放射性廃棄物は、医療・産業・研究・発電など幅広い活動から発生する。このような廃棄物はすべて、人の健康と環境の保護を最優先して安全に管理しなくてはならない。何十年にも及ぶ研究活動を経て、国際科学界は今では、高レベル放射性廃棄物を深地層最終処分場(DGR)に定置することが安全かつ効果的であると確信するに至っている。
各国政府は、それぞれが最良であると信じるエネルギー・環境政策を実施する絶対的な権利と責...
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Zanhotel Europa, Via Cesare Boldini 11, Bologna, Italy + virtual option on ZOOM
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17 May 2023
30 May 2022 -
3 June 2022
Conference Center Hotel Aquabella, Aix-en-Provence, France (in-person meeting)
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29 March 2022
Under the guidance of the Working Party on Scientific Issues of Advanced Fuel Cycles (WPFC), the Expert Group on Reactor Coolants and Components Technology (EGCoCoT) undertakes activities to collect,...
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25 January 2024
Under the guidance of the Working Party on Scientific Issues of Advanced Fuel Cycles (WPFC), the Expert Group on Innovative Fuel Elements (EGIFE) conducts joint and comparative studies to identify te...
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8 February 2024
Under the guidance of the Working Party on Scientific Issues of Advanced Fuel Cycles (WPFC), the Expert Group on Fuel Recycling and Waste Technology (EGFRW) focuses on the separation processes releva...
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25 January 2024
Under the guidance of the Working Party on Scientific Issues of Advanced Fuel Cycles (WPFC), the Expert Group on Advanced Fuel Cycle Scenarios (EGAFCS) studies the needs associated with the transitio...
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25 January 2024
The expert group was established to develop a nuclear data structure definition that can meet the needs of a broad set of nuclear data users and providers.
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20 September 2022
The expert group is responsible for managing the activities related to the High Priority Request List (HPRL) for nuclear data, in particular for guaranteeing that the entries are up-to-date and well-...
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20 September 2022
The mission of the Expert Group of Shielding aspects of Accelerators, Targets and Irradiation Facilities (SATIF) has been completed. Its work initiated the SATIF workshops which keep on serving as in...
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5 March 2024
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13 December 2022
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Zoom - REGISTRATION CLOSED
To meet the overall safety objectives and to achieve a balanced plant design, natural hazards have to be considered in the design of nuclear installations. Deriving the strength of such events from a...
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15 April 2022
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15 November 2022
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Headquarters of the Institute of Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) - Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
The NEA Committee on Radiological Protection and Public Health (CRPPH) through its Expert Group on Recovery Management (EGRM) invited all interested stakeholders to a workshop Preparedness for post-n...
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14 November 2022
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25 March 2022
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After the Fukushima nuclear accident, many activities were initiated in the countries with nuclear energy to assess the robustness of nuclear power plants with respect to earthquakes, tsunamis and fl...
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29 March 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)5
The Workshop on Experimental Validation and Application of CFD and CMFD Codes to Nuclear Reactor Safety Issues, CFD4NRS-7 was the seventh in a series of workshops focusing on Computational Fluid Dyna...
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19 January 2022
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27 May 2024
INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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27 November 2023
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22 July 2022
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21 June 2022
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3 August 2022
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10 May 2023
International expert workshop on the approaches to design, implementation and operation of electrical systems for beyond design basis equipment and management of geomagnetic induced currents in elect...
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22 June 2023
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12 September 2023
The Nuclear Law Committee (NLC) established the Working Party on the Legal Aspects of Nuclear Safety (WPLANS) in 2016 to support the NEA’s efforts to strengthen its work in the nuclear safety area.
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5 March 2024
The WPTES aims to address technical, environmental and safety issues in the decommissioning of nuclear installations and legacy management.
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12 September 2023
The Working Party on Scientific Issues of Advanced Fuel Cycles (WPFC) studies advanced nuclear fuel cycles, including fuel cycle scenarios, innovative fuels and materials, separation chemistry, waste...
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8 February 2024
The Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS) studies the reactor physics, fuel performance, and radiation transport and shielding in present and future nu...
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21 December 2023
The Nuclear Law Committee (NLC) established the Working Party on Nuclear Liability and Transport (WPNLT) in 2016 to address the practical challenges related to the nuclear liability regime(s) applica...
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5 March 2024
The WPLDF was established to identify and address issues of application of the nuclear liability regimes to deep geological repositories (DGRs) and other radioactive waste disposal facilities.
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5 March 2024
The mission of the CRPPH Working Party on Nuclear Emergency Matters (WPNEM) is to improve nuclear emergency management systems within member countries, and to share its knowledge and experience widel...
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17 November 2023
Over its 25 years of existence, the working party has contributed many topics and has led advances in criticality safety studies.
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28 July 2022
The Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety (WPNCS) deals with technical and scientific issues relevant to criticality safety. Specific areas of interest include (but are not limited to) investig...
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28 March 2024
The Working Party on Multi-scale Modelling of Fuels and Structural Material for Nuclear Systems (WPMM) was established to deal with the scientific and engineering aspects of fuels and structural mate...
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6 December 2023
Under the guidance of the Nuclear Science Committee (NSC), the Working Party on Materials Science Issues in Nuclear Fuels and Structural Materials (WPFM) addresses materials science aspects of nuclea...
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1 June 2023
The WPMO addresses management and organisational issues for decommissioning of nuclear installations and legacy management projects.
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28 August 2023
The NEA's nuclear data evaluation co-operation activities involve the following evaluation projects: ENDF (United States), JENDL (Japan), ROSFOND/BROND (Russia), JEFF (other Data Bank member countrie...
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28 August 2023
The Working Party on Boiling Water Reactors (WPBWR) covered all boiling water reactors, including advanced boiling water reactors (ABWRs) and the Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR).
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19 February 2024
The working groups are comprised of experts from primarily academic institutions and other relevant stakeholders from NEA member and non-member countries.
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25 May 2023
The Working Group on the Regulation of New Reactors (WGRNR) examined the regulatory issues of the siting, licensing and regulatory oversight for all new commercial nuclear power reactors. The WGRNR f...
