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5 January 2023
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25 May 2023
The Brussels Supplementary Convention establishes a scheme to provide compensation supplementary to that required by the Paris Convention. The BSC is open only to contracting parties to the Paris C...
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26 April 2024
The Brussels Supplementary Convention establishes a scheme to provide compensation supplementary to that required by the Paris Convention. The BSC is open only to contracting parties to the Paris Con...
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12 May 2023
Latest status of ratifications or accessions of the Brussels Supplementary Convention (BSC).
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30 January 2023
Convention de Bruxelles complémentaire à la Convention de Paris: Texte consolidé officieux et exposé des motifs
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12 May 2023
Full text of the Convention of 31st January 1963 Supplementary to the Paris Convention of 29th July 1960, as amended by the additional Protocol of 28th January 1964 and by the Protocol of 16th Novemb...
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12 April 2022
General view of the EREC test facility BC V-213, source: EREC
There are several VVER-440/213* type nuclear power plants operating in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovak Republic, Russia and Ukraine...
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6 October 2023
More than ten years after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, many lessons have been learnt that have helped improve preparedness for nuclear emergencies and awareness of the global r...
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18 May 2022
In May 2022, the Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) and the Integration Group for the Safety Case (IGSC) held a Joint Workshop with stakeholders from Germany, Sweden and Switzerland to assess the ...
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21 August 2023
On 17-18 May, experts in radioactive waste management, local stakeholders and non-technical actors convened in Bern, Switzerland, for the IGSC and FSC workshop on the safety case.
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23 May 2022
NEA/RWM/R(2022)4
Safe disposal of radioactive waste (RW), including spent fuel, must take into consideration long timescales as implied by radioactive waste management (RWM). The NEA Radioactive Waste Management Comm...
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24 January 2024
WGPC held its biannual plenary meeting on 9-10 November 2021 to discuss its ongoing work and the progress made in activities on public trust and risk communication.
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29 November 2021
Nuclear legislation: Bulgaria
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19 September 2023
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire.
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27 March 2024
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24 May 2023
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire. Ses lecteurs bénéficient d’informations exhaustiv...
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6 December 2021
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire. Ses lecteurs bénéficient d’informations exhaustiv...
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27 January 2023
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire. Ses lecteurs bénéficient d’informations exhaustiv...
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24 May 2023
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire. Ses lecteurs bénéficient d’informations exhaustiv...
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16 November 2023
Burn-up credit is a safety approach that accounts for the reduction in the reactivity of configurations with spent nuclear fuel due to the change in their composition after irradiation.
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11 September 2023
NEA/NSC/R(2022)3/CORR
Please note that this report was initially published in November 2022 (NEA/NSC/R(2022)3) under erroneous benchmark number IIB; in this updated version (NEA/NSC/R(2022)3/CORR) this has been corrected ...
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30 November 2022
This benchmark is organised to examine the models for fission gas release during anticipated operational occurrences (AOOs).
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7 March 2023
Cable samples of Beznau NPP
In 2006, two subjects, stress corrosion cracking and the degradation of cable insulation were selected as the focus of the Stress Corrosion Cracking and Cable Ageing Pro...
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20 February 2024
Cabri Reactor (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives)
The Cabri International Project (CIP) began in March 2000 to study the behaviour of nuclear fuel rods and cladding durin...
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26 April 2023
Nuclear legislation: Canada
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19 September 2023
The Country-Specific Safety Culture Forum takes place in Canada.
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6 October 2022
Kick-off workshop of the thermal hydraulic code validation benchmark for high temperature gas-cooled reactors using High Temperature Test Facility (HTTF) data.
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16 June 2023
NEA/RWM/R(2020)2
The Expert Group on Characterisation Methodology of Unconventional and Legacy Waste (EGCUL) was established under the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) and it ...
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30 November 2021
This report is intended to serve as a practical guide to explain the organisational characteristics, attributes and ways of thinking that can help a nuclear regulator build and maintain trust with in...
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17 April 2024
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17 November 2023
National legislation: China
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19 September 2023
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4 August 2022
The NEA Clay Club has been gathering the key geoscientific characteristics of the various argillaceous formations that are – or have been – studied in NEA member countries in the context of radioacti...
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9 March 2022
The Working Group on the Characterisation, the Understanding and the Performance of Argillaceous Rocks and Repository Host Formations (Clay Club) marked its 30th anniversary at its meeting on 17 Nove...
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14 December 2021
The International Co-operative Programme for the Exchange of Scientific and Technical Information Concerning Nuclear Installation Decommissioning Projects (CPD) is a joint undertaking of a limited nu...
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3 November 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)7
The cold leg mixing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) – uncertainty quantification (CLM-UQ) benchmark is the fifth benchmark concerning CFD applications to nuclear reactor safety to be organised in ...
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3 November 2022
On 2-4 November, the NEA Working Group on Human and Organisational Factors (WGHOF) held its 32nd biennial meeting at the Nuclear Energy Agency headquarters in Paris, France.
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14 December 2022
The goal of the Committee for Technical and Economic Studies on Nuclear Energy Development and the Fuel Cycle is to provide authoritative, reliable information on nuclear technologies, economics, str...
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1 March 2024
The CDLM assists member states in holistically addressing challenges in the execution of decommissioning and legacy management through sharing experiences among members with a broad range of expertis...
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5 May 2023
The Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) is an international committee created in 1989 to guide the NEA concerning safety in the regulation, licensing and inspection of nuclear installat...
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16 February 2024
The meeting brought together around 100 delegates from 26 member countries, 11 international organisations and associations.
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6 April 2022
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) is responsible for NEA programmes and activities that support maintaining and advancing the scientific and technical knowledge base of the ...
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10 October 2023
38 OECD countries formally adopt the Recommendation of the Council on Improving the Gender Balance in the Nuclear Sector.
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8 June 2023
Community and industry come together to workshop radioactive waste management strategies
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5 December 2022
The FSC workshop participants discussed best practices for community and youth engagement around the topic of radioactive waste disposal.
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26 October 2022
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17 January 2023
Feeders on the Reactor Face in the Feeder Cabinet Photo: Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC)
The Component Operational Experience, Degradation and Ageing Programme (CODAP) combines the follow-u...
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11 April 2024
The CTBT bans all nuclear explosions anywhere on Earth whether for military or peaceful purposes.
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13 November 2023
NEA Working Group on Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) initiated this activity focusing on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in nuclear reactor safety (NRS).
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1 September 2023