On 28 March 1979, a partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island unit 2 (TMI-2) reactor occurred at the TMI nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States.

A TMI accident evaluation pr...

During a fuel crud removal operation on the Paks-2 unit on 10 April 2003, several fuel assemblies were severely damaged. The assemblies were being cleaned in a special tank of the Paks Nuclear Power ...

The goals of the Piping Failure Data Exchange (OPDE) Project were to:

• collect and analyse piping failure event data to promote a better understanding of underlying causes, impact on operations and s...

The Stress Corrosion Cracking and Cable Ageing Project (SCAP) lasted four years (2006-2010). The project’s main objectives were to:

• establish two complete databases with regard to major ageing pheno...

In 2006, two subjects, stress corrosion cracking and the degradation of cable insulation were selected as the focus of the Stress Corrosion Cracking and Cable Ageing Project (SCAP). The project ran f...

The SESAR Thermal-hydraulics (SETH) Project began in 2001 and consisted of thermal-hydraulic experiments in support of accident management, which were carried out at facilities identified by the Comm...

The Rig-of-safety Assessment (ROSA) Project aimed to resolve issues in thermal-hydraulics analyses relevant to light water reactor (LWR) safety using the Japanese rig-of-safety assessment/large-scale...

STEM phases

First phase (2011-2015)

The STEM Project was initiated with a first phase in 2011 to improve the general ...

The Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) Project provides a forum for radiological protection (RP) professionals from nuclear electricity utilities and national regulatory authorities w...

HYMERES phases

First phase (2013-2016)

The main objective of the first phase of the Hydro...