This Global Forum Working Group focuses on activities to increase the number of women in the nuclear field.
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25 May 2023
Presentation of NEST Fellows
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25 May 2023
The working groups are comprised of experts from primarily academic institutions and other relevant stakeholders from NEA member and non-member countries.
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25 May 2023
Co-Chair: Raul Barrachina (left), National Atomic Energy Commission and Kenichi Ishikawa (right), University of Tokyo
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25 May 2023
Co-Chair: Emanuela Colombo (left), Politecnico di Milano and Edward Obbard (right), The University of New South Wales Sydney (UNSW)
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25 May 2023
Co-Chair: Ian Farnan (left), University of Cambridge and Man-Sung Yim (right), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
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25 May 2023
The NEST Secretariat monitors the progress of the different NEST Projects, supports the Management Board in the Monitoring and Evaluation process and provides the interface between the NEST Projects ...
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24 May 2023
A list of NEST events, conferences, workshops and summer schools organised in the context of ongoing NEST projects.
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24 May 2023
The proposed NEST project BEAST addresses postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and young professionals, who intend to work in the field of Nuclear Decommissioning and Waste Management. The...
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24 May 2023
At the heart of the NEST Framework are multinational and multidisciplinary projects, so-called NEST projects.
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24 May 2023
NEST Fellows can be Master’s students, PhDs, postdoctoral researchers, young professionals, etc. belonging to one of the NEST project’s participating organisations.
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24 May 2023
The main decision body of the NEST Framework is the Management Board which includes one member and one alternate from each NEST Country.
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24 May 2023
The NEST Framework comprises several countries and organisations who wish to co-operate through international exchanges and activities to strengthen nuclear-related technology education and training ...
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24 May 2023
The NEA launched the Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework in partnership with its member countries to help address important gaps in nuclear skills capacity building, knowledge t...
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24 May 2023
The Global Forum Secretariat works with the Global Forum to provide support to the Council of Advisors to make products available to the Agency’s bodies and projects as appropriate. The Secretariat a...
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24 May 2023
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Idaho National Laboratory, USA
The 2023 Microreactor Deployment Workshop will enable participating student teams to understand the multi-disciplinary challenges in deploying microreactors. Over a one-week course, students will be ...
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2 May 2023
The NEA participated in the European Nuclear Young Generation Forum in Krakow, Poland, an international platform for collaboration between the nuclear sector and the next generation.
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17 May 2023
NEST Alumni share valuable lessons from their fellowships
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25 April 2023
NEA News is the professional journal of the NEA. It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nuclear safety and regulatio...
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13 April 2023
NEA Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework leaflet (2023).
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7 April 2023
The NEST HYMERES project addresses safety-relevant phenomena in containments during accidents. It offers hands-on training opportunities during the experimental test campaigns carried at the PSI PAND...
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22 March 2023
MANTRAS includes educational and training courses, events on applications in the medical sector, and access to the available research infrastructures. It focuses in particular on the development of n...
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22 March 2023
The project led by JAEA/CLADS will be dedicated to advanced remote technology for decommissioning under intense gamma-ray radiation environments (e.g. robotics, virtual reality).
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22 March 2023
This project aims to integrate SMR research projects from the individual participant organisation countries into a broader and more impactful programme. It will include elements of technology assessm...
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22 March 2023
Strengthening the future of the nuclear sector’s workforce
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16 March 2023
The NEA took part in the International Youth Nuclear Congress on 27 November - 2 December 2022 in Komiyama, Japan. (Image source: IYNC)
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14 December 2022
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12 December 2022
The NEA took part in the ENEN2plus project which aims to address the key challenges of energy security and climate change through training and education on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the...
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12 December 2022
NEST Board assembles for 6th meeting in Paris
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25 October 2022
Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology Press Pitch 2022
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18 October 2022
Future decommissioning and radiological waste management experts gathered at the Aachen Institute for Nuclear Training in Stolberg, Germany.
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3 October 2022
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9 September 2022
Stolberg, Germany
Nuclear Education, Science, Technology (NEST) Building competence, Expert knowledge, Applied techniques, Safe decommissioning, Train fellows (BEAST) summer school "Expert Knowledge – Research and Dev...
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11 August 2022
Building on the success of the previous events held in August 2020 and June 2021, the NEA hosted a Global Commencement ceremony on 29 June 2022 to congratulate the graduating nuclear engineering and ...
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23 June 2022
The webinar served as a kick-off meeting for the NEST fellows and the organisations participating in the NEST Building competence, Expert knowledge, Applied techniques, Safe decommissioning, Train fe...
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11 August 2022
This NEST project addresses the main issues of i‑graphite management, including characterisation, decontamination and disposal.
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29 April 2022
A chat with Ethan Robert Kirkby, NEST Fellow
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22 April 2022
Efforts to retain knowledge, focus on human capital issues and stimulate technological innovation have thrived since 2019 with the launch of two major activities
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22 March 2022
Insights from the NEST Framework: A chat with Vera Verkhoturova, Project Leader of the NEST i‑graphite Radioactive Waste Management project
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17 February 2022
The work of the Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework during 2021.
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7 January 2022
The NEA spoke with Professor Okamoto, who leads the NEST ARTERD project on the NEST Framework and its objectives.
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2 November 2021
Insights from the NEST Framework: A chat with Lea Zimmermann, NEST Fellow
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5 October 2021
Insights from the NEST Framework: A chat with Larissa Shasko, PhD student and NEST Fellow.
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6 September 2021
The 2021 SMR Prize Competition brought together 28 students representing different academic and research organisations participating in the NEA Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Small M...
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2 September 2021
A chat with Stephen King, PhD student and NEST Fellow.
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5 August 2021
A chat with Todd Allen, Chair and Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan, and co-lead of the NEST Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) project.
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10 June 2021
NEA Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework session at the Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 201) on 10 February 2021.
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12 April 2021
Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology
(NEST) Framework Fellows
Larissa Shasko and Stephen King
Thursday, 8 April 2021 at 15:30-16:30 Paris time
Nuclear skills and education are an increasingly i...
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4 April 2021
The NEST Management Board met virtually on 9-10 March 2021 to discuss the ongoing progress made in six NEST Projects and the challenges posed to NEST activities by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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22 March 2021
NEA Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework session at the Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 201) on 10 February 2021.
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25 February 2021
This NEST project aims to provide the necessary education and hands-on training component to the new multilateral initiative currently developed by NEA to strengthen fuel and material- related experi...
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2 February 2021
