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18 May 2010
NEA/RWM(2010)9/PROV
The RWMC is implementing its programme of work in the field of long-term preservation of information and memory. This document describes proposed goals and deliverables of a RWMC project over the per...
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18 May 2010
This report is based on a study carried out by the NEA Decommissioning Cost Estimation Group (DCEG) on decommissioning cost elements, estimation practices and reporting requirements. Its findings ind...
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17 May 2010
NEA/CNRA/R(2010)3
Consistent with the CNRA/CSNI Joint Strategic Plan (2005-2009) and CNRA Operating Plan, the WGRNR began in May 2008 a task of examining and documenting the various practices used by regulatory author...
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17 May 2010
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12 May 2010
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12 May 2010
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7 May 2010
NEA/RWM(2010)8
The work of the RWMC Regulators’ Forum on regulation and safety criteria for geological disposal of radioactive wastes, which culminated in the Tokyo workshop of January 2009, has identified a number...
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6 May 2010
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6 May 2010
L’expérience internationale considérable accumulée au cours des 20 dernières années nous montre que les installations nucléaires peuvent être démantelées dans des conditions de sûreté, puis déclassée...
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5 May 2010
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28 April 2010
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27 April 2010
NEA/CSNI/R(2010)1
In 1986, a working group of the NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations issued a state-of-the-art report on water reactor fuel behaviour in design-basis accident (DBA) conditions. The re...
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23 April 2010
Experience from decommissioning projects suggests that the decommissioning of nuclear power plants could be made easier if it received greater consideration at the design stage and during the operati...
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21 April 2010
NEA/RWM(2009)10
Summary Record of the 2nd Meeting of the Reversibility and Retrievability Project, 2009, NEA Headquarters, 3-5 June 2009
This summary record presents the main conclusions as well as a summary record ...
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16 April 2010
NEA/RWM(2007)7
Proposal to the RWMC
National programmes would benefit from a shared and broad-based understanding at the international level of the reversibility and retrievability concepts and of the related oppor...
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16 April 2010
NEA/RWM/M(2009)2
Summary record of the Reversibility and Retrievability Project meeting in Washington D.C., United States, 2-4 December 2009
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16 April 2010
L’expérience des projets de démantèlement de centrales nucléaires laisse entendre que l’on pourrait simplifier ces opérations si l’on y accordait davantage d’attention au moment de la conception ou p...
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16 April 2010
Key concepts of radioactive waste management, such as safety, risk, reversibility and retrievability, carry different meanings for the technical community and for non-technical stakeholders. Similarl...
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15 April 2010
Les concepts clés de la gestion des déchets radioactifs, tels la sûreté, le risque, la réversibilité et la récupérabilité, ont des connotations différentes pour la communauté scientifique et pour les...
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15 April 2010
La thématique de ce 7e atelier du Forum sur la confiance des parties prenantes (FSC) concernait la mise en œuvre du programme français de gestion des déchets de haute activité et de moyenne activité ...
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13 April 2010
This 7th Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) workshop focused on the territorial implementation of France’s high-level and long-lived intermediate-level waste management programme. Sessions address...
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12 April 2010
NEA/RWM/SORPTION(2010)1
This document is the summary record of the meeting of the Management Board of the NEA Sorption Project Phase III, held at the NEA Offices, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France on 5-6 November 2009.
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9 April 2010
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8 April 2010
National radioactive waste management programmes are in various phases of siting facilities and rely on distinct technical approaches for different categories of waste. In all cases, it is necessary ...
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6 April 2010
La notevole esperienza internazionale acquisita negli ultimi venti anni dimostra che gli impianti nucleari possono essere disattivati e smantellati (decommissioning) in sicurezza alla fine del loro e...
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3 April 2010
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27 March 2010
NEA/RWM(2010)7
Long-term preservation of records, knowledge and memory is an important component of the RWMC programme of work. As part of its series of initiatives in this area, the RWMC surveyed national programm...
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26 March 2010
This joint report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) is the seventh in a series of studies on electricity generating costs. It presents the latest data...
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25 March 2010
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24 March 2010
À l’heure actuelle, on observe une variabilité considérable dans le format, le contenu et les pratiques d’estimation des coûts, que ce soit à l’intérieur d’un même pays ou lorsque l’on franchit les f...
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22 March 2010
Public attitudes to nuclear power are critical in shaping nuclear policies in OECD/NEA countries and the latter will only be able to make use of this energy source if a well-informed public considers...
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22 March 2010
Les réactions du public face à l’énergie nucléaire sont fondamentales pour la détermination des politiques nucléaires dans les pays de l’OCDE/AEN, et ces derniers ne pourront faire appel à cette sour...
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22 March 2010
Currently, the format, content and practice of cost estimation vary considerably both within and between countries, which makes it very difficult to compare estimates, even for similar types of facil...
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22 March 2010
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18 March 2010
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15 March 2010
Alors que les programmes nationaux de stockage géologique progressent vers leur mise en œuvre, le concept d’« optimisation » et les exigences réglementaires associées suscitent une attention accrue. ...
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12 March 2010
As national geological disposal programmes progress towards implementation, the concept of “optimisation” and related requirements are receiving increased attention. Exchanges within NEA expert group...
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11 March 2010
Many countries have been performing a wide range of research on the partitioning and transmutation (P&T) of minor actinides and fission products. The aim is to provide greater flexibility in terms of...
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10 March 2010
NEA/RWM(2010)1
This document describes the achievements and programme of work of the working parties of the Radioactive Waste Management Committee. It was prepared for presentation at the RWMC-43 meeting held at th...
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9 March 2010
As part of its activities, the Regulators’ Forum of the NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee has been examining the regulatory criteria for the long-term performance of geological disposal. In ...
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3 March 2010
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3 March 2010
NEA/RWM(2010)3
At RWMC-42 a decision was made to produce a flyer on the waste management profession. A few countries provided relevant materials. Discussions within the RWMC Bureau produced the hereby provided "vis...
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2 March 2010
NEA/RWM(2010)2
The RWMC Bureau suggests that a text of 10-15 pages be prepared as input to the International Conference on Geological Repositories (ICGR-2011) conference and finalised thereafter. The text would foc...
