MANTRAS includes educational and training courses, events on applications in the medical sector, and access to the available research infrastructures. It focuses in particular on the development of n...
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14 August 2024
The NEST Secretariat monitors the progress of the different NEST Projects, supports the Management Board in the Monitoring and Evaluation process and provides the interface between the NEST Projects...
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14 August 2024
The CRPPH assists NEA member countries in the implementation and enhancement of the system of radiological protection. It contributes to the adoption and the maintenance of high standards of protecti...
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13 August 2024
From prior generation until disposal, optimisation requires a holistic approach from environmental, economic and societal aspects, with strong co-ordination among all involved stakeholders.
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13 August 2024
The Programme Review Group is established to perform a programme quality review function within the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) and to provide scientific assistance to the...
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13 August 2024
The objective of the Working Group on Fuel Cycle Safety (WGFCS) is to advance the understanding of relevant aspects of nuclear fuel cycle safety, including: uranium mining and milling; uranium refini...
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13 August 2024
The goal of EGCUL is to share state-of-the-art knowledge and experience in characterising a large amount of unknown waste derived from nuclear accidents and past nuclear activities.
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13 August 2024
The RepMet initiative aimed to improve understanding of the identification, administration and application of metadata to support national programmes in managing radioactive waste repository data, in...
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13 August 2024
With the growing importance of SMRs, following the proposal of the CSNI Bureau, the CSNI has decided to create an Expert Group on SMRs (EGSMR), at its 69th meeting held on 2-3 June 2021.
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13 August 2024
Any country wishing to join the NEST Framework must become a signatory of the NEST Framework Agreement, as stated in article 11(a) of the agreement.
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12 August 2024
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International benchmark of solvent extraction codes and process modelling applied to hydro-processes focuses on the modelling of PUREX (TBP-based extractions) systems with uranium and nitric acid as ...
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12 August 2024
Led by the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), the TCOFF-II initiative aims to enhance expertise and knowledge dissemination in thermodynamics modelling applied to materia...
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12 August 2024
Led by the University of Siena in Italy, the TRAINS initiative aims to enhance training and knowledge dissemination in radiological and nuclear security.
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12 August 2024
The Joint Protocol acts as a bridge between the Paris and Vienna Conventions, effectively extending the benefits provided by one convention to victims in countries that have joined the other conven...
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12 August 2024
The 1997 Vienna Protocol improves the original regime by requiring that more money be made available to compensate more victims for a broad range of damages.
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12 August 2024
The NEST Framework comprises several countries and organisations who wish to co-operate through international exchanges and activities to strengthen nuclear-related technology education and training ...
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12 August 2024
The NEST HYMERES project addresses safety-relevant phenomena in containments during accidents. It offers hands-on training opportunities during the experimental test campaigns carried at the PSI PAND...
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12 August 2024
The proposed NEST project BEAST addresses postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and young professionals, who intend to work in the field of Nuclear Decommissioning and Waste Management. The...
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12 August 2024
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This project aims to integrate SMR research projects from the individual participant organisation countries into a broader and more impactful programme. It will include elements of technology assessm...
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12 August 2024
A list of NEST events, conferences, workshops and summer schools organised in the context of ongoing NEST projects.
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12 August 2024
The NEA launched the Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework in partnership with its member countries to help address important gaps in nuclear skills capacity building, knowledge t...
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12 August 2024
The Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS) studies the reactor physics, fuel performance, and radiation transport and shielding in present and future nu...
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12 August 2024
The workshop gathered 43 secondary school students from Fukushima and 4 high school students from Illinois, United States.
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12 August 2024
Panda facility under construction. Photo courtesy of the Paul Scherrer Institute
HYMERES phases
First phase (2013-2016)
The main objective of the first phase of the Hydrogen Mitigation Experiments fo...
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12 August 2024
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Stockholm University, Sweden
The 2024 edition of the IRPS will be held in person at Stockholm University, Sweden, from 12-16 August 2024, in co-operation with the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) and the Centre for Radia...
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26 April 2024
The main decision body of the NEST Framework is the Management Board which includes one member and one alternate from each NEST Country.
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8 August 2024
This NEST project addresses the main issues of i‑graphite management, including characterisation, decontamination and disposal.
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8 August 2024
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6 August 2024
This project led by JAEA/CLADS will be dedicated to advanced remote technology for decommissioning under intense gamma-ray radiation environments (e.g. robotics, virtual reality).
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6 August 2024
NEA/CSNI/R(2021)5
The Working Group on Fuel Cycle Safety (WGFCS), which is part of the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installation (CSNI) of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), held an international workshop on devel...
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6 August 2024
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6 August 2024
Accepted Abstracts as of 2 August 2024
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6 August 2024
The Comparative Study of Alternative Options for Co-operative Transuranic elements (TRU) management was launched in 2016 to evaluate the TRU burning potential of different reactor fleets, and the pos...
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6 August 2024
A simplified demonstration for nuclear criticality safety application.
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1 August 2024
A subgroup under the Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety, assessing nuclear data uncertainty on used fuel inventory
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1 August 2024
NEA/CSNI/R(2023)4
Rising international interest in increasing fuel burnup limits and fuel cycle length may require fuel enrichment above 5% and high reactivity/high suppression core designs. Based on this interest in ...
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31 July 2024
A healthy safety culture has long been considered essential to maintaining high levels of nuclear safety. Although safety goals across countries are similar, the operational realities vary due to a r...
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30 July 2024
健全な安全文化は、原子力安全を高いレベルで維持するために必須なことであると考えられてきた。各国が目指すことは類似しているが、国の文化的特性を含む様々な要因により、実際の取り組み状況は異なる。このような特性は、安全文化に良い影響を与えることもあれば課題となることもある。したがって、原子力界においては、それぞれの文化的背景の中でどのような影響が存在するかを特定し、これらの影響が安全文化にどのような効...
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30 July 2024
30 July 2024
Tokyo International Forum
Country-specific Safety Culture Forum (CSSCF) Japan was initiated in late 2022, with the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO), the Federation of Electric Power C...
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29 July 2024
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), in co-ordination with the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) of Japan, hosted the “International Conference on Regulators’ Views and Priorities on Nuclear Safety and ...
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26 July 2024
The NEA nuclear science programme is developed and executed by the Nuclear Science Committee (NSC), comprising high-level scientific experts from all NEA member countries.
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26 July 2024
The International School on Simulation of Nuclear Reactor Systems (SINUS) provides hybrid, hands-on-training encompassing multiphysics modelling and simulation (M&S) and associated validation, verifi...
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26 July 2024
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26 July 2024
NEA/CSNI/R(2006)5
This document is intended to provide regulators, their technical support organisations and industry with a concise review of existing fuel experimental data at reactivity-initiated accident (RIA) and...
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25 July 2024
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25 July 2024