The NEA Second Framework for Irradiation Experiments (FIDES-II) supports the fuel and material experimental needs of nuclear safety regulators, technical support organisations, research institution...

The FIDES-II framework is designed to do more than just produce data on transient fuel behavior and safety related issues. 

The NEA Second Framework for Irradiation Experiments (FIDES-II) supports the fuel and material experimental needs of nuclear safety regulators, technical support organisations, research institutions ...

Photos: SFP testing. Left: fuel assembly after a Zr fire; right: fire ignition test. SNL/USNRC.

The goal of the Sandia Fuel Project was to provide experimental data relevant for hydraulic and ignitio...

Left: Scheme of Studsvik LOCA test facility Right: Microstructure of fragmented nuclear fuel, Studsvik

Cabri Reactor (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives)

The Cabri International Project (CIP) began in March 2000 to study the behaviour of nuclear fuel rods and cladding durin...

As a follow-up to the 2010 NEA report Nuclear Fuel Behaviour under Reactivity-initiated Accident (RIA) Conditions: State-of-the-art Report 2010, this report presents the state-of-the-art knowledge on...

The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) is responsible for NEA programmes and activities that support maintaining and advancing the scientific and technical knowledge base of the ...

Following the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, many countries began funding research and development on nuclear fuel designs with enhanced accident tolerance (ATFs). ATFs have i...