Over the past two decades, the safety case has become a powerful and essential tool to support decision making at every stage of a geological disposal programme. Now, an increasing number of national...

The opening session of the Sixth International Conference on Geological Repositories (ICGR-6) in Helsinki, Finland. Photo: Krystal Kenney

There is consensus within the international scientific commun...

Deadline for submission of abstracts       30 June 2023    

Notification of accepted contributions      17 July 2023

Deadline for attendance registration          27 Oct 2023      

Deadline for presentation submissions 27 Oct 2...

The NEA is organising the 16^th Information Exchange Meeting on Actinide and Fission Product Partitioning and Transmutation (16IEMPT) on 24-27 October 2023. The meeting will be held at the NEA offices...

The 12th International Conference on Nuclear Criticality Safety (ICNC) will be held in Sendai, Japan on 1-6 October 2023. Twenty years after the last conference in Japan, which was held in Tokai-mura...

The seventh edition of the annual NEA Thermochemical Database (TDB) Project course on the topic of thermodynamic data collection and assessment will take place as a one-day, in-person event on 23 Sep...

In response to the technical and scientific needs emerged recently in this area, the Working Group of External Events (WGEV) and the Working Group on Risk Assessment (WGRISK) initiated a joint task e...

Optimisation has always been a fundamental concept in decision making for all parts of society, but the way decisions are taken has changed in recent years. Societal considerations towards nuclear-re...

The application period for the 2023 session is now closed.

Applications for the fifth session of the International Radiological Protection School (IRPS) are now closed.

The 2023 edition of the IRPS is scheduled to take place in person in Stockholm, Sweden fr...

The NEA in collaboration with the Japanese Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) will host an international workshop on 28-29 June 2023 on the topic of Ageing management considerations in mechanical cod...

In the early decades of nuclear reactor development, many countries built and operated zero-power facilities in which many different critical arrangements of materials were studied. These flexible ex...

The NEA thermal hydraulic code validation benchmark for high temperature gas-cooled reactors using HTTF data (HTGR T/H), supervised by the Expert Group on Reactor Core Thermal-Hydraulics and Mechanic...

NEA DB Services to non-NEA DB countries

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...

The publication of the latest EGIR report marks the completion of phase one of the group's programme of work.

INEX-6 will be the largest exercise in over 20 years.

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...

Members of the WGHOF gathered in Vantaa, Finland, for its 33rd meeting.

This Global Forum Working Group focuses on activities to increase the number of women in the nuclear field.

Presentation of NEST Fellows

The working groups are comprised of experts from primarily academic institutions and other relevant stakeholders from NEA member and non-member countries.   

Co-Chair: Raul Barrachina (left), National Atomic Energy Commission and Kenichi Ishikawa (right), University of Tokyo

Co-Chair: Emanuela Colombo (left), Politecnico di Milano and Edward Obbard (right), The University of New South Wales Sydney (UNSW)

Co-Chair: Ian Farnan (left), University of Cambridge and Man-Sung Yim (right), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire.

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 ...