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OECD Conference Centre, Paris, France
Current status and future actions to ensure the reliable supply for molybdenum-99 (99Mo), and a conversation on a new generation of innovative radioisotopes for diagnostics and therapy
The NEA hosted...
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30 October 2023
13:00-15:00 CET, Online
Recent performance breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have led to unprecedented interest in AI/ML among nuclear engineers. However, the lack of dedicated benchmar...
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6 December 2023
Analytical studies on nuclear legislation in OECD member countries and in Central and Eastern Europe and the NIS issued between 1995 and 2003.
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27 October 2023
Post-test view inside OLHF-4 vessel showing penetrations and resolidified weld material at the vessel bottom.
During a severe accident, the lower head of a reactor pressure vessel (RPV) can be subj...
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27 October 2023
EPICUR facility, IRSN.
STEM phases
First phase (2011-2015)
The STEM Project was initiated with a first phase in 20...
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27 October 2023
The Steering Committee for Nuclear Energy held its 146th Session in Paris.
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27 October 2023
Experts from 16 countries met on 13-15 September for the 24th annual Working Group on Fuel Safety GFS meeting in Paris.
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27 October 2023
A new collaboration with the EPRI and the NEA will focus on waste management strategies for small modular reactors.
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26 October 2023
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24 October 2023
Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) is jointly sponsored by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Since 1992, ISOE has provided a forum for...
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24 October 2023
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NEA Headquarters, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
The NEA organised the 16th Information Exchange Meeting on Actinide and Fission Product Partitioning and Transmutation (16IEMPT) on 24-27 October 2023. The meeting was held at the NEA offices in Boul...
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20 February 2025
The NEA and CAEA held the NEA-China Forum on Nuclear Decommissioning and Radioactive Waste Management in Beijing.
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23 October 2023
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23 October 2023
Leaders from regulation, government, industry, academia, international organisations and NGOs on 5-7 September 2023 in Paris.
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23 October 2023
The NEA workshop took place in Fukushima on 29-31 July.
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23 October 2023
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20 October 2023
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18 October 2023
Seoul, Korea
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27 September 2023
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11 October 2023
Ahmad Sleiman, a PhD student in neurotoxicology at IRSN, talks about his NEST Framework Fellowship.
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10 October 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 Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) is responsible for NEA programmes and activities that support maintaining and advancing the scientific and technical knowledge base of the ...
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10 October 2023
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Pitești, Romania
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26 September 2023
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9 October 2023
View of the RASPLAV-3 Facility.
The Material Scaling (MASCA) Project was a follow-up of the RASPLAV Project and investigated in-vessel phenomena during a severe accident with core melt. Specifica...
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6 October 2023
Scheme of the PSB-VVER facility, EREC
The NEA PSB-VVER project provided unique and useful experimental data for code validation using the PSB-VVER test facility. The PSB-VVER facility is a large-scal...
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6 October 2023
Scheme of the ROSA LSTF facility, JAEA
The Rig-of-safety Assessment (ROSA) Project aimed to resolve issues in thermal-hydraulics analyses relevant to light water reactor (LWR) safety using the Japa...
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6 October 2023
General view of the EREC test facility BC V-213, source: EREC
There are several VVER-440/213* type nuclear power plants operating in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovak Republic, Russia and Ukraine...
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6 October 2023
The OECD NEA RASPLAV Project provided experiments with prototypical material and data on the behavior of molten core material (corium) in the reactor pressure vessel lower head during a severe accide...
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6 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
New NEA-UK programme to bring Ukrainian nuclear energy experts to the Agency.
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5 October 2023
The EGMUP Task Force on artificial intelligence and machine learning will design benchmark specifications to evaluate the performance of AI/ML in multi-physics modeling and simulation of reactor syst...
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4 October 2023
Electrical cable fire test, IRSN.
The NEA PRISME project addressed in a series of 3 phases from 2006 till 2022 fire risk research. Operating experience shows that fire is one of the highest risks i...
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4 October 2023
WPLANS members gathered on 27 September 2023.
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4 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
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2 October 2023
In a core melt accident, if the molten core is not retained in-vessel despite severe accident mitigation actions, the core debris will relocate to the reactor cavity region and interact with the stru...
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2 October 2023
PAKS Nuclear Power Plant, Hungary.
During a fuel crud removal operation on the Paks-2 unit on 10 April 2003, several fuel assemblies were severely damaged. The assemblies were being cleaned in a sp...
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2 October 2023
Image at melt distribution and its contour at MBC (KAERI).
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) initiated a co...
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2 October 2023
Scheme of the THAI+ facility, Becker Technologies.
The experimental investigations carried out in the frame of the THAI (2007-2009), THAI-2 (2011-2014) and THAI-3 (2016-2019) projects contributed s...
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2 October 2023
Scheme of the PKL facility, Framatome GmbH.
The SESAR Thermal-hydraulics (SETH) Project began in 2001 and consisted of thermal-hydraulic experiments in support of accident management, which were ca...
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2 October 2023
View looking down onto the LOFT reactor
The Loss-of-fluid Test (LOFT) Research Programme was originally set up by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Part of the programme was later broadened int...
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2 October 2023
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6 October 2023
Austria, Vienna
Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) technologies are attracting great interest in the public and private sectors for a broad spectrum of applications worldwide. Most efforts at the international level are devo...
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31 May 2023
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Sendai International Center, Miyagi, Japan
The 12th International Conference on Nuclear Criticality Safety (ICNC) was held in Sendai, Japan, on 1-6 October 2023. Twenty years after the last conference in Japan, which was held in Tokai-mura as...
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31 July 2024
NEA and French Ministry for Energy Transition hosted Roadmaps to New Nuclear conference.
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29 September 2023
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29 September 2023
OECD Conference Centre, Paris, France
NEA projections show that in order to successfully achieve net zero by 2050, nuclear energy capacity will need to at least double and potentially triple compared to today. As a result, the topic of n...
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30 August 2023
The NEA and the Ministry of Energy Transition of France will host the first government-industry conference.
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27 September 2023
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Solna, Stockholm, Sweden
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Nantes, France
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24 August 2023