Over the past two decades, the safety case has become a powerful and essential tool to support decision making at every stage of a geological disposal programme. Now, an increasing number of national...

The opening session of the Sixth International Conference on Geological Repositories (ICGR-6) in Helsinki, Finland. Photo: Krystal Kenney

There is consensus within the international scientific commun...

Deadline for submission of abstracts       30 June 2023    

Notification of accepted contributions      17 July 2023

Deadline for attendance registration          27 Oct 2023      

Deadline for presentation submissions 27 Oct 2...

The NEA is organising the 16^th Information Exchange Meeting on Actinide and Fission Product Partitioning and Transmutation (16IEMPT) on 24-27 October 2023. The meeting will be held at the NEA offices...

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

The seventh edition of the annual NEA Thermochemical Database (TDB) Project course on the topic of thermodynamic data collection and assessment will take place as a one-day, in-person event on 23 Sep...

In response to the technical and scientific needs emerged recently in this area, the Working Group of External Events (WGEV) and the Working Group on Risk Assessment (WGRISK) initiated a joint task e...

Optimisation has always been a fundamental concept in decision making for all parts of society, but the way decisions are taken has changed in recent years. Societal considerations towards nuclear-re...

The application period for the 2023 session is now closed.

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

The 2023 edition of the IRPS is scheduled to take place in person in Stockholm, Sweden fr...

The NEA in collaboration with the Japanese Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) will host an international workshop on 28-29 June 2023 on the topic of Ageing management considerations in mechanical cod...

In the early decades of nuclear reactor development, many countries built and operated zero-power facilities in which many different critical arrangements of materials were studied. These flexible ex...

The NEA thermal hydraulic code validation benchmark for high temperature gas-cooled reactors using HTTF data (HTGR T/H), supervised by the Expert Group on Reactor Core Thermal-Hydraulics and Mechanic...

Registrations are now closed.

The International workshop on disruptive technologies for nuclear safety applications is one of the most significant digital innovation events of the year. This two-day ...

The NEA has organised the first International School on Simulation of Nuclear Reactor Systems (SINUS) on the topic of Reactor single- and multi-physics simulations based on Light Water Reactor (LWR) ...

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...

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...

Nuclear innovation in small modular reactors (SMRs) has the potential to address multiple energy policy priorities around the world, from decarbonising electricity and deep decarbonisation of hard-to...

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...

Under the guidance of the Nuclear Science Committee (NSC), the Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS) studies the reactor physics, fuel performance, an...

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

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...

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?”

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...

Phase I - “How to better formulate problems for holistic, inclusive and sustainable decision making?”

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...

- 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 ...

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This event has now finished. Speaker presentations are available for download using the links in the 'Download' section.

NEA article reporting on this workshop:

Examining new technolog...

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...

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...

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

The conference will provide a forum for ministers, policymakers, senior officials and experts to engage in high-level dialogue on the role of nuclear energy in the transition to clean energy sources,...

Radioactive waste is produced in all phases of the nuclear fuel cycle and from the use of radioactive materials in industrial, medical, defence and research applications. Disposal in engineered repos...

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...

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...

The application period for the 2022 session is closed.

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

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, ...

This course is addressed to researchers in Radiation Physics and its applications. The main objective is to provide the participants with a detailed description of the new, 2020, version of PENELOPE,...

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 ...

FISPACT-II (currently at release version 5.0) is an enhanced multi-physics platform providing a wide variety of advanced simulation methods and employing the most up to date (TENDL-2019, ENDF/B-VIII....

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 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...

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...

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...

^{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...

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...

Under the oversight of the Nuclear Development Committee (NDC), the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) continues to work on collecting and analysing the latest technical evidence and industrial experience t...

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...

Under the guidance of the  Nuclear Science Committee (NSC) , the Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS) studies the reactor physics, fuel performance, ...

Application period is closed

The 2022 Fundamentals of International Nuclear Law (FINL) has been designed by the NEA to provide a high-level, introductory review of the central aspects of internationa...

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 ...

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...

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

The International Conference A Decade of Progress After Fukushima-Daiichi: Building on Lessons
Learned to Further Strengthen Nuclear Safety focused on:

1. Looking back on the lessons learned, experienc...

The purpose of the event is to share experiences in the management of radioactive waste, with the aim of increasing the visibility of progress, good practice and effective solutions.

FISPACT-II (currently at release version 5.0) is an enhanced multi-physics platform providing a wide variety of advanced simulation methods and employing the most up-to-date, TENDL-2017, ENDF/B-VIII....

8 October 2021, 14:00 CET

The NEA Regulators' Forum (RF) was established in 2001 to support the work of member countries in the regulation of the safety of radioactive waste management, decommissioni...

7 October 2021, 14:00-16:30 CEST

Reducing industrial carbon emissions is one of the most difficult challenges on the path to net zero by 2050, due to the magnitude of greenhouse gas emissions from th...