All safety analysis of WWER and RBMK reactors carried out both by Western and Eastern expert groups have assigned a very high priority to assurance of the integrity of certain components of the primary circuit. An important input to the provision of such assurance comes from periodic non-destruc...
The formulas developped in different countries for predicting the embrittlement of reactor pressure vessel steels due to neutron irradiation have been collected and compared. The low-alloy steels which are ussed are essentially Manganese-Nickel-Molybdenu steels (16MND5, A533B, A508cl3), in weste...
Gathering some 500 stakeholders and policy makers, the FISA 2019 and EURADWASTE '19 conferences objectives are: To present progress and key achievements of some 90 projects carried out, since the previous conference edition in 2013, as part of the 7th and Horizon 2020 Euratom Research and Traini...
The NUSIMEP (Nuclear Signatures Inter-laboratory Measurement Evaluation Programme) is an external quality control programme organised by the European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Directorate G – Nuclear Safety and Security, Unit G.2 for Standards for Nuclear Safety, Security and Safeguard...