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2 March 2010
Le présent document donne une vue d’ensemble synthétique des avancées de la réglementation et des recommandations, aux niveaux tant international que national, et des initiatives internationales et m...
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24 February 2010
This paper provides in a concise form an overview of the development of regulation and guidance at both national and international levels, on international and multi-national initiatives for developi...
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24 February 2010
NEA/RWM/WPDD(2010)2
This document is the summary record of the topical session on Management of Large Components from Decommissioning to Storage and Disposal held at the Working Party on Decommissioning and Dismantling'...
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22 February 2010
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12 February 2010
NEA/CNRA/R(2010)1
These proceedings cover the 9th International Workshop held by the WGIP on regulatory inspection. THe focus of this workshop was regulatory inspection activities in 3 main areas:
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4 February 2010
NEA/CNRA/R(2010)2
This appendix provides the complete compilation of responses received to the question issued in conjunction with the workshop held on 1-5 June 2008 in Porvoo (Finland), dealing with Training and Qual...
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4 February 2010
NEA/RWM(2010)5
At its 2009 meeting, RWMC members were very positive on starting an initiative on long-term preservation of information and memory. The topic is broad and should be addressed in well-defined packages...
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3 February 2010
NEA/RWM/RF(2010)1
The present report outlines the potential merits of R&D work carried out by the regulator. It summarises the results of a questionnaire that was circulated among the members of the Regulators' Forum ...
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29 January 2010
NEA/RWM/RF(2010)2
All RF colleagues are asked to provide written replies to questions listed in this document. Responses will be compiled and analysed, and the analysis will be distributed a few days prior to RWMC-43....
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29 January 2010
NEA/RWM/WPDD(2009)9
This document has been prepared by the Nuclear Energy Agency’s (NEA’s) Working Party on Decommissioning and Dismantling (WPDD) in collaboration with the European Commission’s Directorate General for ...
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20 January 2010
NEA/RWM/WPDD(2010)1
This document provides a brief summary of the decisions made during the 10th meeting of the Working Party on Decommissioning and Dismantling (WPDD), held on 17-19 November 2009.
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18 January 2010
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10 January 2010
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)14
The workshop on Taking Account of Feedback on Sump Clogging was held at the OECD Conference Centre in Paris, France on 4-5 December 2008. It was organised under the auspices of the Committee on Nucle...
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8 January 2010
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)12
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is to an increasing extent being adopted in nuclear reactor safety analyses as a tool that enables specific safety relevant phenomena occurring in the reactor coola...
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6 January 2010
This report provides the specification for the uncertainty exercises of the international OECD/NEA, NRC and NUPEC BFBT benchmark problem including the elemental task. The specification was prepared j...
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1 January 2010
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law. It provides subscribers with authoritative and comprehensive informati...
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31 December 2010
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31 December 2010
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31 December 2010
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31 December 2010
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23 December 2009
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23 December 2009
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23 December 2009
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23 December 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)13
The Best-estimate Methods – Uncertainty and Sensitivity Evaluation (BEMUSE) programme, promoted by the Working Group on Accident Management and Analysis (WGAMA) and endorsed by the Committee on the S...
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21 December 2009
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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18 December 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)5
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) mandated the preparation of a SOAR with four main objectives:
- to assess the status of existing experimental data and analytical capabiliti...
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17 December 2009
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16 December 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)9
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) considered there was a need to review the state-of-the-art tech...
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14 December 2009
It is a dynamic time for the nuclear power sector. Existing reactor control rooms are undergoing various forms of modernisation. New reactors are being built in many countries and advanced reactors a...
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11 December 2009
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11 December 2009
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10 December 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)11
There is a growing interest from some nuclear regulatory bodies, as well as licensees, in methods and approaches that can be used to ensure that the licensee organisations are well structured and hav...
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3 December 2009
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30 November 2009
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17 November 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)10
The NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) authorised formation of a task group in January 2008 to examine Defence in Depth of Electrical Systems and Grid Interaction with nuclea...
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9 November 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)19
Several OECD member countries agreed to establish the OECD/NEA Piping Failure Data Exchange Project (OPDE) to encourage multilateral co-operation in the collection and analysis of data relating to de...
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5 November 2009
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5 November 2009
Considerable international experience gained over the last 20 years demonstrates that nuclear facilities can be safely dismantled and decommissioned once a decision is made to cease operations and pe...
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23 October 2009
This summary highlights the main lessons to be learnt from the Third International Conference on Geological Repositories, held in Berne, Switzerland, on 15-17 October 2007 as well as final recommenda...
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20 October 2009
These proceedings include the papers presented at the Third International Conference on Geological Repositories held in Berne, Switzerland, on 15-17 October 2007 as well as a summary which highlights...
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16 October 2009
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9 October 2009
This publication reports the conclusions from the work undertaken by Subgroup 23 of the NEA Working Party on International Nuclear Data Evaluation Co-operation (WPEC), whose mission was to produce an...
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27 September 2009
The Joint Evaluated Fission and Fusion (JEFF) Project is a collaborative effort among NEA Data Bank member countries to develop a reference nuclear data library for use in different energy applicatio...
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27 September 2009
Regional strategies can provide a useful framework for implementing innovative nuclear fuel cycles. The appropriate sharing of efforts and facilities among different countries is necessary in today’s...
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27 September 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)6
In 2000, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) approved the establishment of a Fire Incident Records Exchange Project on collection of data on fire events at nuclear power plant...
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24 September 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)2
This report documents the proceedings of a Committe on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) workshop on risk-informed piping integrity management. Hosted by the Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear (CS...
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23 September 2009
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9 September 2009
This new edition of Nuclear Energy Data, the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s annual compilation of essential statistics on nuclear energy in OECD countries, provides information on plans for new nuclear...
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4 September 2009
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24 August 2009
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24 August 2009
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24 August 2009
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24 August 2009
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24 August 2009
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24 August 2009
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24 August 2009
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24 August 2009
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24 August 2009
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24 August 2009
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24 August 2009
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24 August 2009
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19 August 2009
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19 August 2009
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19 August 2009
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19 August 2009
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19 August 2009
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19 August 2009
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19 August 2009
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19 August 2009
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19 August 2009
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19 August 2009
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19 August 2009
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19 August 2009
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19 August 2009
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19 August 2009
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19 August 2009
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19 August 2009
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18 August 2009
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18 August 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)1
Following the recommendations of a previous meeting held in Jeju, Korea on 6-8 November 2006, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) approved a proposal of the Working Group on I...
