Accident-tolerant fuels may offer opportunities to enhance the safety and competitiveness of commercial nuclear power plants.

Criticality safety relates to accident prevention and protection from an uncontrolled nuclear fission chain reaction, or a criticality accident.

Sustained performance of nuclear technology depends on access to a talented and well-qualified workforce, thus it is important to ensure that adequate infrastructures exist for education and training.

Nuclear materials science investigates how corrosion, irradiation, thermal ageing and mechanical load may affect materials properties and potentially degrade their performance.

Multiphysics are simulations using computer applications or software to couple multiple physical events in order to predict or validate the physical real-world outcome.

Radiation shielding is a protective shield that is inserted betweeen a source of ionising radiation and the object to protect to reduce the amount of damage that can happen to delicate or biological materials, particularly during transport.

Understanding fuel performance is a key condition for successful reactor operation. Scientific knowledge in this domain was conceived by experimental tests encoded into software routines to ensure accurate prediction of fuel performance properties at steady-state and off-normal conditions.

Questions relating to the space, time end energy distribution of neutrons and radiation in different media are the domain of reactor physics.

Thermal hydraulics and mechanics deals with the physics and mechanics of the flow and energetic transfer of liquids, and its interactions with the structures around them in large complex systems, such as nuclear reactors.