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19 February 2024
The Working Group on Supply Chain (WGSUP) works to provide a mechanism for nuclear safety regulators and technical support organizations (TSOs) to share their knowledge and experience on regulatory a...
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1 December 2023
The CNRA believes in the importance of having a working group dedicated to safety culture. The Working Group on Safety Culture (WGSC) provided a senior level regulatory forum for exchanging informati...
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19 February 2024
The Working Group supports improved uses of Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA) in risk-informed regulation and safety management through the analysis of results and the development of perspectives...
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13 March 2024
The Working Group in Public Communication of Nuclear Regulatory Organisations (WGPC) provided a forum for nuclear regulatory organisation communicators and outreach officers to exchange information, ...
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16 February 2024
The Working Group on Policy and Licensing (WGPL) is responsible for supporting and advising the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) in carrying out its programme of work in areas relate...
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16 February 2024
The main objective of the NEA Working Group on Operating Experience (WGOE) was to improve nuclear safety by sharing operating experience and knowledge.
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19 February 2024
The WGNT is responsible for supporting and advising the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) in carrying out its programme in work areas related to new technologies.
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21 November 2023
The WGLSC is responsible for supporting and advising the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) in carrying out its programme of work in areas related to leadership and safety culture.
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16 February 2024
The main mission of the Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) is to advance the current understanding of the relevant aspects related with ensuring the integrity...
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10 August 2022
The purpose of the WGIP was to facilitate the exchange of information and experience related to regulatory safety inspections among NEA member countries.
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19 February 2024
The main mission of the Working Group on Human and Organisational Factors (WGHOF) is to improve the understanding and treatment of human and organisational factors within the nuclear industry in orde...
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21 March 2024
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
The objective of the Working Group on Fuel Cycle Safety (WGFCS) is to advance the understanding of relevant aspects of nuclear fuel cycle safety, including: uranium mining and milling; uranium refini...
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4 October 2022
The main mission of the Working Group on External Events (WGEV) is to improve the understanding and treatment of external hazards that would support the continued safety performance of nuclear instal...
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10 February 2022
The Working Group on Digital Instrumentation and Control (WGDIC) promoted harmonisation and improvements in nuclear safety through the development of regulatory guidance to address digital instrument...
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16 February 2024
The Working Group on Codes and Standards (WGCS) aimed to facilitate and promote international co-operation, convergence and reconciliation of codes, standards and regulatory requirements for pressure...
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19 February 2024
The Working Group on the Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) focuses on the NEA activities related to potential design-basis and beyond design-basis accidents in nuclear reactors and related...
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20 December 2023
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19 October 2022
On the occasion of International Women's Day Friday 8 March, the NEA asked women what they most enjoy about working in the nuclear sector.
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8 March 2024
NEA work on improving gender balance in the nuclear energy sector
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8 March 2022
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13 September 2022
JANIS software description
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11 December 2023
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9 May 2023
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20 April 2022
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22 March 2022
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29 March 2022
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20 April 2022
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Virtual event
The NEA held a virtual workshop on the best regulatory practices in In-Service Inspection (ISI) in the nuclear sector on 11-14 April 2022.
Organised by the NEA Working Group on Codes and Standards (...
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20 April 2022
In the framework of the WGAMA/WGFS activity "Status Report on Good Practices for Analyses of Design Extension Condition without Significant Fuel Degradation (DEC-A) for Operating Nuclear Power Plants...
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20 December 2023
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1 June 2022
NEA/RWM/R(2019)3
This document is the third of the five interrelated reports of the Radioactive Waste Repository Metadata Management (RepMet) Initiative. The series of reports discusses the key aspects of data and re...
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1 March 2022
The overall objective of the VVER-1000 Coolant Transient (V1000CT) Benchmark was to assess computer codes used in the safety analysis of water-water energetic reactor (VVER) power plants, specificall...
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2 August 2022
The Vienna Convention establishes a nuclear liability and compensation regime similar to that provided for under the Paris Convention. The Vienna Convention is open to any state.
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24 January 2024
NEA Task Group on Improving the Gender Balance in the Nuclear Sector met to make progress on a forthcoming report on gender balance in the nuclear sector.
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28 June 2022
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3 May 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)12
As noted in the Joint CSNI/CNRA Strategic Plan and Mandates (NEA, 2019), the safe operation of current, new and advanced nuclear facilities is a key challenge for nuclear regulators and technical saf...
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11 December 2023
Uranium is the main raw material fuelling all nuclear fission reactors today. Countries around the world use it to reliably generate low-carbon electricity, process heat and hydrogen as part of their...
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3 April 2023
Presidential Decree on Organisation and Duties of the Nuclear Regulatory Authority
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2 May 2023
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22 May 2023
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17 May 2023
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7 February 2022
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7 February 2022
23 September 2022
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
Hydrogen is expected to play an essential role as part of sustainable and resilient pathways to net zero. There is growing momentum among CEM countries for scaling-up the production of low-carbon hyd...
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20 September 2022
Nuclear Energy Agency welcomes the United States' decision to join the NEA Data Bank
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15 August 2023
Nuclear legislation: United States
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19 September 2023
National legislation: United Kingdom
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19 September 2023
The NEA is helping Japan and the wider international community better understand the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and the site’s current status.
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16 February 2022
New NEA-UK programme to bring Ukrainian nuclear energy experts to the Agency.
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5 October 2023
Information note on nuclear power installations in Ukraine, updated periodically.
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13 March 2024
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18 January 2024
TVA Watts Bar Unit 1 Multi-Physics Benchmark
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19 July 2022
Aims to prohibit all nuclear weapon activities, including the development, testing, production, acquisition, possession, stockpiling, use, or threats to use nuclear weapons.
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24 January 2024
The NPT aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology (non-proliferation), to promote co-operation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy (peaceful uses) and to further the g...
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27 October 2023
NEA/NSC/R(2022)4
Under the auspices of the NEA Nuclear Science Committee (NSC), the Working Party on Scientific Issues of Advanced Fuel Cycles (WPFC) was established to co-ordinate scientific activities related to ad...
