The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in collaboration with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) hosted an international, multi-sector workshop on 14-18 December 2020 on safely regulating inn...

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The Fundamentals of International Nuclear Law (FINL) is a new online course developed by the NEA to provide a high-lev...

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) organised the Fifth International Workshop on Structural Materials for Innovative Nuclear Systems (SMINS-5). The workshop was held in Kyoto, Japan from 8 to 11 Ju...

The world demand for energy will experience unprecedented growth in the coming decades to support both population increase and to fuel exceptional economic development which is underway especially in...

As growing demand for energy has prompted ever-increasing use of fossil fuels, the resulting issues of energy security and climate change have in turn led to renewed interest in the use of hydrogen a...

The NEA Nuclear Science Committee (NSC) had organised two previous information exchange meetings on the nuclear production of hydrogen. The last of these meetings was held in October 2003, where deve...

The NEA Nuclear Science Committee (NSC) had previously organised three information exchange meetings to discuss scientific and strategic matters pertaining to the nuclear production of hydrogen. Earl...

^{The Barakah nuclear power plant. Photo: ENEC, United Arab Emirates.}

Description

The workshop on 'Modelling Employment in the Nuclear Power Sector' was held at NEA Headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux ...

^{Spent Nuclear Fuel Pool. Photo: Cogema.} 

Description

The NEA study on the “Adequacy of Funding Arrangements for Decommissioning and Radioactive Waste Management” is a part of the Programme of Work of...

FISPACT-II (currently at release version 4.0) 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....

Visit the following page to read more information about the NEA's International Radiological Protection School (IRPS).

The International School of Nuclear Law (ISNL), established in 2001 by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in cooperation with the University of Montpellier, has been designed to provide participant...

The NEA encourages governments to take advantage of the post‑COVID‑19 economic recovery to accelerate the energy transition towards meeting climate objectives.

• Post‑pandemic recovery plans to reconc...

It is time for action if countries around the world are to meet their decarbonisation and energy security policy goals. Nuclear energy can play a key role in meeting these objectives—if the cost of n...

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The workshop was held at the International Energy Agency (IEA) Headquarters in Paris on 10-11 December 2013, and gathered nearly 75 invited experts from 14 NEA m...

On 13 April 2018, the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) launched The Full Costs of Electricity Provision.

Electricity production, transport and consumption affect every facet of life. Market prices and pro...

The workshop was held at the NEA Headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux on 28-29 May 2013, and gathered nearly 30 invited experts from 10 NEA member countries (Belgium, Finland, France, Japan, Republic ...

1st day 

Overview

The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International Energy Agency (IEA) are hosting a free webinar on 31 August 2015 at 3:00 pm (CET) to disseminate the findings from the latest edition of...

As part of the work of the NEA Expert Group on "advanced reactor systems and future energy market needs”, a workshop was organised on 4 September 2019 with the objective of better understanding how t...

Under the Paris Agreement, countries agreed to aim for a reduction of their greenhouse gas emissions sufficient to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre‑indu...

It is clear that future nuclear systems will operate in an environment that will be very different from the electricity systems that accompanied the fast deployment of nuclear power plants in the 197...

^{Aerial view of the Doel nuclear power plant in Belgium. Photo: Alexandre Jacquemin/Creative Commons.}

The sheer size of nuclear projects might be a barrier in some markets where private investors are ...

^{Photo: Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL).}

Description

Nuclear power is capable of supplying large amounts of low‑carbon electricity and heat cost‑effectively while creating a large number of high...

The central aim of this workshop was to explore how insights from the social sciences and humanities can be used to inform the decision-making of practitioners in nuclear energy organisations. The wo...

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...

Application deadline: 31 March 2020

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) is organising the fourth international workshop on technology and components of accelerator driven systems (TCADS-4). The meeting will be held in Antwerp, Belgium...

A one-day course, sponsored by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) TDB project, on the topic of thermodynamic data collection and assessment is being offered in conjunction with Migration 2019 (Kyoto, Ja...

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 PENELOPE, with an ample perspective...

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...

Materials research is a field of growing relevance for innovative nuclear systems, such as Generation IV reactors, critical and sub-critical transmutation systems and fusion devices. For these differ...

The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) is organising the Second International Workshop on Structural Materials for Innovative Nuclear Systems (SMINS-2). The workshop was held in Daejeon, Republic of Korea, ...

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) organised the Third International Workshop on Structural Materials for Innovative Nuclear Systems (SMINS-3). The workshop was held in Idaho Falls, USA on 7-10 Oct...

