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The Steering Committee for Nuclear Energy reviews innovative technologies at biannual meeting
Innovative technologies, including small modular reactors and nuclear-generated hydrogen, will play an essential role in the impact that nuclear energy can have in helping governments to reach their net zero targets. Discussions around the Nuclear Energy Agency’s commitment to furthering development in these key areas were a focus at the Steering Committee for Nuclear Energy biannual meeting on 20-21 October 2022. Read more
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The Steering Committee for Nuclear Energy agrees to gender balance policy framework
The Steering Committee for Nuclear Energy agreed to a policy framework for improving gender balance in the nuclear energy industry during its bi-annual meeting in Paris in October. During the meeting, NEA Director-General William D. Magwood, IV and NEA Gender Balance Task Group Chair Dr Fiona Rayment highlighted the progress of the Task Group in developing strategies to attract more women into science and engineering fields relevant to the nuclear sector and support their career development - an increasing priority for many NEA member countries. The Steering Committee approved the principles within the framework and authorised discussions with the OECD to explore paths toward their formal adoption. Read more
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Nuclear-hydrogen in focus at the Global Clean Energy Action Forum
An NEA delegation, led by Director-General William D. Magwood, IV, recently attended the Global Clean Energy Action Forum, a joint convening of the 13th Clean Energy Ministerial and the 7th Mission Innovation Ministerial in Pittsburgh, United States. The Global Clean Energy Action Forum assembled 6 000 global experts with ministerial-level participation from 30 countries to bring new ideas and solutions to accelerate clean energy use, advance international energy security, enable economic growth and combat climate change. The conference attracted a number of clean energy leaders including philanthropist and Breakthrough Energy founder Bill Gates, US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, and many more. Read more
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Canada hosts the Country-Specific Safety Culture Forum
The NEA in partnership with the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) conducted the Country-Specific Safety Culture Forum - Canada from 7-8 September 2022, hosted by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC). The two-day event in Ottawa brought together approximately 80 participants from the Canadian nuclear sector who engaged in constructive discussions around how their national traits could have an impact on safety culture in their nuclear community. Read more
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NEA's first country-specific system costs study examines different scenarios under which Switzerland can achieve net zero objectives by 2050
The latest NEA report Achieving Net Zero Carbon Emissions in Switzerland in 2050: Low Carbon Scenarios and their System Costs is the first of a series of co-operations between the NEA and its member countries in assessing the costs, challenges and opportunities for their energy systems in a context of increasingly stringent carbon constraints. Based on the NEA Power System Model (POSY) and on consultations with Swiss energy experts, it establishes the total economic system costs of different low-carbon generation mixes in the Swiss electricity sector.
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Applications are open for the International Nuclear Law Essentials programme
27 February - 3 March 2023 | Paris, France
The International Nuclear Law Essentials (INLE) is a five-day programme organised by the NEA to provide participants with a practical and comprehensive understanding of the various interrelated legal issues relating to the safe and peaceful use of nuclear energy. This intensive course addresses the needs and interests of lawyers working in either the public or the private sector but will also be of interest to scientists, engineers, policymakers, managers and other professionals working in the nuclear field. The course will be held from 27 February to 3 March 2023. Interested applicants are advised to apply as early as possible as the applications are processed on a rolling basis. Learn more
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Train with the NEA Data Bank: New courses in 2023
The NEA Data Bank will organise two in-person courses on MCNP®, a general purpose Monte Carlo particle transport simulation code developed by the Los Alamos National Laboratory. MCNP® can simulate the transport of many particles including neutrons, photons, electrons, ions, and it can be used in radiation protection and dosimetry, radiation shielding, radiography, medical physics, nuclear criticality safety, critical and subcritical experiment design and analysis, detector design and analysis, nuclear oil-well logging, accelerator target design, fission and fusion reactor design, decontamination and decommissioning, and nuclear safeguards and non-proliferation. The courses are open to intermediate and advanced users, and will take place in February-March 2023 in Paris. Find out more and apply here
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Thermochemical Database (TDB) Project course: Thermodynamic data collection and assessment
15-16 November 2022 | Online
The 6th edition of the annual NEA TDB course on the topic of thermodynamic data collection and assessment will take place as a two-session webinar. This event will cover current NEA TDB activities and standards, provide an overview of data collection and analysis techniques, and work through some real system examples to demonstrate the critical evaluation and data assessment process. More information
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Remembering the past in the future: Building awareness of radioactive waste repositories together