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13 August 2009
The evolution of the system of radiological protection is of great interest to governments and regulatory authorities, in particular in Asia. In this context, the Japanese government hosted a series ...
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12 August 2009
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4 August 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)3
This Phase II exercise was the first benchmarking of severe accident codes promoted by NEA in almost 20 years. The objective of the exercise was to perform a code benchmark on a well-defined plant (s...
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3 August 2009
The NEA Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety established an Expert Group on Criticality Excursion Analysis in 2001 to explore the performance of various transient codes to evaluate criticality...
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17 July 2009
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16 July 2009
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16 July 2009
NEA/RWM/WPDD(2009)3
At its ninth meeting (11-14 November 2008, at Senec, Slovak Republic), the WPDD held a topical session on Applying Decommissioning Experience to the Design and Operation of New Plants. In preparation...
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15 July 2009
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13 July 2009
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13 July 2009
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29 June 2009
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2009)411
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29 June 2009
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2009)412
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29 June 2009
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2009)414
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29 June 2009
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2009)415
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29 June 2009
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2009)416
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29 June 2009
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2009)418
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29 June 2009
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2009)419
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29 June 2009
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2009)413
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29 June 2009
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2009)417
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29 June 2009
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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24 June 2009
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16 June 2009
In November 2006, Hungary hosted the 6th National Workshop and Community Visit of the NEA Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC). Participants included institutional authorities, local residents and s...
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12 June 2009
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28 May 2009
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25 May 2009
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19 May 2009
NEA/CNRA/R(2009)3
In 2006, the CNRA Working Group on Operating Experience (WGOE) began the task of examining national and international operating events databases in order to identify any potential safety issues relat...
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19 May 2009
NEA/CNRA/R(2009)2
In order to capture the current situation, members of the WGOE IOEF Task Group provided short narratives outlining their national OEF practices. The IOEF Report notes that, in order to get a comprehe...
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11 May 2009
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11 May 2009
NEA/NSC/DOC(2009)8
Saratoga Springs, New York, 6 May 2009 - Meeting summary
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11 May 2009
NEA/NSC/DOC(2009)9
Pennsylvania State University, USA, 27-28 April 2009
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11 May 2009
NEA/RWM/RF(2009)1
This document reports the main findings from the RWMC Regulators’ Forum (RF) Workshop, as discussed and approved at the RF meeting in March 2009. The workshop was held in Tokyo, Japan on 20-22 Januar...
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6 May 2009
A “safety case” is the synthesis of evidence, analyses and arguments that quantify and substantiate a claim that a geological repository for radioactive waste will be safe after closure and beyond th...
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5 May 2009
Un « dossier de sûreté » est la synthèse des preuves, analyses et arguments qui permettent de quantifier et de justifier que le dépôt de déchets radioactifs en formation géologique restera sûr après ...
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5 May 2009
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5 May 2009
The JEFF-3.1.1 Nuclear Data Library; NEA Data Bank (May 2009).
This report describes the incremental method used to improve JEFF evaluations since the release of the JEF-2.2 library in 1992. In order...
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1 May 2009
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27 April 2009
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27 April 2009
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law. It provides subscribers with authoritative and comprehensive informati...
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8 April 2009
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3 April 2009
A common theme throughout the series of NEA regulatory guidance reports, or “green booklets”, is the premise that the fundamental objective of all nuclear safety regulatory bodies is to ensure that n...
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2 April 2009
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1 April 2009
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1 April 2009
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31 March 2009
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31 March 2009
Disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel in engineered facilities, or repositories, located deep underground in suitable geological formations is being developed worldwide as t...
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24 March 2009
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24 March 2009
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23 March 2009
Geological settings selected as potential host formations for the deep geological disposal of radioactive waste are chosen for, among other assets, their long-term stability and buffering capacity ag...
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20 March 2009
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18 March 2009
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18 March 2009
A key challenge in the development of safety cases for the deep geological disposal of radioactive waste is handling the long time frame over which the radioactive waste remains hazardous. The intrin...
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13 March 2009
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13 March 2009
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6 March 2009
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6 March 2009
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6 March 2009
NEA/RWM(2009)3/REV1
At its March 2007 meeting, the RWMC agreed to start an initiative on reversibility and retrievability (R&R), with a particular focus on policy and regulatory issues. The R&R initiative is being c...
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5 March 2009
NEA/RWM(2009)7
The RWMC vision document on knowledge consolidation and transfer, NEA/RWM(2009)4/PROV, identifies the sharing of information across generations as an area deserving further development. This document...
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5 March 2009
NEA/RWM(2009)4/PROV
The RWMC has adopted knowledge consolidation and transfer as one of the pillars of the Committee’s modus operandi and work programme. This is seen as a natural enhancement of the RWMC role of advanci...
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4 March 2009
NEA/RWM(2009)3
At its March 2007 meeting, the RWMC agreed to start an initiative on reversibility and retrievability (R&R), with a particular focus on policy and regulatory issues. The R&R initiative is being carri...
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3 March 2009
Errors during maintenance and periodic testing are significant contributors to plant events. These errors may not always be revealed by post-maintenance tests and may remain undetected for extended p...
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26 February 2009
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26 February 2009
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20 February 2009
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13 February 2009
NEA/CNRA/R(2009)1
Fire is a one of the hazards that is most commonly encountered in Nuclear Power Plants and could result in damages to safety related systems and to systems important to obtain and maintain safe shutd...
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10 February 2009
Future nuclear fuel cycles could effectively address radioactive waste issues with the implementation of partitioning and transmutation (P&T). Previous studies have defined the infrastructure require...
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3 February 2009
Nuclear power plant modifications may be needed for a number of different reasons. These include physical ageing of plant systems, structures and components; obsolescence in hardware and software; fe...
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3 February 2009
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3 February 2009
NEA/RWM/WPDD(2008)12/REV1
This document has been prepared by the Nuclear Energy Agency’s (NEA) Working Party on Decommissioning and Dismantling (WPDD) in collaboration with the European Commission (DGTREN) and the IAEA. I...