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29 November 2022
The first International School on Simulation of Nuclear Reactor Systems (SINUS) took place on 22-23 May 2023.
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14 June 2023
Co-organised with the UK Atomic Energy Authority, the course took place on 20-22 June 2023.
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24 July 2023
The NEA Data Bank organised a PENELOPE training course at the University of Barcelona in Spain on 11-15 July 2022
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1 August 2022
The NEA proposes a wide range of online and in-person courses and initiatives in nuclear-related fields.
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23 January 2024
The joint NEA/IAEA Uranium Group held its 57th meeting virtually on 3-5 November 2021.
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12 December 2021
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18 July 2022
Long-handled tools are used to remove the damaged core from the TMI unit 2 reactor in the US. Samples taken from the fuel and the reactor vessel are examined to provide information about the Behaviou...
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21 February 2024
NEA Stakeholder Involvement Workshop on Optimisation in Decision Making - Programme Overview
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31 August 2023
Phase III - “How to transparently implement and post-assess decisions for their holism, inclusiveness and sustainability?”
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21 February 2023
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19 April 2023
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18 December 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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OECD Conference Centre, 2 rue André Pascal, 75016 Paris, France
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...
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18 December 2023
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4 May 2023
The Third International Workshop on the Indemnification of Damage in the Event of a Nuclear Accident was held in Bratislava, Slovak Republic in October 2017. It was organised in co-operation with the...
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12 March 2024
Building on the success of the previous events held in August 2020 and June 2021, the NEA hosted a Global Commencement ceremony on 29 June 2022 to congratulate the graduating nuclear engineering and ...
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23 June 2022
The TAF-ID public version contains only data already published in open literature. Currently, the following systems are available in the public version:
- oxide-carbide fuel (U-Pu-O-C, released Decemb...
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23 February 2023
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2 August 2023
Image: Microscopic examination of U-bearing particles collected at Fukushima-Daiichi, JAEA
TCOFF Phases
First Phase (2017-2020)
The Thermodynamic Characterisation of Fuel Debris and Fission Products ...
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6 October 2023
The Thermochemical Database (TDB) Project develops a reference database of chemical thermodynamic values for elements and compounds relevant to the safety of radioactive waste repositories and vital ...
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2 May 2023
Scheme of the THAI+ facility, Becker Technologies.
The experimental investigations carried out in the frame of the THAI (2007-2009), THAI-2 (2011-2014) and THAI-3 (2016-2019) projects contributed s...
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2 October 2023
High-temperature gas-cooled nuclear reactors are one of the next generation reactor designs. This benchmark consists of a multi-staged code-to-code-to-data thermal hydraulics code validation benchmar...
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19 July 2023
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10 March 2022
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10 March 2022
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10 March 2022
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10 March 2022
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10 March 2022
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10 March 2022
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22 March 2022
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10 March 2022
The Working Group on Reactor Oversight (WGRO) works to provide a mechanism for nuclear safety regulators and Technical Support Organisations (TSOs) to share their knowledge and experience on both, th...
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30 November 2023
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Strategic Plan serves as a guiding instrument that reflects the priorities of its member countries as the Agency addresses evolving needs in the exploration and a...
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25 January 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
NEA/NDC/R(2023)1
This report includes information provided confidentially by supply chain participants to support this new work of the NEA, which follows previous work undertaken by the High-level Group on the Securi...
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30 October 2023
Over the past 20 years, the NEA Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) has worked extensively on the involvement of local stakeholders in decision-making processes concerning high-level radioactive wa...
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2 June 2023
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
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
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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
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
23 September 2023
Nantes, France
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24 August 2023
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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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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
Nuclear legislation: Switzerland
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19 September 2023
Nuclear legislation: Sweden
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19 September 2023
Around 90 radiological protection professionals and researchers, representing regulators, research institutions and government entities from NEA member countries and beyond, joined Preparedness for P...
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24 November 2022
The Expert Group on the Use of Real-Time Platforms (EGRT) initiated and distributed an online survey on the real-time platforms used in NEA member countries.
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6 April 2022
The NEA has launched a survey to collect information from member countries to be incorporated into a revised version of the NEA’s Country Protective Measures Handbook.
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25 April 2023
Supporting the use of computational fluid dynamics for nuclear reactor safety
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27 June 2023
Efforts to retain knowledge, focus on human capital issues and stimulate technological innovation have thrived since 2019 with the launch of two major activities
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22 March 2022
The Working Party on Nuclear Emergency Matters (WPNEM) met on 3-5 November 2021. Discussions included how countries are continuing to learn from and adapt their emergency management arrangements in r...
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15 December 2021
NEA organises a mentoring workshop in the United Kingdom on International Women's Day.
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28 March 2023
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6 December 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2021)6
Within the context of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Advanced Thermal-hydraulic Test Loop for Accident Simulation (ATLAS) project, a series of tests were performed to resolve key thermal-hydraulic s...
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18 February 2022
NEA/CRPPH/R(2019)5
The Joint Symposium on “Decommissioning, Reconstruction, Rehabilitation, and Food Safety: Rebuilding Post-Accident Confidence” – organised by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Developmen...
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22 June 2022
NEA/NSC/R(2023)9
The Expert Group on Innovative Structural Materials (EGISM) was created in 2008 under the auspices of the Nuclear Science Committee’s (NSC) Working Party on Scientific Issues of the Fuel Cycle (WPFC)...
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12 March 2024
Online Event Focusing on Innovation within Nuclear Decommissioning - 25 March 2021
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13 January 2023
The NEA organised a Workshop on Competency Management of regulators for the broad discussion of the challenges regarding the competency of regulators in the areas of radioactive waste management, dec...
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5 August 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2022)8
Several NEA member countries agreed to establish the Component Operational Experience, Degradation and Ageing Programme (CODAP) to encourage co-operation in the collection and analysis of data relati...
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13 March 2024
The NEA held a Nuclear Safety Research Joint Projects Week virtual event from 9-13 January 2023 to review the accomplishments of NEA Joint Nuclear Safety Projects over the last four decades and to di...
