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Nuclear legislation: Iceland
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The Technical Review Groups for both projects met at the NEA headquarters on 3-7 April 2023.
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24 April 2023
This page contains a list of the International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) participants and evaluations if any.
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10 November 2022
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29 August 2023
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7 December 2022
The Integration Group for the Safety Case (IGSC) has been organising a series of symposia every five years focusing on the development of a competent and robust safety case since 2007, in co‑operatio...
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21 November 2023
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30 November 2023
NEA/NSC/R(2022)2
Under the guidance of the NEA Nuclear Science Committee (NSC), the Expert Group on Improvement of Integral Experiments Data for Minor Actinide Management (EGIEMAM-II) was established to recommend nec...
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4 March 2024
“Improving Cross-disciplinary and Transversal Skills for the Severe Accidents Community” approved by NEST Management Board.
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18 December 2023
In capacity building and gender balance, a key goal is to attract and retain more women in the technology and science fields by promoting education and development in those areas.
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8 June 2023
On 11-12 October 2023, the NEA Task Group on Improving the Gender Balance in the Nuclear Sector (GB-TG) met in Paris to discuss ongoing work and future activities.
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24 November 2023
8 March 2023
13:30-15:00 CET, Online
Female scientists and engineers pioneered the nuclear and radiological fields, with leaders and innovators such as Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Lise Meitner, among many others, establishing the foundat...
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10 February 2023
The NEA hosted the 32nd meeting of the ISOE Management Board.
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18 January 2023
NEA Expert Group on the Application of Robotics and Remote Systems in the Nuclear Back-end (EGRRS) discusses how to improve the regulatory framework for robotic and remote systems applications.
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14 December 2021
Thermodynamic databases and accident prevention
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24 February 2023
TCOFF-2 members discuss future activities.
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10 July 2023
Pierre Strohl, former Deputy Director-General of the NEA, has passed away.
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30 December 2022
This structural materials Joint Experimental Program (JEEP) is aimed at developing the capability to perform a variety of in-core mechanical testing measurements.
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13 January 2023
The INCA experiments will provide comparative data on the irradiation induced creep of current Zr alloys and Cr coated samples
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15 November 2023
Nuclear legislation: India
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19 September 2023
The INEX-5 exercises series were developed in 2013-2014 and were conducted between September 2015 and June 2016. The preliminary analysis of the INEX-5 evaluation questionnaires, as well as details o...
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22 June 2022
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22 June 2022
The Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) Project provides a forum for radiological protection (RP) professionals from nuclear electricity utilities and national regulatory authorities w...
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21 February 2024
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9 May 2023
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8 February 2024
Innovations in nuclear safety thermal-hydraulics
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26 June 2023
29 November 2022 -
1 December 2022
NEA premises, France
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This event has now finished. Speaker presentations are available for download using the links in the 'Download' section.
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Examining new technolog...
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Ahmad Sleiman, a PhD student in neurotoxicology at IRSN, talks about his NEST Framework Fellowship.
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10 October 2023
A chat with Ethan Robert Kirkby, NEST Fellow
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22 April 2022
Insights from the NEST Framework: A chat with Vera Verkhoturova, Project Leader of the NEST i‑graphite Radioactive Waste Management project
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17 February 2022
The Integration Group for the Safety Case (IGSC) provides advice to the Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) on major and emerging issues to facilitate the development of waste management st...
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17 March 2022
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15 March 2024
Paris, France
Photo credit: Joel A. Kulesza, Roger Lee Martz, LANL LA-UR-17-23854
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26 January 2024
NEA workshop addresses the importance of a secure supply chain of medical radioisotopes to save lives.
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30 November 2023
Scheme showing the technical scope of NEA ICDE project activities, NEA
Common-cause failure (CCF) events can significantly affect the availability of safety systems of nuclear power plants. In recog...
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30 November 2022
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Avignon, France
Long-term decommissioning programmes of nuclear facilities (NPPs, fuel cycle plants, research facilities, etc.) are major stakes for the nuclear industry, and innovation initiatives are needed.
