Hydrogen is expected to play important roles in decarbonised energy systems, as an energy source for otherwise hard-to-electrify sectors as well as a storage vector to enhance power system flexibilit...
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21 September 2022
10 November 2022
13:30-14:30 (GMT+2) at COP27 and online
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4 November 2022
NEA Director-General William D. Magwood, IV explains how an energy mix that includes nuclear power can help achieve global climate change goals.
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13 December 2021
NEA article from the Nuclear-Hydrogen Digest: Nuclear Energy in the Hydrogen Economy, published by NICE Future and the NEA.
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20 September 2022
NEA workshop in Ottawa, Canada, which convened government and private sector, explored the economic status of SMRs and their role in the transition to a low-carbon energy future.
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26 March 2024
The NEA Working Party on Information, Data and Knowledge Management discussed the topic of AI and data preservation during their third plenary meeting on 7-8 February 2023.
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24 February 2023
11 November 2022
13:30-14:30 (GMT+2) at COP27 and online
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4 November 2022
NEA/WKP(2023)2
In November 2022, the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) launched an international survey in the framework of the Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy. The survey sought to...
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9 February 2024
NEA/RWM/R(2022)2
Following a safety-oriented, stepwise procedure for geological repository siting, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan (NUMO) requested in 2021 that the NEA facilitate an independent in...
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19 January 2023
An NEA delegation led by Director-General William D. Magwood, IV visited the Netherlands to meet with government and industry representatives.
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26 April 2023
All low-carbon solutions will be required to achieve the world's net zero targets. Nuclear energy has a role to play in meeting this need. A wave of innovation in small modular reactors (SMRs) is adv...
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20 July 2023
Small modular reactors (SMRs) are technologies capable of harnessing the energy from nuclear fission reactions to produce heat and electricity with power outputs typically smaller than 300 MWe, with ...
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28 February 2024
All low-carbon solutions will be required to achieve the world's net zero targets. Nuclear energy has a role to play in meeting this need. A wave of innovation in small modular reactors (SMRs) is adv...
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13 March 2023
Small modular reactors (SMRs) are nuclear reactors with power output less than 300 megawatts electric (MWe), with some as small as 1-10 MWe.
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21 October 2022
This brochure describes the mandate, profile, focus areas, and future challenges of the Regulators’ Forum (RF).
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10 December 2021
The NEA hosted an expert roundtable discussion on 8 October 2021 to reflect on twenty years of Regulators' Forum (RF) work and trace the evolution of the roles and responsibilities of nuclear safety ...
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25 October 2021
As part of the NEA Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy, the Rising Stars Programme leverages the weight of the Agency and the academic institutions to build new pipeline...
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7 February 2023
Most safety incidents are often not due to a technical fault or the actions of a single individual, but rather originate in a compromised safety culture – the collection of the beliefs, perceptions a...
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12 March 2024
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) hosted an expert roundtable discussion on 29 July 2021 to present and discuss findings from a new report on the role of nuclear long-term operation (LTO) in decarbonis...
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5 August 2021
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28 September 2023
Solna, Stockholm, Sweden
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22 September 2023
The International School of Nuclear Law returns to the University of Montpellier
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9 September 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
NEA Leaderership Series brought together three leaders in the nuclear sector to discuss what creates effective leadership and why it's essential for the nuclear sector's success.
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4 December 2023
The NEA Risk Communication Training Course was held on 7-9 December 2022 in Bratislava where participants heard from and engaged with communication experts and technical professionals working in nucl...
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15 December 2022
NEA delegation was in Japan for a series of bilateral meetings and events with students.
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27 February 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2023)2
This report provides the results of the fluid structure interaction (FSI) benchmark, which was developed and performed by the designer and engineering company OKBM as part of NEA and ROSATOM activiti...
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24 April 2024
COVID-19 caused a series of major changes in society, including in the way people communicate and engage with each other. The impact on communication and stakeholder engagement activities was particu...
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7 November 2023
NEA/NSC/R(2022)1
There is significant international interest in the effects of temperature on criticality safety evaluations. Improved access to nuclear data, notably thermal scattering data S(α,β) for hydrogen in ic...
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2 November 2023
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23 June 2023
IRSN, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
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...
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6 June 2023
The NEA workshop gathered experts to discuss the challenges and opportunities related to the demise of zero power reactors.
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4 July 2023
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6 March 2024
Paris, France
Suppliers play a critical role in the construction and operation of nuclear power plants. With a declining number of nuclear grade suppliers and a loss of skills in some regions, supply chain oversig...
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23 February 2024
Multi-compartment THAI+ test facility, Becker Technologies GmbH.
In the wake of the OECD/NEA THAI project, conducted in three phases from 2007 until 2019, a new project, THAI Experiments on Mitigat...
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2 October 2023
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8 April 2024
23 September 2023
Nantes, France
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24 August 2023
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25 April 2024
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16 November 2022
Online
Due to circumstances imposed by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this year's event will take place online.
The 6th edition of the annual NEA TDB course on the topic of thermodynamic data collection a...
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17 May 2022
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19 November 2021
Online
Due to circumstances imposed by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this year's event will take place online.
The 5th edition of the annual NEA TDB course on the topic of thermodynamic data collection a...
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10 November 2021
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27 October 2023
Image: Microscopic examination of U-bearing particles collected at Fukushima-Daiichi, JAEA
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5 September 2023
A CRPPH's task force to provide a high-level analysis report on radiological protection challenges related to the deployment of SMRs.
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1 September 2023
The Critical Heat Flux (CHF) benchmark exercise of the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Scientific Computing in Nuclear Engineering leverages the recently published CHF ...
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9 February 2024
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
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25 January 2024
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24 January 2024
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19 February 2024
Table on Application of the Paris Convention to non-metropolitan territories of the Contracting Parties (French version)
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28 June 2022
Table on Application of the Paris Convention to non-metropolitan territories of the Contracting Parties (English version)
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28 June 2022
The NEA Expert Group on International Recommendations (EGIR) met for the first time on 8 October 2021 to set out its proposed work plan and discuss initial findings for the review.
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27 October 2021
Limiting the rise of global temperature to less than 2°C represents an enormous challenge for the whole electricity sector. Decarbonising the electricity sector in a cost-effective manner while maint...
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27 October 2021
Nuclear legislation: Switzerland
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19 September 2023
Nuclear legislation: Sweden
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19 September 2023