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27 February 2024
Read the summary and main outcomes of the NEA Nuclear Safety Research Joint Projects Week.
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13 March 2024
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)13
Since 2001, the NEA has supported the Senior Expert Group on Safety Research Thermal-hydraulics (SETH), the Primärkreislauf-Versuchsanlage - Primary Coolant Loop Test Facility (PKL), PKL-2 and PKL-3 ...
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23 November 2022
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10 May 2023
The Subgroup on Uncertainty Analysis in Modelling (UAM) for Design, Operation and Safety Analysis of Sodium-cooled Fast Reactors (SFR-UAM) was formed to check the use of best-estimate codes and data....
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18 January 2024
NEA/NSC/R(2020)8
The following report is issued by the WPEC Subgroup 27, which builds upon the work of the previous Subgroups 21 and 23, critically reviewing the gamma emission data and providing recommendations to i...
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1 February 2022
Studsvik’s pool facility for storage and inspection of SMILE materials, left: 29 tonnes transportation flask, three pools each about 8 meters deep; and right: pool-in-pool for cutting and inspections...
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11 October 2022
Left: Scheme of Studsvik LOCA test facility Right: Microstructure of fragmented nuclear fuel, Studsvik
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7 December 2022
NEA Committee Structure, January 2024
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4 October 2022
Structure des comités et organes subsidiaires de l’Agence pour l’énergie nucléaire, janvier 2024.
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4 October 2022
Fire protection layer for electrical cables
The Stress Corrosion Cracking and Cable Ageing Project (SCAP) lasted four years (2006-2010). The project’s main objectives were to:
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21 February 2024
Strengthening the future of the nuclear sector’s workforce
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16 March 2023
10-year FIDES-II strategic plan will define key research needs in a variety of technical disciplines.
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19 June 2023
The Steering Committee for Nuclear Energy convened on 20-21 April in Paris.
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26 April 2023
NEA Steering Committee for Nuclear Energy biannual meeting took place on 20-21 October 2022.
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26 October 2022
The Steering Committee for Nuclear Energy held its 146th Session in Paris.
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27 October 2023
Gender balance policy framework approved
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3 November 2022
Image at melt distribution and its contour at MBC (KAERI).
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) initiated a co...
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2 October 2023
NEA/RWM/R(2022)1
Robotics and remote systems (RRS) are essential technologies for work in the radiation environments typically encountered in the nuclear back-end, such as in radioactive waste management and decommis...
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13 January 2023
StatLink files from Nuclear Energy Data 2021. Download all the Excel files from the volume in one click.
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8 June 2022
NEA/NSC/R(2021)3
Monte Carlo criticality calculations involve a two-step procedure based on a stochastic implementation of the power iteration method: first, achieve convergence of the fission source distribution dur...
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17 February 2023
The NEA community is deeply saddened by the passing of the Honourable Donald Johnston, OECD Secretary-General from 1996 until 2006.
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11 February 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
As a follow-up to the 2010 NEA report Nuclear Fuel Behaviour under Reactivity-initiated Accident (RIA) Conditions: State-of-the-art Report 2010, this report presents the state-of-the-art knowledge on...
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17 October 2022
The 13th National Workshop organised by the NEA Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) took place on 23-25 October in Ohio, United States.
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22 November 2023
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) acts as a centre for informed exchange of knowledge and experience regarding stakeholder interaction and public participatio...
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20 January 2022
Knowledge of basic nuclear physics data is essential for the modelling and safe operation of all types of nuclear facilities. The de facto international standard format, Evaluated Nuclear Data File 6...
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22 September 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2021)1
The Specialists Workshop on Advanced Instrumentation and Measurement Techniques for Experiments Related to Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics and Severe Accidents (SWINTH-2019), co-organised by the S...
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5 October 2022
The NEA Working Group on Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) organised a specialists’ meeting on transient thermal-hydraulics in water cooled nuclear reactors on 22-23 March 2022.
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6 April 2022
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25 September 2023
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15 February 2024
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16 November 2022
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16 November 2022
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7 November 2022
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21 November 2022
Nuclear legislation: Spain
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19 September 2023
EPICUR facility, IRSN.
STEM phases
First phase (2011-2015)
The STEM Project was initiated with a first phase in 20...
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27 October 2023
13 March 2023
15:00-16:30 CET, Online
Nuclear innovation in small modular reactors (SMRs) has the potential to address multiple energy policy priorities around the world, from decarbonising electricity and deep decarbonisation of hard-to...
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27 February 2023
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13 June 2022
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31 August 2022
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4 December 2023
Nuclear legislation: Slovenia
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19 September 2023
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3 December 2021
Nuclear legislation: Slovak Republic
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19 September 2023
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Idaho Falls (ID, US), Idaho National Laboratory
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), Idaho National Laboratory, and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) co-organised the Sixth International Workshop on Structural Materials for Innovative Nuc...
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31 August 2022
There is a consensus in the international community that geological repositories provide the necessary long-term safety and security to isolate long-lived radioactive waste. However, despite the tech...
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4 September 2023
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Spent nuclear fuel repository site, Olkiluoto, Finland. Photo: Kallerna.
Introduction
The Sixth International Conference on Geological Repositories (ICGR) took place in Helsinki, Finland from 4-8 A...
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3 November 2022
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INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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18 July 2023
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20 April 2023
NEA/RWM/R(2019)2
This document is the second of the five interrelated reports of the Radioactive Waste Repository Metadata Management (RepMet) Initiative. The series of reports discusses the key aspects of data and r...
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1 March 2022
The Shielding Integral Benchmark Archive and Database (SINBAD) database contains compilations for 46 reactor shielding, 31 fusion neutronics and 23 accelerator shielding experiments.
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10 January 2024
NEA/NSC/R(2021)2
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop, 30 October-2 November 2018, Gyeongju, Korea.
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16 December 2021
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8 December 2021
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15 March 2022
Experts attended NEA event in France.
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14 September 2023
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BPEX - Busan Port International Exhibition & Convention Centre, Busan, Korea
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...