22-24 November 2022 | Dessel, Belgium
This NEA workshop will take place at Tabloo, a multi-functional visitor centre in Belgium developed near the site of the future radioactive waste disposal facility for low and intermediate short-lived waste. During the three-day workshop, participants will hear from representatives of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the European Commission, local stakeholders in Belgium and other relevant NEA groups such as the Expert Group on Awareness Preservation (EGAP) and the Regulators’ Forum. More information
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Innovative techniques and technologies to support characterisation and decommissioning of complex and legacy sites
29 November - 1 December 2022 | Paris, France
This NEA workshop will focus on innovative site and radiological characterisation, decommissioning techniques, application of existing technologies, and best practices to overcome the challenges associated with the use of existing technologies. The workshop will gather implementers, representatives from government and regulatory agencies, researchers and other stakeholders involved in the decommissioning of complex and legacy sites. More information
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NEA nuclear safety research joint projects week: A success story and opportunities for future developments
9-13 January 2023 | Online
The NEA will organise a five-day virtual workshop from 9-13 January 2023 to take stock of experience gained through NEA safety research joint projects and discuss research frameworks, platforms and competences needed in order to maintain or develop future safety research in the nuclear energy sector. The event will bring together regulators, representatives from technical support, research and international organisations, as well as nuclear energy industry representatives. Registrations will open in November 2022. More information
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State-of-the-art Report on Nuclear Fuel Behaviour Under Reactivity-initiated Accident Conditions
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The Role of Nuclear Power in the Hydrogen Economy: Cost and Competitiveness
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Human and Organisational Performance in Nuclear Installations
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Effective Nuclear Regulation and Safety Management in a Pandemic
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Concepts and Terminology for Protecting Nuclear Installations from Flood Hazards
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Actinide and Fission Product Partitioning and Transmutation: Workshop Proceedings of the Fifteenth Exchange Meeting
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Prestressed Concrete Reactor Containment Behaviour in Test Condition Taking into Account Ageing Effects (VeRCoRs)
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Specialists Workshop on Advanced Instrumentation and Measurement Techniques for Experiments Related to Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics and Severe Accidents (SWINTH-2019)
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NEA CODAP Project Topical Report: A Review of the "Post-1998" Experience with Thermal Fatigue in Heavy Water and Light Water Reactor
Piping Components
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Gender Balance Task Group convenes for 7th meeting in Paris
In recent years, NEA countries have highlighted gender balance as a matter of increasing importance that would benefit from international co-operation and formed the Gender Balance Task Group (GB-TG), a high-level task group to take action. The task group met at the NEA headquarters in Paris in September for a two-day meeting to develop practical tools for countries to use to implement a strategic policy framework on improving gender balance in the nuclear energy sector. Read more
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Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Board assembles for 6th meeting in Paris
The NEST Management Board held its sixth meeting at the NEA in Paris assembling members from 10 countries on 10-11 October. The purpose of this meeting was for the Board to review the impacts of the six NEST projects, and discuss future planning in outreach and co-operation with partners and stakeholders. In addition to hearing from Board members, the group welcomed observers from the International Atomic Energy Agency, European Commission, European Nuclear Education Network and Generation IV International Forum, who presented existing co-operation initiatives in partner organisations. Read more
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Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) SMR Press Pitch takes place in Toronto, Canada
The NEST SMR Project held the SMR Press Pitch at the GIF Industry Forum and the 4th International Conference on Generation IV and Small Reactors (G4SR-4) in Toronto on 3 October 2022. Leading up to the event, the 25 participants attended four separate virtual sessions that introduced the students to many aspects of deploying SMRs. The Press Pitch concluded with a full day in-person meeting where the students presented their pitches to a panel including NEA Director-General William D. Magwood, IV, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Reactor Fleet and Advanced Reactor Deployment at the US Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy, Alice Caponiti, the Chief Science and Technology Officer at the UK National Nuclear Laboratory and Vice Chair of the NEA Steering Committee, Dr Fiona Rayment, and Professor Goran Calic from McMaster University. Read more
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The inaugural BEAST summer school gathers future RWM professionals in Germany