Advanced techniques for fuel modelling have progressed considerably in the last decade in part aided due to progress in high-performance computational capability. At the engineering scale, this has r...

The Working Party on International Nuclear Data Evaluation Co-operation (WPEC) was established to promote the exchange of information on nuclear data evaluations, measurements, nuclear model calculat...

The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) is organising the Fourth International Workshop on Structural Materials for Innovative Nuclear Systems (SMINS-4) in cooperation with IAEA and, with the support of the ...

The annual meetings of the Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety and its five expert groups took place on 23-27 September 2019 at NEA/OECD headquarters in Paris.

The Ninth International Conference on Nuclear Criticality Safety (ICNC2011) was held on from 19-22 September 2011 in Edinburgh, Scotland. ICNC 2011 allowed specialists from around the globe to come t...

The continued evolution of fuel and materials technology, fuel performance, optimisation of operational limits, material ageing, failure limits, etc. requires experimental evidence obtained from test...

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Description

During the COVID‑19 crisis, nuclear power has continued to generate electricity reliably and around the clock, ensuring the continuous resilient oper...

^{Spent nuclear fuel repository site, Olkiluoto, Finland. Photo: Kallerna.}

Introduction

The Sixth International Conference on Geological Repositories (ICGR) will take place in Helsinki, Finland from ...

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The two-day international workshop on the Nuclear Innovation Roadmap (NI2050) was held at the OECD Headquarters in Paris on 7-8 July 2015. It brought together some of ...

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An International Seminar on Nuclear Law and the Protection of the Environment was held on 5-9 July 2004 at the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

^{Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant, Finland. Photo: Framatome.}

A workshop on Innovations in Water-cooled Reactor Technologies was held at NEA Headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux on 11-12 February 2015. ...

The NEA is organising the Sixteenth Information Exchange Meeting on Actinide and Fission Product Partitioning and Transmutation (IEMPT 16), from 27 June-1 July 2021. The meeting will be held in Russi...

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...

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

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

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

The 4^th edition of the annual NEA TDB course on the topic of thermodynamic data collection a...

Application period is closed 

Programme

The 2020 INLE programme will be conducted under the leadership of Paul Bowden, Honorary Professor of Law, The Nottingham Law School.

Comprehensive lectures w...

Session cancelled

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), in co-ordination with the University of Montpellier, has made the difficult decision to cancel this year’s International School of Nuclear Law ...

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), jointly with the World Health Organization (WHO), organised two interconnected web-based conferences to explore how the experience and lessons from non-nuclear c...

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), jointly with the World Health Organization (WHO), organised two interconnected web-based conferences to explore how the experience and lessons from non-nuclear c...

Nuclear issues are embedded with broader societal issues such as the environment, risk management, energy and health policies, and sustainability. As such, nuclear projects often generate considerabl...

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Fuel Cycle Safety (WGFCS) held an international workshop on Operational and Regulatory As...

Organised in collaboration with the Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear

The Third International Workshop on the Indemnification of Damage in the Event of a Nuclear Accident aims to explore the practical application of international nuclear liability instruments and the p...

The Fourth International Workshop on the Indemnification of Damage in the Event of a Nuclear Accident aims to explore the practical application of the international nuclear third party liability inst...

The Nuclear Law Committee (NLC) celebrated its 50th anniversary in February 2007. To mark the occasion, a colloquium was organised on 6 February 2007 in conjunction with the committee's regular meeti...

Technetium‑99m (Tc‑99m) is the most commonly used radioisotope in nuclear medicine diagnostic scans. It is essential for diagnostic scans of a broad range of body parts, and thus for accurate diagnos...

The Coronavirus (COVID‑19) pandemic has had significant impacts on the global economy and energy sector. It has also underlined the importance of electricity reliability and resilience during major d...

The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) organised the fourth international workshop on technology and components of accelerator driven systems (TCADS-4). The meeting was held in Antwerp, Belgium on 14-17 Oct...

The NEA Committee on Radiological Protection and Public Health (CRPPH) has actively supported the open process initiated by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) to revise it...

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Committee on Radiological Protection and Public Health (CRPPH) held the Seventh Regional Conference on the Evolution of the System of Radiological Protection (RP). The ...

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Key scientific challenges arising from ongoing radiobiological research have been identified recently. From this scientific base, the possible implications for radiological protection science are exp...

