The annual Benchmark Workshop of the Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems was hosted by CEA Cadarache in Aix-en-Provence. During the week of 30 May to 3 June...

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...

The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) held an online event to launch its new report Building a Framework for Post Nuclear Accident Recovery Preparedness: National-Level Guidance.

This report was produced b...

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...

Phase III - “How to transparently implement and post-assess decisions for their holism, inclusiveness and sustainability?”

Registration deadline: 2 February 2023.

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 ...

Due to circumstances imposed by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this year's event will take place online.

The 6^th edition of the annual NEA TDB course on the topic of thermodynamic data collection a...

Due to circumstances imposed by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this year's event will take place online.

The 5^th edition of the annual NEA TDB course on the topic of thermodynamic data collection a...

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), Idaho National Laboratory, and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are co-organising the Sixth International Workshop on Structural Materials for Innovativ...

^{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...

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?”

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

- Registration for the 2022 course is closed -

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 ...

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 differ...

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...

Attaining net zero carbon emissions by 2050 will require financing and developing significant capacity of new nuclear power generation in the coming years and decades. To facilitate this process, the...

In 2021, the NEA and IFNEC organised a series of joint webinars on a number of conceptual and practical issues pertaining to nuclear new build financing. These events aimed to advance ongoing policy ...

The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) invited policy makers, regulators, practitioners and researchers to participate in an online event to launch its newly issued report Regulatory Implementation of the E...

This workshop is organised by the NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) and hosted by the Nuclear and Radioactive Waste Agency (ANDR), Romania.

At the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle, ...

Since its inception, the NEA has provided a highly flexible and powerful platform for multinational research co-operation, particularly in areas related to providing understanding and insights needed...

This event is part of the OECD COP26 Virtual Pavilion. It is available on replay.

In Meeting Climate Change Targets: The Role of Nuclear Energy, the NEA explores the role of nuclear technologies and their applications toward achieving the globally recognised goal of Net Zero. Gov...

Uranium is the primary source of fuel for nuclear power plants, which provides large-scale low-carbon baseload electricity for more than 30 countries around the world and is the world’s second larges...

^{Figure 1: Generation IV International Forum [gen-4.org]}

The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) organised an international workshop on the implementation of radioactive w...

The Symposium is free of charge for all participants and is scheduled to take place in person at the ONR’s offices near Liverpool in the United Kingdom. 

Key Dates

The application period for the 2022 session is closed.

Information about the 2023 programme will be available in the fall.

The application period for the 2023 session is now open.

The application period closes on 31 March 2023.

Application Form 

Applications for the fourth session of the International Radiological Protection School (IRPS) are now closed.

Although feedback was generally positive after holding the IRPS entirely online in 2021 ...