NEA Monthly News Bulletin – June 2020
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4 June 2020
NEA Monthly News Bulletin – April 2020
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8 April 2020
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6 February 2020
NEA Monthly News Bulletin – January 2020
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3 January 2020
Performance assessment of repository concepts for the geological disposal of long-lived radioactive waste relies on the availability of thermodynamic data for many radionuclides and other elements un...
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29 August 2002
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
In recent years the socio-political environment of radioactive waste management (RWM) has been changing in a significant way. Stakeholder dialogue has become a leading principle. How have RWM organis...
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12 December 2007
Ce rapport de synthèse sur le Financement du démantèlement : éthique, mise en œuvre, incertitudes a été rédigé en s’appuyant sur la littérature récente et sur les informations présentées lors des réu...
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28 August 2007
Significant numbers of nuclear facilities will need to be decommissioned in the coming decades. In this context, NEA member countries are placing increasing emphasis on the involvement of stakeholder...
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14 June 2007
En radioprotection, on entend par « libération » la décision prise par l'autorité compétente de lever tous les contrôles réglementaires appliqués jusqu'alors aux matériaux et bâtiments radioactifs. C...
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31 December 2009
The radiological concept of clearance can be defined as the release of radioactive materials or buildings from any further regulatory control applied for radiological protection purposes by the compe...
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19 November 2008
L’enlèvement des matières irradiées et plus particulièrement du combustible à l'issue de l'arrêt définitif d'une installation élimine la source principale de risque radiologique, le risque de critici...
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25 September 2008
The present volume is a reprint of the 1995 edition of Chemical Thermodynamics of Americium.
by Robert J. Silva (Chairman), Giovanni Bidoglio, Malcolm H. Rand, Piotr B. Robouch, Hans Wanner and Ign...
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2 June 2004
The present volume is a reprint of the 1992 edition of Chemical Thermodynamics of Uranium.
by Ingmar Grenthe (Chairman), Jean Fuger, Rudy J. M. Konings, Robert J. Lemire, Anthony B. Muller, Chinh N...
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2 June 2004
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
by Robert J. Lemire (Chairman), Jean Fuger, Heino Nitsche, Paul Potter, Malcolm H. Rand, Jan Rydberg, Kastriot Spahiu, James C. Sullivan, William J. Ullman, Pierre Vitorge and Hans Wanner
This volume...
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6 June 2001
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 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 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 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 Jordi Bruno (Chairman), Dirk Bosbach, Dmitrii Kulik and Alexandra Navrotsky
This volume provides a state-of-the-art report on the modelling of aqueous-solid solution systems by the combined use of...
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25 July 2007
by Heinz Gamsjäger (Chairman), Tamás Gajda, James Sangster, Surendra K. Saxena, and Wolfgang Voigt
This volume is the 12th in the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Chemical Thermodynamics series. It i...
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31 December 2013
by Robert J. Lemire (Chairman), Urs Berner, Claude Musikas, Donald A. Palmer, Peter Taylor and Osamu Tochiyama
This volume is the 13a in the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Chemical Thermodynamics s...
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13 December 2013
The removal of fuel from a permanently shutdown nuclear facility eliminates the major source of radiological hazard, a nuclear criticality. Combined with the cessation of operations at high temperatu...
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25 September 2008
Considerable international experience gained over the last 20 years demonstrates that nuclear facilities can be safely dismantled and decommissioned once a decision is made to cease operations and pe...
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23 October 2009
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2 September 2020
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2 September 2020
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2 September 2020
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2 September 2020
The competitiveness of nuclear power plants depends largely on their capital costs that represent some 60 per cent of their total generation costs. Reviewing and analysing ways and means to reduce ca...
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1 January 2000
Une des préoccupations majeures exprimée dans la production d'éléctricité d'origine nucléaire est que le démantèlement (déconstruction à un niveau donné) d'installations en fine de vie représente un ...
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14 October 2005
Radioactive waste is associated with all phases of the nuclear fuel cycle as well as the use of radioactive materials in medicine, research and industry. For the most hazardous and long-lived waste, ...
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24 September 2010
Experience from decommissioning projects suggests that the decommissioning of nuclear power plants could be made easier if this aspect received greater consideration at the design stage and during op...
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7 June 2010
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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4 April 2017
This 7th Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) workshop focused on the territorial implementation of France’s high-level and long-lived intermediate-level waste management programme. Sessions address...
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12 April 2010
This paper provides in a concise form an overview of the development of regulation and guidance at both national and international levels, on international and multi-national initiatives for developi...
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24 February 2010
A central safety function of radioactive waste disposal repositories is the prevention or sufficient retardation of radionuclide migration to the biosphere. Performance assessment exercises in variou...
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4 May 2012
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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26 August 2020
Communication has a specific role to play in the development of deep geological repositories. Building trust with the stakeholders involved in this process, particularly within the local community, i...
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20 February 2017
Large quantities of materials arising from the decommissioning of nuclear facilities are non-radioactive per se. An additional significant share of materials is of very low-level or low-level radioac...
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16 August 2017
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1 December 2015
Nuclear sites around the world are being decommissioned and remedial actions are being undertaken to enable sites, or parts of sites, to be reused. Although such activities are relatively straightfor...
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23 May 2016
- Electricity security is an essential public need, at the same level as food security and access to health care.
- Nuclear energy is a key contributor to electricity security and already contributes po...
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1 June 2020
- Governments should incentivise investments in resilient low-carbon energy infrastructure, such as nuclear energy, in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Proper policy and market frameworks to in...
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1 June 2020
- The post-COVID-19 economic recovery is a perfect opportunity to create jobs and economic development while continuing to move ahead with the energy transition.
- Investing in nuclear energy creates a ...
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1 June 2020
- As the current nuclear workforce ages, concerns are arising over skills requirements and transferring knowledge to the new generation of experts and staff. A key issue is the loss of tacit knowledge...
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7 November 2019
This NEA Policy Brief provides a concise outline of the current outlook for final disposal of radioactive waste in NEA member countries. It describes the challenges, context, stakeholders and potenti...
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30 July 2020
The design and implementation activities of the Integration Group for the Safety Case (IGSC) focus on how to achieve safety in practice.
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3 July 2020
The Scientific Basis activities of the Integration Group for the Safety Case (IGSC) examine important scientific and technical issues for the development and integration of safety cases.
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30 June 2020
Radioactive waste repositories are designed to be intrinsically safe in that they are not dependent on the presence or intervention of humans. In response to this challenge, the Nuclear Energy Agency...
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24 September 2019