organised a specialist workshop entitled “Reactor core and containment cooling systems: Long-term management and reliability (RCC...

New Joint Project: Studsvik Material Integrity Life Extension (SMILE)