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2 February 2009
by Malcom Rand (Chairman), Jean Fuger, Ingmar Grenthe, Volker Neck and Dhanpat Rai
This volume is the 11th in the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Chemical Thermodynamics series. It is based on a cri...
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22 January 2009
NEA/RWM/RF(2008)2
This document reviews the regulatory developments in the field of geologic disposal since the Cordoba Workshop of 1997. It supports the Tokyo workshop of the RWMC Regulators' Forum (20-22 January 200...
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9 January 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)13
During the mid 1990s a task group was formed within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development/Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD/NEA) to exchange information on events involving computer-ba...
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5 January 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)12
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Human and Organisational Factors (WGHOF) is tasked to improve the current understanding of human and organisational perfor...
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1 January 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)11
The NEA Working Group on Human and Organisational Factors (WGHOF) is tasked to improve the current understanding of human and organisational performance and the way in which this impacts upon nuclear...
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1 January 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)15
The present report has been prepared by the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Fuel Safety (WGFS) and covers the following technical aspects:
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1 January 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)8
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) established the Task Group on Advanced Reactor Experimental Facilities (TAREF) in 2008 with the objective of providing an overview of facil...
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1 January 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)7
This technical opinion paper represents the consensus of the Committe on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Human and Organisational Factors (WGHOF) on the state of research ...
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1 January 2009
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law. It provides subscribers with authoritative and comprehensive informati...
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31 December 2009
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31 December 2009
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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31 December 2009
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31 December 2009
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31 December 2009
En radioprotection, on entend par « libération » la décision prise par l'autorité compétente de lever tous les contrôles réglementaires appliqués jusqu'alors aux matériaux et bâtiments radioactifs. C...
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31 December 2009
NEA/RWM/RF(2008)6
The last decade has seen significant progress in several countries on the siting of repositories for deep disposal of long-lived radioactive waste. In parallel with this, regulatory authorities have ...
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19 December 2008
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18 December 2008
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18 December 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)14
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) has as a general mandate to advance the current understanding o...
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17 December 2008
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17 December 2008
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17 December 2008
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16 December 2008
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16 December 2008
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16 December 2008
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16 December 2008
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16 December 2008
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16 December 2008
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16 December 2008
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16 December 2008
Alors que plusieurs pays construisent des centrales nucléaires et que bien d’autres envisagent d’avoir recours à l’énergie nucléaire pour produire l’électricité nécessaire pour faire face à une deman...
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15 December 2008
NEA/RWM/RF(2008)5/PROV
The present document summarizes and reviews the concepts relevant to the optimisation of geological disposal systems as they are outlined in national and international guidance as well as in the work...
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27 November 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)6/VOL3
The Best-estimate Methods – Uncertainty and Sensitivity Evaluation (BEMUSE) programme, promoted by the Working Group on Accident Management and Analysis (WGAMA) and endorsed by the Committee on the S...
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26 November 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)6/VOL2
The Best-estimate Methods – Uncertainty and Sensitivity Evaluation (BEMUSE) programme, promoted by the Working Group on Accident Management and Analysis (WGAMA) and endorsed by the Committee on the S...
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26 November 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)6/VOL1
The Best-estimate Methods – Uncertainty and Sensitivity Evaluation (BEMUSE) programme, promoted by the Working Group on Accident Management and Analysis (WGAMA) and endorsed by the Committee on the S...
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26 November 2008
The radiological concept of clearance can be defined as the release of radioactive materials or buildings from any further regulatory control applied for radiological protection purposes by the compe...
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19 November 2008
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13 November 2008
NEA/RWM/WPDD(2008)12
This document has been prepared by the Nuclear Energy Agency’s (NEA) Working Party on Decommissioning and Dismantling (WPDD) in collaboration with the European Commission (DGTREN) and the IAEA. It is...
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4 November 2008
NEA/RWM/FSC(2008)3
As part of its programme of work, the OECD/NEA Forum on Stakeholder Confidence continues to investigate the theme of “Link Between RD&D and Stakeholder Confidence”. A topical session was held on 4 Ju...
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23 October 2008
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10 October 2008
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10 October 2008
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law. It provides readers with authoritative and comprehensive information o...
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7 October 2008
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6 October 2008
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3 October 2008
The removal of fuel from a permanently shutdown nuclear facility eliminates the major source of radiological hazard, a nuclear criticality. Combined with the cessation of operations at high temperatu...
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25 September 2008
L’enlèvement des matières irradiées et plus particulièrement du combustible à l'issue de l'arrêt définitif d'une installation élimine la source principale de risque radiologique, le risque de critici...
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25 September 2008
NEA/RWM(2008)9
This document is a status report of the Reversibility and Retrievability Project subsequent to a meeting held in Toronto, Canada in October 2008.
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24 September 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)2
The OECD-IAEA Paks Fuel Project was established in 2005 as a joint project between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). The IAEA provided financial ...
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18 September 2008
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9 September 2008
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5 September 2008
Le Comité de la gestion des déchets radioactifs (RWMC) de l’AEN a mis en avant les fondements environnementaux et éthiques relatifs au stockage géologique et s’est prononcé sur sa faisabilité techniq...
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1 September 2008
Preservation of know-how in the nuclear field is promoted through the activities of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Data Bank. One area of importance concerns methods for solving radiation transport p...
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1 September 2008
This publication reports the conclusions from the work undertaken by Subgroup 26 of the NEA Working Party on International Nuclear Data Evaluation Co-operation (WPEC), which focused on the developmen...
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1 September 2008
The NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) has underscored the environmental and ethical basis for geological disposal as well as its technical feasibility in a number of previous collecti...
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1 September 2008
Cette étude met en évidence les facteurs clés affectant le calendrier du stockage définitif des déchets radioactifs de haute activité. Elle analyse comment l'acceptation sociale, la robustesse techni...
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14 August 2008
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14 August 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)10
Regulatory bodies are taking a growing interest in the issue of safety culture, and several are actively working to develop and implement approaches to maintaining oversight of licensee safety cultur...
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1 August 2008
NEA/RWM/IGSC(2008)2
This report of the NEA Working Group on Approaches and Methods for Integrating Geological Information in the Safety Case (AMIGO) summarizes the responses from 17 AMIGO participants, including both im...
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23 July 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)7
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) has as a general mandate to advance the current understanding o...