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15 December 2021
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15 December 2022
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15 December 2022
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15 December 2022
Scheme of the PKL facility, Framatome GmbH.
The SESAR Thermal-hydraulics (SETH) Project began in 2001 and consisted of thermal-hydraulic experiments in support of accident management, which were ca...
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2 October 2023
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Online training course
Dates: 27-31 May 2024
Time: 17:00-21:00 (CEST, Paris time)/10:00-14:00 (CDT USA/Mexico)/12:00-16:00 (UTC-3, Argentina)
Minimum enrollment: 12 participants
Maximum enrollment: 15 participants
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NEA, Paris, France
Date: 14-17 November 2023
Place: NEA Headquarters
46, Quai Alphonse Le Gallo
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt (Paris) - FRANCE
Minimum enrollment: 12 participants
Maximum enrollment: 20 participants...
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2 October 2023
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 ...
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24 May 2023
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...
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30 May 2023
Phase II - “How to balance competing aspects and interests (as defined by the prevailing circumstances) in decision making to reach holistic, inclusive and sustainable decisions?”
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20 January 2023
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4 May 2023
JEFF Nuclear Data Week promotes co-operation between experimentalists, evaluators, producers and end-users of nuclear data.
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19 December 2023
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Online training & in-person event on 20-22 May 2024 in Lucca, Italy
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21 December 2023
The NEA Second Framework for Irradiation Experiments (FIDES-II) supports the fuel and material experimental needs of nuclear safety regulators, technical support organisations, research institutions ...
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21 November 2023
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NEA, Paris (France)
Place: OECD/NEA Headquarters in Paris, France
Minimum enrollment required: 12 participants
Course fee: 2300 EUR
Registration closed
The training course will be taught in English.
Participan...
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NEA, Paris (France)
This training course provides instruction on the use of the KENO-VI Monte Carlo code for criticality safety calculations and the MAVRIC (Monaco with Automated Variance Reduction using Importance Calc...
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Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan (USA)
The 15th workshop on Shielding aspects of Accelerators, Targets, and Irradiation Facilities (SATIF) is tentatively planned to be held in East Lansing, Michigan, USA, on 20-23 September 2022. The SATI...
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2 November 2021
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)16
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...
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30 May 2023
Post-test view inside OLHF-4 vessel showing penetrations and resolidified weld material at the vessel bottom.
During a severe accident, the lower head of a reactor pressure vessel (RPV) can be subj...
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27 October 2023
Photos: SFP testing. Left: fuel assembly after a Zr fire; right: fire ignition test. SNL/USNRC.
The goal of the Sandia Fuel Project was to provide experimental data relevant for hydraulic and ignitio...
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Mercure Budapest Castle Hill, Budapest, Hungary
Over the past two decades, the safety case has become a powerful and essential tool to support decision making for every stage of a geological disposal programme. Now, an increasing number of nationa...
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4 March 2024
Nuclear legislation: Russian Federation
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19 September 2023
A number of tests with detail well documented neutronics and thermal-hydraulics measurements data have been performed at the Rostov Unit 2 (Rostov-2) nuclear power plant (NPP). The reactor type is a ...
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2 August 2022
National legislation: Romania
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25 April 2022
NEA/NSC/R(2021)1
This benchmark report has been compiled under the guidance of the NEA Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety (WPNCS) in the Subgroup on the Role of Integral Experiment Uncertainties and Covarian...
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30 January 2023
Photo: RBHT Test Facility. US NRC.
Modelling reactor core behaviour under accident conditions with delayed re-introduction of cooling water (commonly referred to as reflood) is a challenge for safety...
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27 October 2023
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OECD Conference Centre, Paris, France
NEA analysis highlights that meeting global net zero targets necessitates a tripling of installed nuclear capacity by 2050. Concurrently, nuclear new build has become a top priority in several OEC...
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7 November 2023
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OECD Conference Centre, Paris, France
NEA projections show that in order to successfully achieve net zero by 2050, nuclear energy capacity will need to at least double and potentially triple compared to today. As a result, the topic of n...
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30 August 2023
Scheme of the ROSA LSTF facility, JAEA
The Rig-of-safety Assessment (ROSA) Project aimed to resolve issues in thermal-hydraulics analyses relevant to light water reactor (LWR) safety using the Japa...
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6 October 2023
The NEA Expert Group on International Recommendations (EGIR) met for its second meeting on 11 March 2022.
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4 April 2022
The NEA Data Bank's first in-person course since the pandemic started was on FISPACT, an enhanced multi-physics platform for neutron, proton, alpha, deuteron or gamma particle interactions.
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27 June 2022
Second Workshop on International Harvesting Co-operation focused on the status of aged metals harvesting and opportunities for international collaborative research.
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14 December 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)3
When looking for a validation experiment for CFD application to reactor simulation for either design or safety studies, it appears that available data often suffer from a lack of local measurements, ...
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17 February 2022
National legislation: Republic of Türkiye
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19 September 2023
NEA/RWM/R(2019)4
This document is the fourth of the five interrelated reports of the Radioactive Waste Repository Metadata Management (RepMet) Initiative. The series of reports discusses the key aspects of data and r...
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1 March 2022
NEA/RWM/R(2019)5
This document is the fifth of the five interrelated reports of the Radioactive Waste Repository Metadata Management (RepMet) Initiative. The series of reports discusses the key aspects of data and re...
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1 March 2022
International Nuclear Law Essentials course
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15 March 2023
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Tabloo, Dessel, Belgium
How can knowledge of high-level radioactive waste existence, nature and history be passed on to future generations? The NEA Expert Group on Awareness Preservation (EGAP) has been focusing on this que...
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13 December 2022
The NEA Working Group on Safety Culture (WGSC) held its biannual meeting on 23-25 November 2021 to review the ongoing work on safety culture and leadership in nuclear regulators.
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8 December 2021
NEA/CRPPH/R(2021)1
Successes and Challenges to the Approaches Identified Through a Survey of Regulators
This report summarises the practical experiences of regulators and stakeholders worldwide in implementing the Inte...
