The conferences and symposia listed below are organised by national or international bodies for which NEA co-sponsorship or co-operation has been granted.
| 10‑13 February | ENS PIME 2008 (Public Information Materials Exchange) | |
| Organiser | European Nuclear Society (ENS) | |
| Where | Prague, Czech Republic | |
| 24‑28 February | Waste Management 2008 | |
| Organiser | WMSymposia Inc. | |
| Where | Phoenix, Arizona, USA | |
| 8‑9 April | ENA 2008 – European Nuclear Assembly | |
| Organiser | FORATOM | |
| Where | Brussels, Belgium | |
| 13‑17 April | 11th International Conference on Radiation Shielding (ICRS‑11) and Radiation Protection and Shielding Topical (RPS‑2008) | |
| Organiser | Georgia Institute of Technology – Nuclear Research Center | |
| Where | Callaway Gardens, Georgia, USA | |
| 18‑22 May | NESTet 2008 – Nuclear Engineering Science and Technology - Education and Training | |
| Organiser | European Nuclear Society (ENS) | |
| Where | Budapest, Hungary | |
| 19-23 May | International Conference 'ATALANTE 2008' - Nuclear Fuel Cycle for a Sustainable Future | |
| Organiser | French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) | |
| Where | Montpellier, France | |
| 25‑30 May | 13th International Symposium on Reactor Dosimetry | |
| Where | Akersloot, Netherlands | |
| 26‑30 May | Women in Nuclear Global 2008 Annual Meeting – Nuclear Revival: Maintaining Key Comptencies | |
| Organiser | Women in Nuclear France, in co-operation with the Société française d'énergie nucléaire | |
| Where | Marseille, France | |
| 15‑20 June | International Conference on Radioecology and Environmental Radioactivity | |
| Organiser | Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority (NRPA) and the Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire (IRSN) | |
| Where | Bergen, Norway | |
| 25‑27 June | ISOE European ALARA Symposium on Occupational Exposure Management at Nuclear Facilities | |
| Organiser | Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) and the ISOE North American Technical Centre | |
| Where | Turku, Finland | |
| 7‑11 September | PSA 2008 - ANS International Topical Meeting on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis | |
| Organiser | American Nuclear Society (ANS) | |
| Where | Knoxville, Tennessee, USA | |
| 14‑19 September | PHYSOR‑2008 – International Conference on the Physics of Reactors | |
| Organiser | Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Swiss Nuclear Society (SGK/SOSIN/SNS) | |
| Where | Interlaken, Switzerland | |
| 16‑18 September | Fault Zones: Structure, Geomechanics and Fluid Flow | |
| Organiser | The Geological Society of Britain | |
| Where | London, UK | |
| 20‑26 September | IYNC 2008 – International Youth Nuclear Congress | |
| Organiser | Swiss Young Generation/International Youth Nuclear Congress | |
| Where | Interlaken, Switzerland | |
| 28 September‑2 October | Decommissioning Challenges: An Industrial Reality? | |
| Organiser | Société française d'énergie nucléaire (SFEN) | |
| Where | Avignon, France | |
| 1‑3 October | TOPSAFE 2008 – International Topical Meeting on Safety of Nuclear Installations | |
| Organiser | Croatian Nuclear Society | |
| Where | Dubrovnik, Croatia | |
| 19‑23 October | Water Reactor Fuel Performance Meeting 2008 | |
| Organiser | Korean Nuclear Society | |
| Where | Seoul, Republic of Korea | |
| 19‑24 October | IRPA 12 – 12th International Congress of the International Radiation Protection Association | |
| Organiser | Argentine Radiation Protection Society | |
| Where | Buenos Aires, Argentina | |
| 21‑24 October | Tenth Information Exchange Meeting on Actinide and Fission Product Partitioning and Transmutation | |
| Organiser | OECD Nuclear Energy Agency | |
| Where | Tokai-mura, Japan | |
| 13‑14 November | 2008 International ISOE ALARA Symposium | |
| Organiser | ISOE Technical Centres | |
| Where | Tsuruga, Japan | |
| 10-12 November | LOWRAD 2008 - Seventh International Meeting on the Effects of Low Doses of Radiation in Biological Systems: New Perspectives on Human Exposure | |
| Organiser | Portugese Nuclear and Technological Institute (ITN) | |
| Where | Lisbon, Portugal | |