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17 July 2008
This new edition of Nuclear Energy Data, the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s annual compilation of essential statistics on nuclear energy in OECD countries, provides information on the latest plans for ...
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11 July 2008
Structural materials research is a field of growing relevance in the nuclear sector, especially for the different innovative reactor systems being developed within the Generation IV International For...
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10 July 2008
Regulating the long-term safety of geological disposal of radioactive waste is a key part of making progress on the radioactive waste management issue. A survey of member countries has shown that dif...
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10 July 2008
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2008)400
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8 July 2008
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2008)401
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8 July 2008
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2008)402
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8 July 2008
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2008)403
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8 July 2008
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2008)404
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8 July 2008
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2008)405
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8 July 2008
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2008)406
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8 July 2008
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2008)407
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8 July 2008
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2008)408
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8 July 2008
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2008)409
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8 July 2008
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2008)410
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8 July 2008
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2007)388
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8 July 2008
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2007)389
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8 July 2008
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2007)390
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8 July 2008
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2007)391
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8 July 2008
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2007)392
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8 July 2008
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2007)393
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8 July 2008
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2007)394
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8 July 2008
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2007)395
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8 July 2008
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2007)396
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NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2007)397
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8 July 2008
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2007)398
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8 July 2008
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2007)399
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8 July 2008
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2006)371
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8 July 2008
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2006)372
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8 July 2008
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2006)373
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NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2006)374
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NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2006)375
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NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2006)376
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NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2006)377
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NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2006)378
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NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2006)379
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NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2006)380
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NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2006)381
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NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2006)382
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NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2006)383
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NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2006)384
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NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2006)385
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NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2006)386
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8 July 2008
NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2006)387
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8 July 2008
NEA/CNRA/R(2008)5
This revision of the CNRA Historical Record represents an up-to-date accounting of the work performed by the Committee since its conception in 1989. As noted during the 2004 review of the CNRA, “This...
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8 July 2008
NEA/CNRA/R(2008)6
CNRA held several workshops in 1996 and 2001 on the licensing of Digital I&C Systems and a Joint CSNI/CNRA Task Group presented a study on research and regulatory needs in this are in 2006. This work...
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8 July 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)8
Common-cause failure (CCF) events can significantly impact the availability of safety systems of nuclear power plants. For this reason, the International Common-Cause Failure Data Exchange (ICDE) Pro...
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1 July 2008
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17 June 2008
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law. It provides readers with authoritative and comprehensive information o...
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15 June 2008
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13 June 2008
NEA/RWM(2008)5/REV2
This document represents the final version of the collective statement of the Radioactiave Waste Management Committee (RWMC) on moving forward with geologic disposal. The intent is to produce a publi...
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12 June 2008
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11 June 2008
With several countries building nuclear power plants and many more considering the use of nuclear power to produce electricity in order to meet rising demand, the uranium industry has become the focu...
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10 June 2008
NEA/RWM/WPDD(2008)8
At its ninth meeting, held at Harwell, UK on 7-9 November 2007, the Working Party on Decommissioning and Dismantling (WPDD) held a topical session on Human and Organisational Factors in Decommissioni...
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6 June 2008
NEA/RWM/WPDD(2008)6
At its first plenary meeting, held in Krefeld, Germany on 13-14 May 2008, the Decommissioning Cost Estimation Group (DCEG) of the Working Parting on Decommissioning and Dismantling (WPDD) held a topi...
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4 June 2008
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28 May 2008
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27 May 2008
This study identifies key factors influencing the timing of high-level waste (HLW) disposal and examines how social acceptability, technical soundness, environmental responsibility and economic feasi...
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15 May 2008
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15 May 2008
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13 May 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)7/REV1
The Operating Plan describes the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) responsibility and organisation, overall scope of work and working methods, and is supplemented by the so-call...
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11 April 2008
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11 April 2008
NEA/NSC/DOC(2008)5
Garching, Germany, 31 March -1 April 2008
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9 April 2008
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3 April 2008
La réglementation de la sûreté à long terme du stockage géologique des déchets radioactifs pose des défis particuliers en raison des vastes échelles de temps concernées. Ce rapport a été préparé afin...
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21 March 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(1994)24/VOL II
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14 March 2008
Since its inception the NEA Committee on Radiation Protection and Public Health (CRPPH) has been involved in the assessment and implementation of the recommendations of the International Commission o...
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13 March 2008
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13 March 2008
The fundamental objective of all nuclear safety regulatory bodies is to ensure that nuclear facilities are operated, as well as decommissioned, in an acceptably safe manner. However, in meeting this ...
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29 February 2008
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29 February 2008
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18 February 2008
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14 February 2008
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4 February 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)17
At the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) meeting in June 2003, a proposal of the CSNI Working Group on the Integrity and Ageing (WGIAGE) to examine the differences in approach b...
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1 February 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)13
Following recommendations made at an “Exploratory Meeting of Experts to Define an Action Plan on the Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Codes to Nuclear Reactor Safety (NRS) Problems”,...
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28 January 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)1
Common-cause-failure (CCF) events can significantly impact the availability of safety systems of nuclear power plants. For this reason, the International Common Cause Failure Data Exchange (ICDE) pro...
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25 January 2008
NEA/CNRA/R(2008)1
With the development of the Joint CSNI/CNRA Strategic Plan and the drafting of a CNRA Operating Plan, the need to develop operating guidelines was recognised. These documents along with the Review Re...
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22 January 2008
NEA/CNRA/R(2008)2
The Joint CSNI/CNRA Strategic Plan states in its last paragraph that: "CNRA and CSNI each prepare an operating plan which describes in more detail their committeeís organisation, planned activities, ...
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22 January 2008
NEA/CNRA/R(2008)3
The main objective of the CNRA Working Group on Operating Experience (WGOE) is to share experience and knowledge, analyse and provide expert insights from operating experience to reach timely conclus...
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22 January 2008
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22 January 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)3
At their meeting of December 2006, the NEA Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) and the NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) agreed to hold a workshop on the Role ...
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1 January 2008
Emergency situations demand that actions be taken by the responsible organisations at the local, national and international levels to mitigate their impact on people and the environment. In order to ...
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31 December 2008
Since the beginning of the 1990s, the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has offered its member countries a forum for improving efficiency and effectiveness in nuclear emergency management, focusing in...