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2 March 2022
The NEA will host a webinar to launch its new report “Regulatory Implementation of the Equivalent Dose Limit for the Lens of the Eye for Occupational Exposure: Successes and challenges to the approac...
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15 February 2022
NEA Regulators' Forum meet at the NEA in Paris to discuss regulatory issues
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26 April 2023
NEA and NRA held joint conference on regulators' views in Tokyo, Japan 10 years after TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi NPS Accident.
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12 December 2022
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17 December 2021
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8 February 2022
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6 April 2022
The publication of the latest EGIR report marks the completion of phase one of the group's programme of work.
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30 May 2023
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20 July 2023
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28 February 2024
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13 March 2023
Left: Test facility for qualification of melt spreading tests. Photo: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL).
Right: Example of corium melt pouring for a melt spreading preparatory test. Photo: Argonne Nat...
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6 April 2023
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13 December 2021
The webinar "Research and international dialogue in technology nuclear power - What role for Italy?", was held on 17- 18 November 2021.
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14 December 2021
NEA/CNRA/R(2022)5
This report outlines first the safety concerns and the regulatory basis for reactor water level measurement diversity and reliability in participating countries. After that the measurement methods an...
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25 March 2024
One of the key areas in fuel safety is the analysis of fuel behaviour under reactivity-initiated accident conditions. Reactivity-initiated accident fuel rod codes have been developed for a significan...
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13 April 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 July 2023
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7 November 2023
The Management Board of the Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) held its 33rd meeting in Vienna on 4-7 December 2023.
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19 December 2023
Established in 2014, the WGDECOM unites 19 experts from 12 countries in developing a process to better share radiological protection data.
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21 November 2023
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Oslo, Norway
While the ongoing war in Ukraine has not thus far resulted in any major radiological threats to public health and safety, it is the first time in history that a country with significant nuclear and r...
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6 December 2023
The Working Group on the Radiological Protection Aspects of Decommissioning Activities at Nuclear Power Plants (WGDECOM) holds its 12th meeting in Germany
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13 December 2022
The new task force will explore radiological protection and publich health challenges of SMRs.
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25 November 2022
A group of researchers and experts operating under the aegis of the High-Level Group of Low Dose Research, a working party of the Committee on Radiological Protection and Public Health (NEA CRPPH)
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22 January 2024
Image: QUENCH facility at KIT. Court. KIT.
The purpose of the QUENCH-ATF project is to investigate the chemical, mechanical and thermal-hydraulics behaviour of ATF claddings in Design Basis Accident...
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17 May 2023
The Nuclear Law Bulletin (NLB) welcomes submissions from professionals and academics involved in or interested in the field of nuclear law.
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26 April 2022
Scheme of the PSB-VVER facility, EREC
The NEA PSB-VVER project provided unique and useful experimental data for code validation using the PSB-VVER test facility. The PSB-VVER facility is a large-scal...
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6 October 2023
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12 April 2022
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15 November 2022
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10 November 2022
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11 October 2022
The 2004 Protocol to the PC improves the existing regime by requiring that more money be made available to compensate more victims for a broader range of damages.
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12 April 2022
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23 March 2023
1982 Protocol to Amend 1963 Brussels Supplementary Convention
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12 May 2023
The 2004 Protocol to the BSC improves the existing regime by requiring that significantly more compensation be made available to supplement that which is to be provided for under the Paris Conventi...
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12 April 2022
The 1997 Vienna Protocol improves the original regime by requiring that more money be made available to compensate more victims for a broad range of damages.
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5 January 2024
The Kiev Protocol requires states to evaluate the consequences of their official draft plans and programmes, and, to the extent appropriate, policies and legislation that are likely to have signifi...
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24 January 2024
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9 March 2023
At the heart of the NEST Framework are multinational and multidisciplinary projects, so-called NEST projects.
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24 May 2023
More than 20 international experts gathered for the second meeting of the third phase of the TAF-ID project.
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21 December 2023
Two new reports from the WGFS highlight the latest developments in RIA research.
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30 November 2022
The NEA hosted the 16th edition of information exchange meetings on actinide and fission product partitioning and transmutation (16IEMPT).
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22 November 2023
The NEA and CAEA held the NEA-China Forum on Nuclear Decommissioning and Radioactive Waste Management in Beijing.
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23 October 2023
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7 April 2022
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14 November 2022
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20 October 2023
The Multinational Design Evaluation Programme (MDEP) entered a new phase on 14 December 2021. The MDEP will continue in its role as a unique multinational initiative leveraging the resources and know...
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15 December 2021
The NEA Division of Nuclear Law (DNL) helps create sound national and international legal regimes required for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
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25 April 2022
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18 October 2022
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21 November 2022
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9 November 2022
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8 August 2022
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5 December 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)4
The investigation conducted in the last 15 years on different aspects of Source Term worldwide, and particularly in the context of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in the form of projects and the Work...
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14 April 2022
NEA/CNRA/R(2020)3
The main objectives of the Special International Nuclear Regulatory Inspection Workshop on Digital Instrumentation & Control (DI&C), which was jointly held by the Nuclear Energy Agency’s (NEA) Workin...
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25 August 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)18
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Workshop on Structural Reliability Evaluation and Mechanical Probabilistic Approaches of NPP Components was held in Lyon, France on 25-27 S...
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20 December 2021
Proceedings of the Second Specialists' Meeting on Shielding Aspects of Accelerators, Targets, and Irradiation Facilities (SATIF) at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland on 12-13 October 1995.
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4 March 2024
Joint NEA and IAEA event will explore probabilistic safety assessment for reactors of singular designs
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28 April 2022
Principles and Practice of International Nuclear Law examines the various interrelated legal issues for the safe, efficient and secure use of nuclear energy. It provides an overview of the complex bo...
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14 February 2022
PKL facility. Photo: FRAMATOME, Germany
The Primärkreislauf-Versuchsanlage (Primary Coolant Loop Test Facility [PKL]) is a facility owned and operated by Framatome GmbH (formerly AREVA NP) in Erlange...
