Climate change will create specific risks and challenges for nuclear power plants and the electricity system as a whole. Extreme weather events caused by climate change – such as floods, storms, heat...
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4 November 2021
Understanding the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is important for safe and timely decommissioning of the reactors. This objective, together with the development of better compu...
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28 September 2021
Seismic probabilistic safety assessment (SPSA) is a systematic method for examining and evaluating the risk from earthquake-initiated accidents. The significant advances in the area of SPSA since the...
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27 September 2021
This report highlights the potential role of nuclear in contributing to the circular carbon economy as a low-carbon source of electricity, but also as a source of heat and system integration services...
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23 September 2021
Experimental facilities in nuclear energy are key to addressing safety issues. The recent loss of some critical infrastructure, from facilities to industry expertise, has therefore become a concern f...
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8 September 2021
The existing nuclear fleet remains the largest low-carbon source of electricity generation in OECD countries. In 2021 the average nuclear power plant had already been operating for 31 years and some ...
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29 July 2021
東日本大震災とそれに続く福島第一原子力発電所事故から10年が経ち、多くの教訓が得られたが、まだ多くの課題が残っている。
この報告書は福島第一原子力発電所の現況と、事故後の日本の当局並びに国際社会の対応について報告するもので、事故に起因する多面的な問題を政策決定者と一般市民双方が理解することに役立つであろう。それには、災害復旧努力、損害賠償、原子力安全、原子力規制、放射線防護、廃炉作業、放射性廃棄物...
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28 July 2021
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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15 July 2021
Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic 2020 was a very active and impactful year at the NEA. The Agency quickly adjusted to the situation, switched to virtual methods of interaction, and continued to ...
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21 June 2021
L’année 2020 a été marquée par une forte activité et des résultats importants pour l’AEN, en dépit de la pandémie de Covid-19. L’Agence s’est rapidement adaptée à une situation pourtant inédite et a ...
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21 June 2021
The world’s nuclear power reactors are ageing, with the majority approaching the end of their planned operational lifetimes in the coming years. The adequacy of funding for decommissioning and radioa...
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18 June 2021
This report further explores some of the key elements presented in The Safety Culture of an Effective Regulatory Body (2016), commonly known as the NEA Green Booklet, and provides both an overview an...
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10 May 2021
As the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (NPP) accident illustrates, many challenges have to be faced in maintaining safety over the long term in a damaged NPP following a severe accident. These ...
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29 April 2021
Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) are gaining recognition among policymakers and industry players as a promising nuclear technology. SMRs can be defined as nuclear reactors with a power output between 10...
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13 April 2021
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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18 March 2021
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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5 March 2021
Much has been learnt in the ten years since the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and the subsequent accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, but significant challenges still remain.
This ...
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3 March 2021
The decisions made about protective actions of people and the environment in situations involving exposure to ionising radiation have tended to be driven by subjective judgements about the health ris...
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26 February 2021
A wealth of technical information exists on nuclear fuel cycle options – combinations of nuclear fuel types, reactor types, used or spent nuclear fuel (SNF) treatments, and disposal schemes – and mos...
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22 February 2021
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Uranium is the raw material used to produce fuel for long-lived nuclear power facilities, necessary for the generation of significant amounts of low-carbon electricity and other uses, such as heat an...
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23 December 2020
This joint report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) is the ninth in a series of studies on electricity generating costs. As countries work towards ensuring ...
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9 December 2020
The diversity in classification schemes across countries has restricted the possibility of comparing waste inventories and led to difficulties in interpreting waste management practices, both nationa...
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26 November 2020
The quality of the isotopic composition of plutonium fuel degrades as the number of recycles increases in thermal reactors, requiring an increase in the total loading necessary in mixed plutonium-ura...
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17 November 2020
A joint NEA-EC workshop entitled “Engineered Barrier Systems: Design Requirements and Constraints” was organised in Turku, Finland on 26-29 August 2003 and hosted by Posiva Oy. The main objectives of...
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11 November 2020
Low-level and very low-level waste represent the vast majority of radioactive waste by volume from decommissioning activity at nuclear facilities around the world, but they are only a small fraction...
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4 November 2020
This volume is the 14th in the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Chemical Thermodynamics series. It is the second update of the critical reviews published, successively, in 1992 as Chemical Thermodyna...
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16 October 2020
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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1 October 2020
Many countries are dealing with challenges stemming from nuclear and radiological legacy sites. In particular, managing these sites in an open and transparent fashion while taking into account the vi...
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29 September 2020
Worldwide consensus exists within the international community that geological repositories can provide the necessary long-term safety and security to isolate long-lived radioactive waste from the hum...
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25 September 2020
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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25 September 2020
This report examines the predisposal phase of radioactive waste management programmes in NEA member countries for all types of waste from high-level to intermediate- and low-level waste, and spent fu...
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8 September 2020
Thermodynamic data are important for the modelling of the chemical processes in the engineering part on nuclear waste repository systems (the "near-field" region), and also to describe the effect of ...
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3 September 2020
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2 September 2020
by Wolfgang Hummel (Chairman), Giorgio Anderegg, Ignasi Puigdomenech, Linfeng Rao and Osamu Tochiyama
This volume is part of the series on Chemical Thermodynamics, published under the aegis of the OE...
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2 September 2020
by Paul L. Brown (Chairman), Enzo Curti and Bernd Grambow with the collaboration of Christian Ekberg
This volume is part of the series Chemical Thermodynamics, published under the aegis of the OECD N...
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2 September 2020
by Åke Olin (Chairman), Bengt Noläng, Lars-Olof Öhman, Evgeniy Osadchii and Erik Rosén
This volume is part of the series Chemical Thermodynamics, published under the aegis of the OECD Nuclear Energy ...
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2 September 2020
by Heinz Gamsjäger (Chairman), Jerzy Bugajski, Tamas Gajda, Robert Lemire and Wolfgang Preis
This volume is part of the series Chemical Thermodynamics, published under the aegis of the OECD Nuclear E...
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2 September 2020
by Robert Guillaumont (Chairman), Thomas Fanghänel, Jean Fuger, Ingmar Grenthe, Volker Neck, Donald A. Palmer and Malcolm H. Rand
This is Volume 5 in the Chemical Thermodynamics series. It is the upd...
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2 September 2020
by Joseph A. Rard (Chairman), Malcolm H. Rand, Giorgio Anderegg and Hans Wanner
This volume is part of the series Chemical Thermodynamics, published under the aegis of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency....
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2 September 2020
Table of Simple Integral Neutron Cross-Section Data from JEF-1, ENDF/B-V, ENDL-82, JENDL-2, KEDAK-4 and RCN-3; NEA Data Bank (July 1985).
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