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31 December 2008
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31 December 2008
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31 December 2008
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31 December 2008
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31 December 2008
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31 December 2008
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law. It provides readers with authoritative and comprehensive information o...
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23 December 2007
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19 December 2007
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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14 December 2007
L’environnement sociopolitique de la gestion des déchets radioactifs a connu de profonds changements ces dernières années. La concertation avec les parties prenantes est devenue l’un des principes di...
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12 December 2007
In recent years the socio-political environment of radioactive waste management (RWM) has been changing in a significant way. Stakeholder dialogue has become a leading principle. How have RWM organis...
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12 December 2007
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4 December 2007
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21 November 2007
In the field of coupled neutronics/thermal-hydraulics computation there is a need to enhance scientific knowledge in order to develop advanced modelling techniques for new nuclear technologies and co...
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16 November 2007
One of the main missions of nuclear regulators is to protect the public, and this cannot be completely achieved without public confidence. The more a regulatory process is transparent, the more such ...
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16 November 2007
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15 November 2007
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14 November 2007
This publication presents the conclusions of the work undertaken by Subgroup 25 of the NEA Working Party on International Evaluation Co-operation, which focused on the assessment and improvement of t...
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14 November 2007
NEA/RWM(2007)2
This report describes the strategic areas in which the RWMC plans to focus its efforts in future years based on the identification of the major challenges currently faced by national programmes. The ...
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12 November 2007
Regulating the long-term safety of geological disposal of radioactive waste poses special challenges due to the very long timescales involved. This report has been prepared to help foster a common un...
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30 October 2007
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29 October 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)8
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Human and Oganisational Factors (WGHOF) and the Halden Reactor Project (HRP) hosted a joint workshop titled “Future Contro...
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15 October 2007
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12 October 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)4
The Best-estimate Methods – Uncertainty and Sensitivity Evaluation (BEMUSE) programme promoted by the Working Group on Accident Management and Analysis (WGAMA) and endorsed by the Committee on the Sa...
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11 October 2007
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25 September 2007
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25 September 2007
NEA/NSC/DOC(2007)16
Paris, France, 8-9 May 2007
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19 September 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)11
The Steam Explosion Resolution for Nuclear Applications (SERENA) programme stems from concerns expressed by the Senior Group of Experts on Nuclear Safety Research Facilities and Programmes (SESAR/FAP...
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17 September 2007
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17 September 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)10
The main objective of ISP-47 was to assess the capabilities of lumped parameter (LP) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes in the area of containment thermal-hydraulics. Following the recommen...
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11 September 2007
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29 August 2007
Ce rapport de synthèse sur le Financement du démantèlement : éthique, mise en œuvre, incertitudes a été rédigé en s’appuyant sur la littérature récente et sur les informations présentées lors des réu...
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28 August 2007
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20 August 2007
by Jordi Bruno (Chairman), Dirk Bosbach, Dmitrii Kulik and Alexandra Navrotsky
This volume provides a state-of-the-art report on the modelling of aqueous-solid solution systems by the combined use of...
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25 July 2007
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25 July 2007
The sixth workshop of the OECD/NEA Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) was hosted by ENRESA, the Spanish agency responsible for the management of radioactive waste and the dismantling of nuclear po...
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11 July 2007
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4 July 2007
NEA/RWM/RF(2007)3
This interim document provides a summary of viewpoints, papers and written reports of the NEA/RWMC workshop on Regulating for the Long-Term Safety of Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste: Practic...
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29 June 2007
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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28 June 2007
The long-term safety of deep disposal of radioactive waste will be strongly dependent on the performance of the geological setting. The geology fulfils important safety functions including isolating ...
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22 June 2007
The NEA has studied multiple recycling issues associated with various reactor systems fuelled with mixed-oxide (MOX) and published a series of computational physics benchmarks. This has led to improv...
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21 June 2007
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21 June 2007
The NEA has studied multiple recycling issues associated with various reactor systems fuelled with mixed-oxide (MOX) and published a series of computational physics benchmarks. This has led to improv...
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21 June 2007
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20 June 2007
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20 June 2007
NEA/RWM/RF(2007)1
Le projet LTSC (Long-term Safety Criteria) a été initié en 2004 par le Forum des régulateurs du Comité de la gestion des déchets radioactifs (RWMC-RF) dans le but d'examiner les critères utilisés dan...
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20 June 2007
Any long-term radioactive waste management project is likely to last decades to centuries. It requires a physical site and will impact in a variety of ways on the surrounding community over that whol...
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14 June 2007
Tout projet de gestion de déchets radioactifs à long terme durera vraisemblablement des décennies, voire des siècles. Il nécessitera un site et influera de bien de manières sur la communauté environn...
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14 June 2007
Un nombre significatif d’installations nucléaires devra être démantelé dans les prochaines décennies. Dans ce contexte, les pays membres de l’AEN accordent de plus en plus d’importance à l’implicatio...
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14 June 2007
This new edition of Nuclear Energy Data, the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s annual compilation of essential statistics on nuclear energy in OECD countries, offers projections lengthened to 2030 for the...
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14 June 2007
Significant numbers of nuclear facilities will need to be decommissioned in the coming decades. In this context, NEA member countries are placing increasing emphasis on the involvement of stakeholder...
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14 June 2007
NEA/RWM(2007)9
This document provides an overview of the topical session on Approaches and Practices in Decommissioning of Facilities and the Management of Radioactive Waste from Non-Nuclear Fuel Cycle Related Acti...
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14 June 2007
L'intérêt pour l'énergie nucléaire va croissant dans de nombreux pays en raison de sa capacité d'accroître la sécurité d'approvisionnement énergétique et de réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de se...
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13 June 2007
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5 June 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)15
The Material Scaling (MASCA) Project investigated in-vessel phenomena during a severe accident. In particular, it addressed the influence of the chemical composition of the molten corium on the heat ...
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1 June 2007
As part of the development of advanced nuclear systems, including accelerator-driven systems (ADS) proposed for high-level radioactive waste transmutation and generation IV reactors, heavy liquid met...
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31 May 2007
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30 May 2007
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29 May 2007
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29 May 2007
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29 May 2007
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29 May 2007
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25 May 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2006)8
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI), at its meeting in June 2003, agreed to conduct a survey to collect information that help to identify common needs and area of potential co...