This ...
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13 March 2024
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Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
The International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2023) is a part of a series of topical meetings organised by the Mathematics and ...
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27 May 2021
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Sendai International Center, Miyagi, Japan
The 12th International Conference on Nuclear Criticality Safety (ICNC) was held in Sendai, Japan, on 1-6 October 2023. Twenty years after the last conference in Japan, which was held in Tokai-mura as...
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13 December 2022
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29 July 2022
Sacramento, United States
The conference serves as the main forum for the international community of experimentalists, theorists, evaluators and users of nuclear data to come together to review progress and identify outstandi...
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31 January 2022
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19 May 2023
Vienna, Austria
Purpose and objectives
The purpose of the event is to discuss achievements, challenges and lessons learnt in the decommissioning of nuclear facilities, highlighting current priority needs and sharing...
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10 January 2023
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10 January 2023
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9 September 2022
Geneva, Switzerland
The conference offers an opportunity to stakeholders involved in the implementation, management and development of occupational radiation protection policies to share and discuss experiences.
The con...
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9 November 2021
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20 May 2022
Pittsburgh, United States
PHYSOR attracts international experts from all segments of the nuclear industry and scientific community, including vendors, utilities, laboratories, and universities. The theme for this year’s confe...
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31 January 2022
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10 November 2023
Vienna, Austria
The purpose of the event is to provide a forum for fostering the exchange of information, experiences, and anticipated future developments in the interrelationships between safety and sustainable dev...
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10 January 2023
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21 October 2022
Vienna, Austria
The IAEA International Conferences on Topical Issues in Nuclear Installation Safety (TIC) are organised periodically bringing together nuclear safety regulators, plant designers and operators, techni...
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1 June 2022
The Nuclear Terrorism Convention's main objective relates to the criminalisation of a number of nuclear and radioactive material related offences, the establishment of jurisdiction over these offen...
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26 April 2024
The Terrorist Bombings Convention's objective is to enhance international co-operation among states in devising and adopting effective and practical measures for the prevention of acts of terrorism...
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27 October 2023
The Terrorist Financing Convention's objective is to enhance international co-operation among states in devising and adopting effective measures for the prevention of the financing of terrorism, as...
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21 November 2023
The NEA performs depositary functions on behalf of the OECD Secretary-General for diverse international agreements.
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26 January 2023
The primary purpose of the International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) is to compile critical and subcritical benchmark experiment data into a standardised format that allo...
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10 November 2022
The International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) Handbook contains criticality safety benchmark specifications that have been derived from experiments that were performed at...
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10 November 2022
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Office for Nuclear Regulation, Merton Road, Bootle, Merseyside L20 7HS, United Kingdom
The workshop on the Approaches to design, implementation and operation of electrical systems for beyond design basis equipment and management of geomagnetically induced currents in electrical systems...
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22 June 2023
FACE project members met on 28-30 June 2023 in Paris, France.
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24 July 2023
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3 November 2023
Labadi Beach Hotel, Accra, Ghana
The International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation (IFNEC) hosted its first Ministerial Conference since the COVID-19 pandemic on 1-3 November 2023. Organised in co-operation with the Ghana A...
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21 August 2023
Description of the contents of the IFPE collection, maintained by the NEA and the IAEA.
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8 April 2024
International Fuel Performance Experiments (IFPE) is a data collection of nuclear fuel performance experiments for the purpose of code development and validation.
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18 January 2024
Guidance to request the data collection of nuclear fuel performance experiments for the purpose of code development and validation.
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19 April 2023
The 2021 edition contains data from 169 experimental series that were performed at 57 nuclear facilities.
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13 December 2022
The International Handbook of Evaluated Reactor Physics Benchmark Experiments (IRPhE) contains reactor physics benchmark specifications that have been derived from experiments that were performed at ...
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9 November 2022
International Mentoring Workshop in Spain
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26 October 2022
A delegation led by NEA Director-General William D. Magwood, IV attended the conference on 26-28 October 2022.