NEA Workshop on Optimisation: Rethinking the Art of Reasonable

13-15 January 2020
Lisbon, Portugal

Hosted by Instituto de Oncologia de Lisboa-Francisco Gentil (IPOLFG) and Instituto Superior Técnico C...

The Committee on Radiological Protection and Public Health (CRPPH) of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency invited governmental and technical support organisations involved in emergency management, and par...

The workshop provided an opportunity to discuss the major elements at stake for the structuring of a nuclear or radiological post-accident recovery management framework and to interact with Japanese ...

At its December 2012 meeting, the CRPPH Bureau suggested that the CRPPH could organise a webinar to bring together young and experienced professionals to exchange information for dealing with stakeho...

As with almost any large nuclear reactor accident, the risk of thyroid cancer caused not only by external exposure, but by exposure to iodine-131 (131I) is a key concern. Experience, and some epidemi...

This was an international forum for the exchange of information and experience among regulators, scientists and governmental and non-governmental organisations in radiological protection and public h...

The Committee on Radiological Protection and Public Health (CRPPH) of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency invites you to attend the second Science and Values in Radiological Protection workshop, to be hel...

Following the 2008 (Finland), 2009 (France) and 2012 (Japan) Science and Values in Radiological Protection workshops, which contributed to the integration of new scientific and technological developm...

non-nuclear radioactive waste produced through industrial, research and medical activities. Sources of such waste can include national laboratory and university research activities, used and lost ind...

Message from the workshop co-organisers:

Dear registered participants, Dear colleagues,

Our three organisations, BfS, OECD/NEA and WHO, have been monitoring closely the evolution of the COVID-19 out...

Four successful workshops on Science and Values in Radiological Protection Decision Making have thus far been held in 2008 (Finland), 2009 (France), 2012 (Japan) and 2015 (Russia). To continue advan...

Towards an All‑Hazards Approach to Emergency Preparedness and Response: Lessons Learnt from Non‑Nuclear Events, Friday, 12 January 2018 at 13:30-14:30 Paris time

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) organized side events at COP21 to offer an opportunity to learn more about the contribution of nuclear energy to...

One of the many important lessons learnt about nuclear safety over the years has been that human aspects of nuclear safety are as important as any technical issue that may arise in the course of nucl...

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) convened a workshop on the Security of Supply of Medical Radioisotopes in Paris on 29-30 January 2009. The workshop was initiated at the request of the Government...

The Experience and Technology of Russia, Ukraine and Other Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Countries on Remediation and Restoration of Environments

On 3-4 February 2012, the Japanese governm...

Nuclear safety regulators, government officials, nuclear facility operators, and other nuclear energy actors have roles and responsibilities in sharing scientific, technical or regulatory information...

The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Fuel Cycle Safety (WGFCS) held an international workshop on Developments in Fuel Cycle Facilit...

The July 2006 Forsmark-1 event identified a number of design deficiencies related to electrical power supply to systems and components important to safety in nuclear power plants. The CSNI establishe...

Hosted by the French Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) and the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)

Objectives

Working under the mandate of the CSNI, the objective of the WGFCS i...

The European Technical Centre of the Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) is pleased to organize, in collaboration with and the support of Electricité de France (EDF), the 2020 ISOE Int...

The IAEA Technical Centre of the Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE), in collaboration with the Nuclear and Radiation Safety Centre, Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China organi...

The Asian Technical Center (ATC) of the Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) was pleased to organize the 2018 International ALARA Symposium on occupational exposure management at nuclea...

Background

The Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) with its participating utilities and regulatory authorities, is a core group of experts for exchanging experience in developing safe,...

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Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis methods provide advanced techniques for code and data validation including the identification of appropriate experiments, detailed quantification of bias and bias...

One of the unique features of the SCALE code system is the flexibility of assembling different SCALE codes or sequences to solve complex problems. Transportation and storage of spent fuel require a c...

Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis methods provide advanced techniques for code and data validation including the identification of appropriate experiments, detailed quantification of bias and bias...

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The Working Party on International Nuclear Data Evaluation Co-operation (WPEC) was established to promote the exchange of information on nuclear data evaluations, measurements, nuclear model calculat...

The Working Party on International Nuclear Data Evaluation Co-operation (WPEC) was established to promote the exchange of information on nuclear data evaluations, measurements, nuclear model calculat...

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The Working Party on International Nuclear Data Evaluation Co-operation (WPEC) was established to promote the exchange of information on nuclear data evaluations, measurements, nuclear model calculat...