The first edition of the BEAST summer school gathered 11 young professionals from four different organisations from 6-9 September at the Aachen Institute for Nuclear Training (AiNT) in Stolberg, Germany. Over four days, participants received in-depth training on topics related to characterisation for nuclear decommissioning and radioactive waste management through lectures, expert discussions and practical training with nuclear radiation measurement technology and gamma spectrometry software. Read more
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Promoting future leaders in science and technology in Spain
The NEA held the International Mentoring Workshop for female high school students co-organised with Women in Nuclear Global (WiN) Spain at the University of Cartagena on 27 September 2022. Entitled Promoting Future Leaders in Science and Technology, the event brought together 71 female high school students, who actively engaged with 10 senior representatives from the Spanish nuclear community and staff from the NEA Division for Human Aspects of Nuclear Safety. Read more
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Community and youth engagement the key for future radioactive waste disposal
Engaging with local communities and stakeholders from younger generations must be a key focus for the nuclear energy industry in the planning and installment of radioactive waste disposal facilities. This is an important area of work for the NEA’s Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC). From October 5-7 in Dessel, Belgium, more than 50 local stakeholders, students from several countries and experts in stakeholder engagement and radioactive waste management convened for an FSC workshop to discuss the challenges in engaging the public in radioactive waste disposal projects. Read more
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Prevention, mitigation and management of potential accidents in nuclear power plants
The NEA Working Group on the Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) held its annual meeting on 12-14 September 2022 to discuss its ongoing work and activities related to potential accidental situations in nuclear power plants. Meeting participants discussed preparations for an upcoming workshop on transient thermal-hydraulics in water-cooled nuclear reactors (SM-TH) and a benchmark on fluid-structure interaction (FSI) based on experiments to validate coupled computational fluid dynamics and computational structural dynamics (CSD) calculations. Read more
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NEA SMR Strategy proposes a strategic framework to address the full set of conditions for successful development of SMRs
The NEA Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Strategy is the Agency’s cross-cutting approach to carry out its mission and deliver on member countries’ priorities related to SMRs. Structured in three thematic areas, technologies, enabling conditions, and applications and markets, the NEA SMR Strategy addresses the full set of conditions for success, supporting NEA member countries seeking to accelerate the deployment of SMRs in the context of pathways to net zero. Read more
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NICE Future publication showcases 12 global nuclear-hydrogen projects
Nuclear-Hydrogen Digest: Nuclear Energy in the Hydrogen Economy highlights initiatives from both public and private stakeholders around the world showing how nuclear energy can provide an actionable path to decarbonise hard-to-abate sectors. Launched by the NEA and NICE Future ahead of the 13th Clean Energy Ministerial, the publication was compiled in partnership with the Nuclear Energy Institute, the Idaho National Laboratory and the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation, and with the support of Hydrogen Initiative government and non-government members from Canada, Finland, France, Japan, Korea, the United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Read more
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Harmonising and improving cross-border co-ordination in dose prognosis
The NEA has made significant progress to strengthen member countries’ nuclear and radiological emergency preparedness and response, more specifically in their ability to co-ordinate and harmonise their respective protective actions. One area that has been targeted is greater harmonisation and cross-border co-ordination in dose prognosis, which is a key tool used to inform decisions on the implementation of protective actions. The Expert Group on comparison and understanding of Dose Prognosis (EGDP) held its 7th meeting on 5-6 October 2022 at the NEA offices to compare and analyse the results of a series of drills conducted in 2021 by 11 member countries. Based on the analysis, the EGDP will present a reference guide for member countries to collaboratively improve cross-border co-ordination through a common understanding of the factors that influence dose projection codes and lead to different outputs. Read more
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Discussing radiation shielding, novel accelerator experiments and radiation physics simulations
The 15th workshop on Shielding aspects of Accelerators, Targets and Irradiation Facilities (SATIF-15) was hosted by the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) on 20-23 September 2022 in East Lansing, United States. Organised in a hybrid format, the workshop gathered 129 participants from 75 international institutions to promote information exchange among experts in the field of radiation physics, and the application of ionising radiations in different fields of science and technology. Read more
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NEA Data Bank resumes its newsletter
After more than 10 years, the NEA Data Bank is resuming its newsletter to provide subscribers with updates on Data Bank's services, latest activities, upcoming events, and new packages that are available to members.
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25-OCT-22 |
CCC-0858 |
TMAP7, Tritium Migration Analysis Program
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20-OCT-22 |
CCC-0783 |
RASCAL 4.3, Radiological Assessment Systems for Consequence AnaLysis
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