The event took place on 11–15 November 2024.
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22 November 2024
NEA delegation travelled to Romania to discuss ongoing and future areas of co-operation.
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21 November 2024
NEA released the International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) Handbook which contains criticality safety benchmark specifications
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21 November 2024
The workshop was co-organised by the US Department of Energy and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.
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20 November 2024
Published every year, the NEA Annual Report includes an overview of NEA's activities and publications produced during the year, as well as the latest developments in nuclear energy sector around the ...
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20 November 2024
Publié chaque année, le Rapport annuel de l’AEN présente un aperçu des activités et publications de l’AEN pour une année donnée, ainsi que les derniers développements du secteur de l’énergie nucléair...
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20 November 2024
Fluoride salt-cooled high-temperature reactors (FHRs), cooled with liquid (molten) salt, fueled with TRISO-based fuel are a potential molten salt reactor (MSR) design.
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19 November 2024
NEA held the third edition of the RCTC on 28-31 October 2024. The course was hosted by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) in Ottawa, Canada and brought together 60 students and lecturers f...
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18 November 2024
Member met for the 148th session of the Steering Committee for Nuclear Energy.
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18 November 2024
NEA News is the professional journal of the NEA. It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nuclear safety and regulatio...
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16 November 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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14 November 2024
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14 November 2024
The Convention on Assistance sets up a framework for states parties to co-operate amongst themselves and with the International Atomic Energy Agency to facilitate prompt assistance in the event of ...
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13 November 2024
The Early Notification Convention establishes a notification system for nuclear accidents that have the potential for an international transboundary release of radioactive material that could be of...
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13 November 2024
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13 November 2024
The CPPNM establishes measures related to the physical protection of nuclear material used for peaceful purposes during transport, criminalisation of offenses relating to nuclear material and inter...
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13 November 2024
The objective of the Amendment to the CPPNM is to achieve and maintain worldwide effective physical protection of nuclear material and of nuclear facilities used for peaceful purposes; to prevent a...
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13 November 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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13 November 2024
An NEA delegation led by Director-General William D. Magwood, IV, travelled to Budapest to discuss the latest developments in the Hungarian energy sector.
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13 November 2024
The OECD NEA organised the Safety Case Symposium 2024 in Budapest, Hungary, from 8-11 October. Nearly 200 experts gathered to discuss the role of safety cases in managing radioactive waste.
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13 November 2024
The International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) Handbook contains criticality safety benchmark specifications that have been derived from experiments that were performed at...
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12 November 2024
The primary purpose of the International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) is to compile critical and subcritical benchmark experiment data into a standardised format that allo...
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12 November 2024
Members of the NEA joint project Thermodynamics of Advanced Fuels - International Database (TAF-ID) met on 23-25 October 2024.
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8 November 2024
The OECD NEA Working Party on Nuclear Emergency Matters (WPNEM) held its 2024 annual meeting from 15 to 17 October in London, United Kingdom. The event brought together approximately 50 emergency pre...
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7 November 2024
Nuclear legislation: Germany
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30 October 2024
Emergency preparedness programmes around the world are designed to protect people from the health effects arising from radiological releases. The science behind these programmes is both well known an...
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23 October 2024
National legislation: Finland
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23 October 2024
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18 October 2024
Nuclear legislation: Slovenia
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17 October 2024
National legislation: United Kingdom
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17 October 2024
The Joint Protocol acts as a bridge between the Paris and Vienna Conventions, effectively extending the benefits provided by one convention to victims in countries that have joined the other conven...
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17 October 2024
The second edition will take place in Paris, France.
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16 October 2024
TCOFF-2 members met to discus the ongoing activities.
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16 October 2024
The Joint Convention is an incentive convention that aims to, inter alia, achieve and a high level of safety worldwide in spent fuel and radioactive waste management, through the enhancement of nat...
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14 October 2024
The Terrorist Financing Convention's objective is to enhance international co-operation among states in devising and adopting effective measures for the prevention of the financing of terrorism, as...
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14 October 2024
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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14 October 2024
The Espoo Convention sets out the obligations of parties to assess the environmental impact of certain activities at an early stage of planning and lays down general obligations of states to notify...
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14 October 2024
The Aarhus Convention obliges states and grants the public rights in three areas of the convention: access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environme...
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14 October 2024
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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11 October 2024
The Brussels Supplementary Convention establishes a scheme to provide compensation supplementary to that required by the Paris Convention. The BSC is open only to contracting parties to the Paris C...
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11 October 2024
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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11 October 2024
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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11 October 2024
The CSC provides for a global liability and compensation scheme that may supplement that called for under the Paris Convention, the Vienna Convention or Annex state legislation as defined by the CS...
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11 October 2024
Members of the FIDES-II Joint Project meet in Paris to receive updates on the nine ongoing irradiation experiments and consider what’s next.
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11 October 2024
CRIEPI and NEA renewed the Memorandum of Understanding.
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11 October 2024
A simplified demonstration for nuclear criticality safety application.
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9 October 2024
Project members gathered at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois.
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9 October 2024
Nuclear legislation: Spain
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8 October 2024
NEA workshop gathers participants to Toronto, Canada.
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7 October 2024
The topic was discussed at the workshop organised by the NEA Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC).
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7 October 2024