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6 October 2023
Prevention, mitigation and management of potential accidents in nuclear power plants
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5 October 2022
The NEA Working Group on the Analysis and Management of Accidents convened for its annual meeting to discuss ongoing work related to accident strategy and management.
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14 September 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
PWR MOX/UO2 Core Transient Benchmark
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7 December 2022
This benchmark incorporated full 3-D modelling of the reactor core into system transient codes for best-estimate simulations of the interactions between reactor core behaviour and plant dynamics and ...
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2 August 2022
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3 July 2023
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3 July 2023
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3 July 2023
Presentations from the International workshop on disruptive technologies for nuclear safety applications
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1 June 2023
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3 July 2023
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5 May 2023
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4 January 2023
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20 January 2023
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21 February 2023
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20 January 2023
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4 January 2023
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4 May 2022
INEX-6 will be the largest exercise in over 20 years.
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30 May 2023
In preparation for INEX-G, the NEA Expert Group on the Sixth International Nuclear Emergency Exercise held a briefing session on 19 October.
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23 November 2023
End state of debris in the units 1-3 of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings. Photo: Japan Atomic Energy Agency
The Preparatory Study on Analysis of Fuel D...
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25 November 2022
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24 April 2023
This report presents practical guidance to enhance leadership for safety in nuclear regulatory bodies. It identifies the effective characteristics, competencies and behaviours of leaders in regulator...
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12 March 2024
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10 March 2023
Workshop: The medium and the message: Challenges and solutions in selecting and preserving records of radioactive waste
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12 September 2023
P2M includes in-pile tests and Post-Irradiated Examinations in Hot-Laboratory to assess the operational margins at high power.
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6 December 2023
The new project assembled global experts at the NEA.
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25 July 2022
In the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi accident in March 2011, nuclear regulators, industry organisations, and operating companies across the globe began the process of understanding the lessons l...
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17 January 2023
Human and organisational factors lessons learnt implementing post-Fukushima actions
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17 January 2023
Summaries of actions taken and questionnaire responses regarding human and organisational factors addressed by these actions.
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17 January 2023
National legislation: Portugal
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19 September 2023
Nuclear legislation: Poland
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19 September 2023
PAKS control room.
Under an agreement with the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, (JAERI), the NEA supported an international research project with the goal of developing a plant safety monito...
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19 December 2023
Pipe Degradation & Failure as a Function of In-Service Time (Years) at the time of the OPDE project closure
The goals of the Piping Failure Data Exchange (OPDE) Project were to:
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20 February 2024
The NEA Data Bank held an OpenMC training course, the first of its kind, on 25-28 April 2022.
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11 May 2022
Instruction to get started prior to the course.
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18 August 2022
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NEA, Paris, France
Date: 13-17 May 2024
Place: NEA Headquarters
46, Quai Alphonse Le Gallo
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt (Paris) - FRANCE
Minimum enrollment: 10 participants
Maximum enrollment: 20 participants
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18 January 2024
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NEA, Paris (France)
PHITS (Particle and Heavy Ion Transport code System) is a general purpose Monte Carlo particle transport simulation code developed under a collaboration between Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and ...
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6 September 2022
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18 January 2024
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18 August 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
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30 June 2023
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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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17 April 2023
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29 March 2022
The aim of the benchmark is to improve understanding and modelling of pellet-cladding mechanical interaction (PCMI) amongst NEA member organisations. This is achieved by comparing PCMI predictions of...
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23 March 2022
Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy of 29 July 1960, as amended by the Additional Protocol of 28 January 1964, by the Protocol of 16 November 1982 and by the Protocol o...
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2 February 2024
Latest status of ratifications or accessions to the Paris Convention on Nuclear Third Party Liability.
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4 April 2023
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9 March 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
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 countrie...
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25 September 2023
Compilation of the decisions, recommendations and interpretations concerning the Paris Convention
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13 March 2023
PANDA vessel assembly (construction phase, 1993), PSI.
The PANDA project is a follow-up of the HYMERES-2 project, and its general objective is to advance the knowledge on the containment of thermal...
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31 August 2023
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10 March 2022
The NEA event reviews the accomplishments of the joint safety projects.
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27 January 2023
The number of nuclear reactors approaching decommissioning, or already in the process of decommissioning, is increasing globally. Planning and performing decommissioning and dismantling activities ra...
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10 June 2022
Leaders from regulation, government, industry, academia, international organisations and NGOs on 5-7 September 2023 in Paris.
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23 October 2023
NEA/RWM/R(2019)6
In July 2016, the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) held a joint workshop to evaluate the current state of the art on operational safety of geological repo...
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30 November 2021
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31 January 2022
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28 April 2022
Online training course
OpenMC is a community-developed Monte Carlo neutron and photon transport simulation code. It is capable of performing fixed source, k-eigenvalue, and subcritical multiplication calculations on models...
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21 April 2022
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27 October 2022
Online training course
OpenMC is a community-developed Monte Carlo neutron and photon transport simulation code. It is capable of performing fixed source, k-eigenvalue and subcritical multiplication calculations on models ...
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23 September 2022
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9 March 2023
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7 April 2023
OECD Headquarters, Paris
Dates: 3-7 April, 2023
Place: OECD Headquarters in Paris, France
Minimum enrollment required: 12 participants
Course fee: 1000 EUR
This 4.5-day interactive course is intended to give students a thorough...
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27 January 2023
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6 September 2022
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23 September 2022
NUPEC Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) Full-size Fine-mesh Bundle Test (BFBT) Benchmark
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2 August 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(2021)8
The objective of the NEA THAI-3 project was to address open questions concerning the behaviour of hydrogen, iodine and aerosols under severe accident conditions in the containment of water cooled rea...
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28 August 2023
PAKS Nuclear Power Plant, Hungary.
During a fuel crud removal operation on the Paks-2 unit on 10 April 2003, several fuel assemblies were severely damaged. The assemblies were being cleaned in a sp...
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2 October 2023
Convention/treaty status of each member country of the OECD or the NEA.
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24 January 2024
Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) is jointly sponsored by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Since 1992, ISOE has provided a forum for...
