The task force deals with the status and trends of scientific issues of fuel behaviour.
Emphasis is given to high burn-up in water reactors under normal operating conditions.
Priority goes to completed international programmes, the data of which would otherwise be lost, but also to data released from national programmes. Co-ordinate the qualification of these data through review and by organising user group meetings. Take initiatives so that it may be adopted as an international standard. Co-ordinate computer code validation and benchmark studies. The IFPE database will be consolidated during the next three years through updating and addition of new experiments.