The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Expert Group on Costing for Decommissioning of Nuclear Installations and Legacy Management (EGCDL) addresses costing issues as an expert group of the NEA Working Party...

The NEA and METI International Workshop on Joint Utilisation of Underground Research Laboratories (URLs) for R&D Projects was organised in the JAEA Horonobe International Communication House (Horonob...

The Nuclear Energy Agency’s (NEA) Integration Group for the Safety Case (IGSC) and its predecessor, the Performance Assessment Advisory Group (PAAG), have carried out activities related to the compil...

The Serpent-2 software is a three-dimensional continuous-energy neutron and photon transport code, developed at the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) (Leppänen, 2015), and is one of the most...

The NEA Committee on Radiological Protection and Public Health (CRPPH) assists NEA member countries in identifying critical and emerging issues in radiological protection, analysing their possible im...

The NEA has a long tradition of promoting co-operation and assistance among its member countries on preparedness for nuclear and radiological emergencies. This is implemented through its Committee on...

At the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), the importance of fuel modelling and its improvement through development of phenomenological representations has been recognised and multiple technical groups rela...

Under the auspices of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Nuclear Science Committee (NSC), the Working Party on Scientific Issues of Reactor Systems (WPRS) has been established to study reactor physics, ...

Small modular reactor (SMR) technologies are gaining interest as countries seek to reduce carbon emissions while maintaining energy security. For these new technologies to be deployed in a timely man...

Rising international interest in increasing fuel burnup limits and fuel cycle length may require fuel enrichment above 5% and high reactivity/high suppression core designs. Based on this interest in ...