The Working Group on Fuel Cycle Safety (WGFCS), which is part of the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installation (CSNI) of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), held an international workshop on devel...
Any country wishing to join the NEST Framework must become a signatory of the NEST Framework Agreement, as stated in article 11(a) of the agreement.
International benchmark of solvent extraction codes and process modelling applied to hydro-processes focuses on the modelling of PUREX (TBP-based extractions) systems with uranium and nitric acid as ...
Led by the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), the TCOFF-II initiative aims to enhance expertise and knowledge dissemination in thermodynamics modelling applied to materia...
Led by the University of Siena in Italy, the TRAINS initiative aims to enhance training and knowledge dissemination in radiological and nuclear security.
The Joint Protocol acts as a bridge between the Paris and Vienna Conventions, effectively extending the benefits provided by one convention to victims in countries that have joined the other conven...
The 1997 Vienna Protocol improves the original regime by requiring that more money be made available to compensate more victims for a broad range of damages.
The NEST Framework comprises several countries and organisations who wish to co-operate through international exchanges and activities to strengthen nuclear-related technology education and training ...
The NEST HYMERES project addresses safety-relevant phenomena in containments during accidents. It offers hands-on training opportunities during the experimental test campaigns carried at the PSI PAND...
The proposed NEST project BEAST addresses postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and young professionals, who intend to work in the field of Nuclear Decommissioning and Waste Management. The...
The Expert Group on Reactor Coolants/Components Technology (EGCoCoT), operating under the auspices of the Working Party on Scientific Issues of Advanced Fuel Cycles (WPFC), launched an activity to pr...
This project aims to integrate SMR research projects from the individual participant organisation countries into a broader and more impactful programme. It will include elements of technology assessm...
A list of NEST events, conferences, workshops and summer schools organised in the context of ongoing NEST projects.
The NEA launched the Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework in partnership with its member countries to help address important gaps in nuclear skills capacity building, knowledge t...
The Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS) studies the reactor physics, fuel performance, and radiation transport and shielding in present and future nu...
Panda facility under construction. Photo courtesy of the Paul Scherrer Institute
The main objective of the first phase of the Hydrogen Mitigation Experiments fo...
The main decision body of the NEST Framework is the Management Board which includes one member and one alternate from each NEST Country.
This NEST project addresses the main issues of i‑graphite management, including characterisation, decontamination and disposal.