Project members met in Cadarache, France, on 1-3 April 2025.

Picture of the ASNR MIDI facility 

The Pool during Loss of Cooling Accident (POLCA) project was launched in April 2024 and is planned to last four years. It is operated by the French Autorité de Sûre...

Once irradiated or “spent” nuclear fuel is unloaded from a reactor it is usually stored at the reactor site for between five and ten years. It is then ready for long-term storage or for reprocessing ...

The NEA and METI International Workshop on Joint Utilisation of Underground Research Laboratories (URLs) for R&D Projects was organised in the JAEA Horonobe International Communication House (Horonob...

New NEA nuclear safety joint project 'Pool during Loss of Cooling Accident' (POLCA) launched during a meeting of 40 international experts on 9-10 April, 2024. (Photo: Large scale MIDI facility at IRS...

Some 100 international experts convened in New Jersey, U.S for the Workshop on Extended Storage and Transportation of Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste from Current and Future Reactor Technologies.

The NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) created the Ad-hoc Group on the Extended Storage and Transportation (AhGEST) in 2021. Following the work on these two topics, AhGEST presented it...

The Task Force on Dose Rate Calculations for Irradiated Fuel Assembly was launched in 2015 to assess code predictions of dose rates from bare spent fuel assemblies and to benchmark multiple codes and...

Approximately 30 experts from WGAMA discussed how to advance the understanding of phenomena in pool in the situation of a loss of cooling accident.

Community and industry come together to workshop radioactive waste management strategies