NEA Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework Management Board meeting, 16-18 September 2020.

A webinar was organised jointly by the NEA and the International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation (IFNEC) on 24 February 2022 to discuss strategies and considerations for the back-end of the ...

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.

A wealth of technical information exists on nuclear fuel cycle options – combinations of nuclear fuel types, reactor types, used or spent nuclear fuel (SNF) treatments, and disposal schemes – and mos...

NEA/SEN/HLGMR(2019)2

At the request of its member countries, the NEA became involved in global efforts to ensure an economically sustainable secure supply of molybdenum-99/technetium-99m. This final ...

The "Red Book", is a biennial publication produced jointly by the NEA and the IAEA under the auspices of the joint NEA/IAEA Uranium Group. It is the only government-sponsored publication tracking wor...

This ongoing series on projected costs of generating electricity presents and analyses cost estimates for some 130 power and co-generation (heat and power) plants using coal, gas, nuclear and renewab...

An NEA initiative to accelerate R&D and market deployment of innovative nuclear fission technologies.

The Uranium group's primary area of work is producing the biennial publication of the Red Book. 

Uranium is the raw material used for nuclear energy generation. It is mined and further processed to make up the highly engineered fuel that is used in nuclear reactors.

This workshop series will bring together experts from the nuclear energy, sustainability and financing sectors to discuss approaches for financing sustainable, large infrastructure projects with a fo...

The NEA has established the Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy, which entered into force on 28 January 2021.

New NEA task force on partitioning and transmutation kicks off

This workbook has been developed to aid reactor and alternative technology operators identify their full costs associated with the provision of irradiation services for 99Mo production. The workbook ...

This document provides guidance to reactor and alternative production technology (e.g., cyclotrons, accelerators) operators on how to undertake full-cost identification and implement full-cost recove...

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in collaboration with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) hosted an international, multi-sector workshop on 14-18 December 2020 on safely regulating inn...

Adequacy of Funding Arrangements for Decommissioning and Radioactive Waste Management (ADEQ)

This joint report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) is the ninth in a series of studies on electricity generating costs. As countries work towards ensuring ...

^{The Barakah nuclear power plant. Photo: ENEC, United Arab Emirates.}

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The workshop on 'Modelling Employment in the Nuclear Power Sector' was held at NEA Headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux ...

Attitudes towards plutonium management vary from country to country and from utility to utility: some regard plutonium as a liability and others as a valuable source of energy.

The purpose of this st...

Studies on fast reactors have historically concentrated on their capability to use plutonium produced in thermal reactors as initial fuel, and subsequently their capacity to produce electricity while...

Studies on fast reactors have historically concentrated on their capability of using plutonium produced in thermal reactors as initial fuel, and subsequently their capacity to produce electricity whi...

The quality of the isotopic composition of plutonium fuel degrades as the number of recycles increases in thermal reactors, requiring an increase in the total loading necessary in mixed plutonium-ura...

The quality of the isotopic composition of plutonium fuel degrades as the number of recycles increases in thermal reactors. There are in addition incentives to better utilise fuel by increasing the b...

^{Spent Nuclear Fuel Pool. Photo: Cogema.} 

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The NEA study on the “Adequacy of Funding Arrangements for Decommissioning and Radioactive Waste Management” is a part of the Programme of Work of...

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...

Although the recycling of plutonium as thermal mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel in pressurised water reactors (PWRs) is now well-established on a commercial scale, many physics questions remain. The main quest...

This study will focus on the economic drivers of production costs of Small Modular Reactors.

This study analyses the need for adjustments in or new developments of the fuel cycle for Small Modular Reactors.

This study will assess the potential opportunities to harmonise and streamline the licensing processes of SMRs.

The NEA encourages governments to take advantage of the post‑COVID‑19 economic recovery to accelerate the energy transition towards meeting climate objectives.

• Post‑pandemic recovery plans to reconc...

Disruptive technologies for nuclear safety applications

The nuclear sector is constantly looking for new technologies that will make nuclear power plants even more reliable, cost-effective and safe.

This study updates the 1985 NEA report and presents a comprehensive analysis of the individual and total costs of the nuclear fuel cycle for a pressurised water reactor (PWR) to be commissioned in th...