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 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...

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...

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...

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...

The application period for the ISNL 2021 session is now closed

More information about the ISNL 2022 session will be available in the fall

Due to the continuing worldwide public health situation, the...

Nuclear power remains the largest source of low-carbon electricity in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. Supported by robust technical evidence and growing opera...

The 2021 SMR Prize Competition – a virtual event being held from 7 June to 19 August 2021– will bring together an international cohort of students who will engage weekly to design, develop and ultima...

Theme: The important role of early career nuclear graduates in fighting climate change

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has interrupted many aspects of everyday life, including the opportunity for...

By drawing on the lessons learnt from first-of-a-kind Generation III projects, the recent NEA study Unlocking Reductions in the Construction Costs of Nuclear: A Practical Guide for Stakeholders ident...

In the aftermath of the Fukushima accident, the nuclear community has been re-evaluating seismic hazard at nuclear facilities worldwide. One of the major challenges in this effort is quantifying and ...

This workshop aimed to facilitate a broad discussion of the challenges around the competency of regulators in the areas of radioactive waste management, decommissioning and legacy management. In Janu...

Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology
(NEST) Framework Fellows
Larissa Shasko and Stephen King

Thursday, 8 April 2021 at 15:30-16:30 Paris time

Nuclear skills and education are an increasingly i...