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24 May 2007
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24 May 2007
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23 May 2007
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18 May 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)5
In May 2002, an “Exploratory Meeting of Experts to Define an Action Plan on the Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Codes to Nuclear Reactor Safety Problems” was held in Aix-en-Provence...
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15 May 2007
NEA/NSC/DOC(2007)8
Monterey, California, USA, 17 April 2007
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15 May 2007
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9 May 2007
NEA/RWM/WPDD(2007)3
At its seventh meeting, held at the NEA Offices in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France on 23-25 October 2006, the Working Party on Decommissioning and Dismantling (WPDD) held a topical session on Emerging Is...
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3 May 2007
Interest in nuclear energy continues to grow in many countries as a means to ensure security of energy supply and to limit greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector. In this context, recyclable ...
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27 April 2007
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26 April 2007
NEA/CNRA/R(2007)1
The NEA Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) believes that an essential factor in ensuring the safety of nuclear installations is the continuing exchange and analysis of technical inform...
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26 April 2007
This technical opinion paper represents the consensus of risk analysts in NEA member countries on the current state of the art of level-2 probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) and its applications in...
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20 April 2007
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20 April 2007
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) hosted an international symposium on “Safety Cases for the Deep Disposal of Radioactive Waste: Where Do We Stand?” in January 2007. The NEA has spearheaded import...
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12 April 2007
The presence of several barriers serving complementary safety functions enhances confidence that radioactive waste placed in deep geological repositories will be adequately isolated and contained to ...
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12 April 2007
NEA/RWM/IGSC(2007)4/PROV
This document outlines the preliminary programme and pre-registration steps to participate in the third AMIGO Workshop on Approaches and Challenges for the Use of Geological Information in the Safety...
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10 April 2007
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law. It provides readers with authoritative and comprehensive information o...
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7 April 2007
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6 April 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2006)7
Due to the importance of human and organisational performance on nuclear plant maintenance, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Special Experts’ Group on Human and Organisatio...
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5 April 2007
NEA/CNRA/R(2007)2
This appendix provides the complete compilation of responses received to the questionnaire issued in conjunction with the workshop announcements. The responses are provided as received, with changes ...
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29 March 2007
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28 March 2007
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26 March 2007
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24 March 2007
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21 March 2007
La première parution du « Livre rouge », préparé conjointement par l'Agence de l'OCDE pour l'énergie nucléaire (AEN) et l'Agence internationale de l'énergie atomique (AIEA), remonte à 1965 et, depuis...
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2 March 2007
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26 February 2007
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26 February 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)1
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency has long recognised the importance of iodine behaviour and has organised workshops and international standard problems on the subject. In the meantime, experimental and...
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23 February 2007
NEA/NSC/DOC(2007)1/1
Particle transport calculations in three-dimensional configurations are becoming prevalent in nuclear applications. This places a premium on determining the accuracy of numerical solutions to practic...
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23 February 2007
Innovation has been a driving force in the successful deployment of nuclear energy and remains essential today for its sustainable future. As nuclear energy is an attractive option for ensuring diver...
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21 February 2007
L'innovation a été un élément majeur dans le déploiement réussi de l'énergie nucléaire et demeure essentielle aujourd'hui pour son avenir durable. Dans la mesure où l'énergie nucléaire est une option...
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21 February 2007
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19 February 2007
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19 February 2007
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19 February 2007
In the deep disposal of radioactive waste, the presence of several barriers serving complementary safety functions enhances confidence that the waste will be isolated and contained to protect human h...
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16 February 2007
NEA/RWM/WPDD(2007)1
Significant numbers of nuclear power plants will reach the end of their operating lives in the coming decades or may be shut down for economic or other reasons. NEA Member countries are giving increa...
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14 February 2007
NEA/RWM(2007)1
This document describes the main highlights since the March 2006 meeting of the Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC-39) of each of its three working parties (IGSC, FSC and WPDD), providing a...
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12 February 2007
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8 February 2007
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5 February 2007
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19 January 2007
NEA/RWM/IGSC(2006)3
The report is aimed at interested parties that already have some detailed background knowledge of safety assessment methodologies and safety cases, including safety assessment practitioners and regul...
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4 January 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)9
In 1998, the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) issued a report on Future Nuclear Regulatory Challenges. This report discussed the potential erosion of safety margins as an area for fu...
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1 January 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)6
This report provides an overview of experimental facilities that can be used to address nuclear safety research issues in OECD member countries, and identifies priorities for organising international...
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1 January 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)3
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is to an increasing extent being adopted in nuclear reactor safety analyses as a tool that enables specific safety relevant phenomena occurring in the reactor coola...
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1 January 2007
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law. It provides subscribers with authoritative and comprehensive informati...
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29 December 2006
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29 December 2006
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29 December 2006
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29 December 2006
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29 December 2006
In the field of coupled neutronics/thermal-hydraulics computation there is a need to enhance scientific knowledge in order to develop advanced modelling techniques for new nuclear technologies and co...
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21 December 2006
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20 December 2006
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18 December 2006
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13 December 2006
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13 December 2006
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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8 December 2006
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6 December 2006
Subgroup 7 of the NEA Working Party on International Nuclear Data Co-operation (WPEC) was established to re-evaluate the nuclear data standards cross-section. These cross-section data are the basis f...
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29 November 2006
Nuclear Data for Improved LEU-LWR Reactivity Predictions
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29 November 2006
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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28 November 2006
Ce livre, préparé par des experts des pays membres de l'AEN, contient des données et des analyses relatives à la gestion et à la prolongation de la durée de vie des centrales nucléaires. Il couvre le...
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28 November 2006
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8 November 2006
NEA/CSNI/R(2006)6
The purpose of this report is to present in a concise form how some safety matters associated with currently operating light water reactors have been addressed. The issues discussed in this report ar...
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2 November 2006
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27 October 2006
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26 October 2006
NEA/RWM/FSC(2006)7
The "COWAM Spain" Initiative and the Current Project under Consideration for a National Interim Storage Facility for Spent Fuel and High Level Waste: The Sixth Workshop of the Forum on Stakeholder Co...
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26 October 2006
This book, prepared by NEA member country experts, contains data and analyses relevant to nuclear power plant life management and the plants' extended, longer-term operation (LTO). It addresses techn...
