Increasing the contribution of nuclear energy to global production of electricity provides a practical pathway toward reaching ambitious net zero carbon emission targets. The value of nuclear energy ...

The NEA Expert Group on the Physics of Reactor Systems (EGPRS) organised a one-day workshop to foster exchanges among radiation transport simulation developers. The workshop aimed to facilitate excha...

The 12th International Conference on Nuclear Criticality Safety (ICNC) was held in Sendai, Japan, on 1-6 October 2023. Twenty years after the last conference in Japan, which was held in Tokai-mura as...

Country-specific Safety Culture Forum (CSSCF) Japan was initiated in late 2022, with the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO), the Federation of Electric Power C...

SATIF-15 Workshop participants. Photo: courtesy of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB)

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In the Annotated Glossary of Key Terms of the Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC), “transparency” is defined as an important way to achieve confidence and trust. This applies for a repository proje...

Context of the workshop

Since its inception, the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has served as a flexible and powerful platform for multinational research co-operation, particularly in areas related to n...

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...

Female scientists and engineers pioneered the nuclear and radiological fields, with leaders and innovators such as Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Lise Meitner, among many others, establishing the foundat...