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20 April 2023
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19 April 2023
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19 April 2023
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19 April 2023
A cabinet containing copper bus before the HEAF test (left) and after the test(right). Source: NRC
Massive electrical discharges, referred to as high energy arcing faults (HEAF), have occurred in nuc...
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19 April 2023
Guidance to request the data collection of nuclear fuel performance experiments for the purpose of code development and validation.
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19 April 2023
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18 April 2023
The NEA will hold the Third Stakeholder Involvement workshop to advance the issue of optimisation in decision making on 5-7 September 2023, in close co-operation with all interested NEA Standing Tech...
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17 April 2023
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17 April 2023
Development started on DATIF, the DATabase for IFpe, in 2018 in order to enhance accessibility to the IFPE legacy collection of integral fuel performance experiments data, jointly put together by the...
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12 April 2023
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7 April 2023
NEA Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework leaflet (2023).
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7 April 2023
The Expert Group on Small and Modular Reactors (EGSMR) continues to make progress with its forthcoming report
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8 July 2022
ICSBEP, SINBAD AND IRPhEP Technical Review Group meetings, October 2021.
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25 October 2021
EGPRS Task Force members met on 3 April 2023.
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7 April 2023
The main mission of the Working Group on Fuel Safety (WGFS) is to advance the current understanding and address cross-cutting issues related to fuel behaviour in accident conditions, including work o...
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5 April 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2019)15
The VeRCoRs facility mock-up is a reactor containment building at 1/3 scale. The mock-up is instrumented so that its behaviour is monitored from the beginning of construction. More than 700 sensors a...
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27 September 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)11
This report summarises the work done for the activity: “Benchmark analysis on the eXtended Finite Element Method (X-FEM) calculation technology in its use to evaluate the fracture mechanics stress in...
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6 October 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2019)13
Since its inception in 2002, the operating experience with thermal fatigue mechanisms has been an intrinsic aspect of the technical scope of CODAP, which is a joint database project within the Commit...
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11 October 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)10
Following the recommendations from the technical workshop on “Nuclear Fuel Behaviour during Reactivity-Initiated Accidents” organised by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in September 2009, a first ben...
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18 October 2022
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3 November 2022
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3 November 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2019)11
In the ASCET Phase III, the goal was to assess and develop the Phase II (blind benchmark) recommendations using additional test results. The Phase III simulations were performed using a full set of t...
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24 November 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)8
The aim of this report is to examine whether there are any international variations in the electrical power system designs (“design variations”) of nuclear power plants that affect the system respons...
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13 January 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)14
The present report summarises the main results and learnings from the third phase of the NEA Behaviour of Iodine Project (BIP-3), which was conducted between 2016 and 2019 by the Canadian Nuclear Lab...
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15 February 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)2
In order to reach a better understanding of countries’ different approaches to the evaluation of vibrations detected in piping systems and components, the NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Insta...
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15 February 2023
Female scientists and engineers pioneered the nuclear and radiological fields, with leaders and innovators such as Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Lise Meitner, among many others, establishing the foundat...
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8 March 2023
Latest status of ratifications or accessions to the Paris Convention on Nuclear Third Party Liability.
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4 April 2023
État d’avancement des ratifications ou des adhésions à la Convention de Paris sur la responsabilité civile nucléaire.
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4 April 2023
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7 July 2023
Barcelona, Spain
Date: 3-7 July 2023
Location: Universitat de Barcelona - Facultat de Fisica
Diagonal 645
08028 Barcelona - SPAIN
Course fee: 1500 Euros
Registration deadline: 26 May 2023
Participants m...
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4 April 2023
The NEA event reviews the accomplishments of the joint safety projects.
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27 January 2023
Older issues of the Nuclear Law Bulletin (Nos. 1 to 80).
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3 April 2023
Anciens numéros du Bulletin de droit nucléaire (nos 1 à 80).
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3 April 2023
The Paris Convention establishes a nuclear liability and compensation regime to compensate victims of a nuclear accident. The PC is open to OECD member countries as of right and non-member countries ...
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30 March 2023
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31 March 2023
The transformative activity of mining has numerous economic, social and environmental impacts that can be both positive and adverse for communities, ecosystems and economies. As the uranium industry ...
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2 February 2023
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29 March 2023
Paris Convention Exposé des Motifs - Bilingual (with disclosure)
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29 March 2023
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29 March 2023
On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake of magnitude 9.0 on the Richter scale jolted the eastern coast of Japan. An hour after the earthquake, a 14-15 m tsunami, as estimated at the Fukushima Daiichi ...
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9 March 2023
The goal of EGCUL is to share state-of-the-art knowledge and experience in characterising a large amount of unknown waste derived from nuclear accidents and past nuclear activities.
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12 July 2022
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1 September 2022
Iwaki Business Innovation Center, Fukushima, Japan
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (NDF) are organising an international workshop on the characterisation of large quanti...
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17 August 2022
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26 October 2022
Venue: NH Hotel Berlin Mitte, Leipziger Str. 106-111, 10117, Berlin, Germany
Radioactive waste is produced in all phases of the nuclear fuel cycle and from the use of radioactive materials in industrial, medical, defence and research applications. Disposal in engineered repos...
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14 October 2022
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23 March 2023
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23 March 2023
The 9th edition of the Computational Fluid Dynamics for Nuclear Reactor Safety workshop was hosted by Texas A&M University on 20-22 February 2023.
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23 March 2023
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) fully supports the proposals made by the IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi to ensure that the seven pillars of nuclear security and safety are maintaine...
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9 March 2022
Statement of the Steering Committee for Nuclear Energy on the safety and security of operation of Ukraine’s nuclear installations
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27 April 2022
The NEA’s ruling body the Steering Committee for Nuclear Energy met for its143rd biannual meeting in April 2022.
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27 April 2022
The NEA survey on the status of nuclear education, training and outreach in member countries is conducted by the NEA Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy Working Group 2:...
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22 March 2023