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24 October 2006
This status report on Decommissioning Funding: Ethics, Implementation, Uncertainties is based on a review of recent literature and materials presented at NEA meetings in 2003 and 2004, and particular...
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23 October 2006
NEA/RWM/WPDD(2006)10
This document has been prepared by the Working Party on Decommissioning and Dismantling (WPDD) in order to fulfil its role as an information centre within the NEA on international activities being pe...
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18 October 2006
NEA/RWM/CPD(2006)2
This report describes generic results obtained by the CPD on available adequate methods of measurement. Although part of the information exchanged within CPD is confidential in nature and is restrict...
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16 October 2006
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16 October 2006
NEA/RWM/CPD(2006)3
This report describes the progress and the generic results obtained by the CPD during 1995-2005. Although part of the information exchanged within CPD is confidential in nature and is restricted to p...
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11 October 2006
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11 October 2006
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10 October 2006
Depuis 2001, le prix de l'uranium a été multiplié par plus de cinq, à un rythme inégalé et pour atteindre des niveaux qui n'avaient pas été constatés depuis les années 70. L'industrie de l'uranium a ...
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3 October 2006
Ce rapport de synthèse sur la façon de Choisir des stratégies de démantèlement des installations nucléaires repose sur les points de vue et les informations présentés au cours d’un séminaire organisé...
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2 October 2006
This status report on Selecting Strategies for the Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities is based on the viewpoints and materials presented at a seminar held in Tarragona, Spain on 1-4 September 2003...
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2 October 2006
La libération des sites d’installations nucléaires des contrôles radiologiques est généralement l’une des dernières étapes du déclassement. À ce jour, seul un petit nombre de projets en ont fait l’ob...
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27 September 2006
Releasing the site of a nuclear installation from radiological control is usually one of the last steps of decommissioning. To date, site release has been practised in a limited number of cases only ...
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27 September 2006
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21 September 2006
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21 September 2006
The "Red Book", jointly prepared by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was first published in 1965 and has since grown to be a recognised world re...
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13 September 2006
The NEA Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety (WPNCS) established an Expert Group on Source Convergence in Criticality Safety Analysis (EGSCCSA) to explore the problems of slow convergence and ...
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11 September 2006
NEA/CNRA/R(2006)4
This report is the third in a series of the WGOE (Working Group on Operating Experience) of reports on recurring events. The first two reports NEA/CSNI/R(1999)19 and NEA/CSNI/R(2003)13 discussed a va...
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5 September 2006
NEA/RWM/WPDD(2006)3/REV1
This status report is based on and reflects the viewpoints and materials from several NEA initiatives in connection with decommissioining of nuclear power facilities and with long-term nuclear liabil...
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5 September 2006
NEA/RWM/WPDD(2006)6
This report contains a compilation of all papers regarding stakeholder involvement in decommissioning given at WPDD meetings and workshops between 2001 and the end of 2004. The compilation, together ...
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30 August 2006
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law. It provides subscribers with authoritative and comprehensive informati...
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24 August 2006
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24 August 2006
Average fuel burn-up in light water reactors (LWRs) has steadily increased with time as technological advances have been made. The practical limit is currently in the region of 50 GWd/t. The main dri...
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22 August 2006
This document serves as a summary of the work of Subgroup 20 (SG20) on covariance matrix evaluation and processing in the resolved/unresolved resonance regions, organised under the auspices of the NE...
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18 August 2006
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17 August 2006
Cette étude analyse différents cycles du combustible nucléaire avancés du point de vue de leur impact sur la gestion des déchets radioactifs. Elle examine divers cycles et illustre les différences en...
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4 August 2006
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28 July 2006
Energie ist der Motor der Weltwirtschaft und mit der Expansion der führenden Volkswirtschaften und dem Wachstum der Entwicklungsländer steigt der Weltenergiebedarf stetig an. Die Befriedigung dieser ...
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27 July 2006
A major activity of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in the field of radioactive waste management is the organisation of international peer reviews of national studies and projects. The peer revi...
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17 July 2006
The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 heightened awareness of the need to improve the international legal framework governing the safe and peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Numerou...
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17 July 2006
Hydrogen has the potential to play an important role as a sustainable and environmentally acceptable energy carrier in the 21st century. Since natural sources of pure hydrogen are extremely limited, ...
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13 July 2006
The Second International Workshop on the Indemnification of Nuclear Damage was held in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, from 18 to 20 May 2005. The workshop was co-organised by the OECD Nuclear Energy Ag...
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12 July 2006
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7 July 2006
Refined models for best-estimate calculations based on good-quality experimental data can improve the understanding of phenomena and the quantification of margins for operating nuclear power reactors...
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7 July 2006
In the field of coupled neutronics/thermal-hydraulics computation there is a need to enhance scientific knowledge in order to develop advanced modelling techniques for new nuclear technologies and co...
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30 June 2006
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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29 June 2006
NEA/CNRA/R(2006)3
These guidelines have been produced in conjunction with the development of the CNRA Operating Plan. The purpose behind this is to establish a systematic and transparent approach to how the CNRA and i...
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27 June 2006
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26 June 2006
NEA/CNRA/R(2006)2
The Joint CSNI/CNRA Strategic Plan states in its last paragraph that:
"CNRA and CSNI each prepare an operating plan which describes in more detail their committeeís organisation, planned activities, ...
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26 June 2006
NEA/SEN/NRA/WGPC(2006)4
There is an increasing expectation by the public to be informed and understand the rationale behind decisions especially in areas where peopleís safety or health may be affected. This is particularly...
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22 June 2006
NEA/SEN/NRA/WGPC(2006)5
There is an increasing expectation from the general public for information on abnormal situations occurring at a nuclear or a radiation facility. Historically communication of this information was re...
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22 June 2006
NEA/CSNI/R(2006)2
The Best-estimate Methods – Uncertainty and Sensitivity Evaluation (BEMUSE) Programme, promoted by the Working Group on Accident Management and Analysis (WGAMA) and endorsed by the Committee on the S...
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19 June 2006
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16 June 2006
2005 was a year of major activity within the nuclear sector. Interest in nuclear energy is growing significantly in many OECD member countries with the construction of new plants, new plans for nucle...
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13 June 2006