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24 October 2023
The Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) is jointly sponsored by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Since 1992, ISOE has provided a forum...
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21 November 2022
NEA/NSC/R(2020)7
In the past decade, a large amount of effort has been made towards the direct simulation of the boiling transition (BT) for boiling water reactor (BWR) fuel bundles. This international benchmark, bas...
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2 December 2021
Nuclear-hydrogen drives discussions at the Global Clean Energy Action Forum in Pittsburgh.
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24 October 2022
Established to help fulfil the objectives of the Agency and the Nuclear Science Committee (NSC), the NSC Programme Review Group (PRG) formulates recommendations based on best practices to optimise ac...
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19 March 2024
The NEA nuclear science programme is developed and executed by the Nuclear Science Committee (NSC), comprising high-level scientific experts from all NEA member countries.
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6 December 2023
One of the major achievements of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) is the knowledge it has helped to generate through the organisation of joint international research projects. Such projects, prim...
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27 February 2024
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16 November 2023
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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8 August 2023
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9 December 2022
Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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This training course focused on communicating risk on a daily basis. Its aim was to improve the effectiveness of risk communication in order to enhance ...
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27 September 2022
The NEA Working Group on Safety Culture (WGSC) gathered delegates for its biannual meeting on 18-20 October 2022.
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30 November 2022
20 September 2023
NEA, 46 Quai Alphonse Le Gallo, 92100, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
The NEA nuclear data stakeholder meeting, hosted at the NEA headquarters, will gather representatives from organisations that are end-users of nuclear modelling and simulation tools to exchange views...
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4 September 2023
The NEA Division of Nuclear Law (DNL) works on a suite of publications, workshops and symposia to advance cooperation and understanding of nuclear liability.
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21 April 2022
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2 June 2023
Analytical studies on nuclear legislation in OECD member countries and in Central and Eastern Europe and the NIS issued between 1995 and 2003.
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27 October 2023
The NEA workshop took place in Fukushima on 29-31 July.
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23 October 2023
The NEA Nuclear Law Committee and the Contracting Parties to the Paris Convention held their meetings to discuss key issues and future work in the field of nuclear law.
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20 July 2022
The NEA gathered nuclear law experts for meetings in June 2023.
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26 June 2023
WPLANS members gathered on 27 September 2023.
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4 October 2023
Nuclear Law Education Resources
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6 June 2023
The Nuclear Law Committee (NLC) is a highly focused group of specialists designated by the NEA member countries, comprising lawyers, policy makers, academics and from time to time, technical experts....
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5 March 2024
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14 June 2022
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law. It provides readers with authoritative and comprehensive information o...
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14 March 2024
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law. It provides readers with authoritative and comprehensive information o...
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22 September 2023
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law. It provides readers with authoritative and comprehensive information o...
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7 July 2022
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law. It provides readers with authoritative and comprehensive information o...
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12 January 2022
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law. It provides readers with authoritative and comprehensive information o...
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5 July 2023
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law. It provides readers with authoritative and comprehensive information o...
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19 October 2022
Older issues of the Nuclear Law Bulletin (Nos. 1 to 80).
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3 April 2023
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law.
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14 March 2024
Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities Safety Week
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7 November 2022
Focused on recent progress and challenges for nuclear financing, the virtual event concluded a series of six webinars dedicated to nuclear financing organised this year.
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6 December 2021
Organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Climate and Environment of Poland, the conference gathered stakeholders in Warsaw on 8 December.
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12 December 2022
NEA Director-General Magwood joined a line-up of over 200 speakers in the World Governments Summit in Dubai on 12-14 February.
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28 February 2024
As governments around the world are committing to reaching net zero emissions by 2050, many countries are looking at the role hydrogen can play in mitigating climate change. This page provides more i...
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16 September 2022
23 June 2023
14:00-15:30 CEST - Room D, OECD, 2 Rue André Pascal, 75016 Paris, France and Online
Many African countries are considering nuclear energy in their plans to increase electricity supply while reducing emissions. As part of the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact the OECD Nuclear En...
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12 June 2023
The NEA took part in the ENEN2plus project which aims to address the key challenges of energy security and climate change through training and education on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the...
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12 December 2022
Nuclear Energy Data is the Nuclear Energy Agency’s annual compilation of statistics and country reports documenting nuclear power status in NEA member countries and in the OECD area. Information prov...
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1 June 2022
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4 December 2023
As a low-carbon electricity source, nuclear energy has a role to play in global climate change mitigation efforts.
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4 November 2022
Nuclear Energy Agency Welcomes Assistant Secretary Huff’s Announcement on the United States’ Decision to Join the NEA Data Bank
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16 August 2023
Nuclear emergency planning, response and recovery
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30 November 2022
Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology Press Pitch 2022
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18 October 2022
The NEA launched the Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework in partnership with its member countries to help address important gaps in nuclear skills capacity building, knowledge t...
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13 September 2023
NEST Board assembles for 6th meeting in Paris
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25 October 2022
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25 November 2022
NEA Headquarters, 46 Alphonse Le Gallo, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
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17 October 2022
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26 April 2024
NEA Headquarters, 46 Alphonse Le Gallo, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
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15 March 2024
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28 April 2023
NEA Headquarters, 46 Alphonse Le Gallo, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
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21 April 2023
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29 April 2022
OECD Conference Center, Château de la Muette, Paris / Hybrid meeting
The Joint Evaluated Fission and Fusion File (JEFF) Nuclear Data Library Project is a collaboration between NEA Data Bank participating countries. The JEFF library combines the efforts of its differen...
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21 April 2022
Nuclear Data Sensitivity Tool (NDaST), aims to provide rapid feedback on the effect of changes to nuclear data on integral benchmarks.
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17 May 2022
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4 May 2023
Under the guidance of the Nuclear Science Committee (NSC), the Task Force on Demonstration of Fuel Cycle Closure including Partitioning and Transmutation (P&T) for Industrial Readiness by 2050 (TF-FC...
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8 January 2024
Nuclear legislation: Norway
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25 April 2022
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30 June 2022