NEA workshop gathers nuclear sector stakeholders for interactive discussions.
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20 March 2024
Updates from the NEA Working Group on Reactor Oversight
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18 March 2024
Read the summary and main outcomes of the NEA Nuclear Safety Research Joint Projects Week.
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13 March 2024
This report presents practical guidance to enhance leadership for safety in nuclear regulatory bodies. It identifies the effective characteristics, competencies and behaviours of leaders in regulator...
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12 March 2024
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Paris, France
Suppliers play a critical role in the construction and operation of nuclear power plants. With a declining number of nuclear grade suppliers and a loss of skills in some regions, supply chain oversig...
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23 February 2024
One of the major achievements of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) is the knowledge it has helped to generate through the organisation of joint international research projects. Such projects, prim...
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27 February 2024
In the framework of the WGAMA/WGFS activity "Status Report on Good Practices for Analyses of Design Extension Condition without Significant Fuel Degradation (DEC-A) for Operating Nuclear Power Plants...
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20 December 2023
The NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) and the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) convened on 4-8 December to discuss current activities and plan future body o...
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18 December 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2021)9
This synthesis report summarises the technical programme and the outcome of the 2018 International Severe Accident Management Conference (ISAMC-2018) organised in Ottawa, Ontario on 15-18 October 201...
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11 December 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)12
As noted in the Joint CSNI/CNRA Strategic Plan and Mandates (NEA, 2019), the safe operation of current, new and advanced nuclear facilities is a key challenge for nuclear regulators and technical saf...
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11 December 2023
The Working Group on Supply Chain (WGSUP) works to provide a mechanism for nuclear safety regulators and technical support organizations (TSOs) to share their knowledge and experience on regulatory a...
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1 December 2023
The Working Group on Reactor Oversight (WGRO) works to provide a mechanism for nuclear safety regulators and Technical Support Organisations (TSOs) to share their knowledge and experience on both, th...
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30 November 2023
The NEA ATLAS3 and NEA ETHARINUS projects organised a workshop on 7-9 November 2023.
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23 November 2023
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16 November 2023
Office for Nuclear Regulation, Merton Road, Bootle, Merseyside L20 7HS, United Kingdom
The workshop on the Approaches to design, implementation and operation of electrical systems for beyond design basis equipment and management of geomagnetically induced currents in electrical systems...
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22 June 2023
While there is a growing interest in the deployment of small modular reactors (SMRs) as a promising option to help mitigate climate change, further international efforts are needed to accelerate the ...
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10 October 2023
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Working Group on the Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) aims to contribute to the assessment of the prevention, mitigation and management of accidents, ultim...
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5 October 2023
The NEA announced today that it will co-operate with Net Zero Nuclear, the platform that the global nuclear industry has launched to deliver a Financing Nuclear work stream during COP28 in Dubai.
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3 October 2023
Experts attended NEA event in France.
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14 September 2023
The NEA Working Group on the Analysis and Management of Accidents convened for its annual meeting to discuss ongoing work related to accident strategy and management.
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14 September 2023
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13 September 2023
IRSN, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
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4 September 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2022)2
The eighth instalment of the workshop on computational fluid dynamics for nuclear reactor safety (CFD4NRS-8) was organised by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Instal...
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28 August 2023
NEA/CNRA/R(2020)3
The main objectives of the Special International Nuclear Regulatory Inspection Workshop on Digital Instrumentation & Control (DI&C), which was jointly held by the Nuclear Energy Agency’s (NEA) Workin...
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25 August 2023
FACE project members met on 28-30 June 2023 in Paris, France.
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24 July 2023
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29 June 2023
Tokyo (Japan) - Hitotsubashi Hall, National Center of Sciences Building
The NEA in collaboration with the Japanese Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) hosted an international workshop on 28-29 June 2023 on the topic of Ageing management considerations in mechanical codes ...
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3 July 2023
Supporting the use of computational fluid dynamics for nuclear reactor safety
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27 June 2023
Innovations in nuclear safety thermal-hydraulics
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26 June 2023
10-year FIDES-II strategic plan will define key research needs in a variety of technical disciplines.
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19 June 2023
Around 50 delegates from 22 countries and 2 international organisations gathered on 6-7 June 2023 for the 73rd CSNI meeting.
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14 June 2023
The NEA co-organised the International Workshop on Disruptive Technologies for Nuclear Safety Applications on 16-17 May 2023 in Jeju, Korea.
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4 June 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)16
In the current project, a new systematic approach has been developed, called SAPIUM (systematic approach for input uncertainty quantification methodology) for transparent and rigorous model IUQ. This...
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30 May 2023
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17 May 2023
International Convention Center (ICC), Jeju, Korea
The International workshop on disruptive technologies for nuclear safety applications is one of the most significant digital innovation events of the year. This two-day workshop was held on 16-17 May...
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9 May 2023
Approximately 30 experts from WGAMA discussed how to advance the understanding of phenomena in pool in the situation of a loss of cooling accident.
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25 April 2023
Members of FIDES-II from 12 countries assembled in Prague, Czech Republic, on 17-21 April 2023 for meetings of its Technical Advisory Group and Governing Board.
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21 April 2023
The 9th edition of the Computational Fluid Dynamics for Nuclear Reactor Safety workshop was hosted by Texas A&M University on 20-22 February 2023.
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23 March 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)14
The present report summarises the main results and learnings from the third phase of the NEA Behaviour of Iodine Project (BIP-3), which was conducted between 2016 and 2019 by the Canadian Nuclear Lab...
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15 February 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)2
In order to reach a better understanding of countries’ different approaches to the evaluation of vibrations detected in piping systems and components, the NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Insta...
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15 February 2023
The NEA event reviews the accomplishments of the joint safety projects.
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27 January 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)8
The aim of this report is to examine whether there are any international variations in the electrical power system designs (“design variations”) of nuclear power plants that affect the system respons...
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13 January 2023
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13 January 2023
Online
Since its inception, the NEA has provided a highly flexible and powerful platform for multinational research co-operation, particularly in areas related to providing understanding and insights needed...
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27 February 2024
Second Workshop on International Harvesting Co-operation focused on the status of aged metals harvesting and opportunities for international collaborative research.
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14 December 2022
NEA and NRA held joint conference on regulators' views in Tokyo, Japan 10 years after TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi NPS Accident.
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12 December 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2019)11
In the ASCET Phase III, the goal was to assess and develop the Phase II (blind benchmark) recommendations using additional test results. The Phase III simulations were performed using a full set of t...
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24 November 2022
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7 November 2022
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10 November 2022
Lord Elgin Hotel - Ottawa, Canada
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21 November 2022
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3 November 2022
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3 November 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)7
The cold leg mixing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) – uncertainty quantification (CLM-UQ) benchmark is the fifth benchmark concerning CFD applications to nuclear reactor safety to be organised in ...
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3 November 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)10
Following the recommendations from the technical workshop on “Nuclear Fuel Behaviour during Reactivity-Initiated Accidents” organised by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in September 2009, a first ben...
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18 October 2022
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21 October 2022
Vienna, Austria
The IAEA International Conferences on Topical Issues in Nuclear Installation Safety (TIC) are organised periodically bringing together nuclear safety regulators, plant designers and operators, techni...
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1 June 2022
As a follow-up to the 2010 NEA report Nuclear Fuel Behaviour under Reactivity-initiated Accident (RIA) Conditions: State-of-the-art Report 2010, this report presents the state-of-the-art knowledge on...
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17 October 2022