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16 November 2022
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28 October 2022
Washington DC, USA
The conference will provide a forum for ministers, policymakers, senior officials and experts to engage in high-level dialogue on the role of nuclear energy in the transition to clean energy sources,...
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13 August 2021
The NEA Committee on Radiological Protection and Public Health (CRPPH), through various sub-groups, has focused on improving the effectiveness of international nuclear emergency preparedness and mana...
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22 June 2022
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28 October 2022
Washington DC, United States
The 2021 International Nuclear Law Congress has been postponed to 2022. As the principal INLA gathering, held every two years, the Congress serves as the leading international conference for represen...
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27 April 2022
The International Nuclear Law Essentials (INLE) is a one-week programme run by the NEA covering practical issues in international nuclear law.
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10 April 2024
27 February 2023 -
3 March 2023
OECD Conference Centre, Paris
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The 2023 International Nuclear Law Essentials (INLE) programme will be conducted under the leadership of Paul Bowden, Honorary Professor of Law at the Nottingham La...
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7 February 2023
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OECD Conference Centre, Paris
4-8 March 2024
The application period is now closed.
Programme
The 2024 International Nuclear Law Essentials (INLE) programme will be conducted under the leadership of Paul Bowden, Honorary Professo...
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1 February 2024
International Nuclear Law Essentials (INLE) course took place on 4-8 March.
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19 March 2024
The CRPPH has long served as a forum for exchange and co-operation, to establish best practices, contribute to the development of the key recommendations of the International Commission on Radiologic...
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18 March 2024
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Stockholm University, Sweden
The 2023 edition of the IRPS took place in person in Stockholm, Sweden from 14-18 August 2023, in co-operation with the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) and the Centre for Radiation Protectio...
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2 October 2023
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Stockholm University, Sweden
The 2024 edition of the IRPS will be held in person at Stockholm University, Sweden, from 12-16 August 2024, in co-operation with the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) and the Centre for Radia...
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26 April 2024
The IRPhEP Database and Analysis Tool (IDAT) was first released in 2013 and is included on the IRPhE Handbook DVD. This database and corresponding user interface allows easy access to handbook inform...
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17 March 2022
The International School of Nuclear Law (ISNL) is a two-week programme run annually by the NEA and the University of Montpellier and supported by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Coveri...
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9 April 2024
21 August 2023 -
1 September 2023
Montpellier, France
The application period for the 2023 session is now closed.
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7 September 2023
26 August 2024 -
6 September 2024
Montpellier, France
The application period for the 2024 session is now closed.
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9 April 2024
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9 November 2023
Introduction to the International School of Nuclear Law (ISNL)
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26 January 2023
22 August 2022 -
2 September 2022
Montpellier
The application period for the 2022 session is closed.
Information about the 2023 programme will be available in the fall.
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20 April 2022
ISNL 2023 gathered 60 graduate students and professionals from across the world.
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11 September 2023
The International School on Simulation of Nuclear Reactor Systems (SINUS) provides hybrid, hands-on-training encompassing multiphysics modelling and simulation (M&S) and associated validation, verifi...
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21 December 2023
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6 December 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2021)9
This synthesis report summarises the technical programme and the outcome of the 2018 International Severe Accident Management Conference (ISAMC-2018) organised in Ottawa, Ontario on 15-18 October 201...
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11 December 2023
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International Convention Center (ICC), Jeju, Korea
The International workshop on disruptive technologies for nuclear safety applications is one of the most significant digital innovation events of the year. This two-day workshop was held on 16-17 May...
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9 May 2023
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17 November 2023
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852, United States
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10 October 2023
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OECD Conference Centre, Paris, France
Current status and future actions to ensure the reliable supply for molybdenum-99 (99Mo), and a conversation on a new generation of innovative radioisotopes for diagnostics and therapy
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10 November 2023
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OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, 46 Quai Alphonse le Gallo, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
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3 November 2022
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IRSN, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
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4 September 2023
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Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States
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20 April 2023
International experts gathered at the NEA for the commencement of the third phase TAF-ID on 16-17 February 2023.
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24 February 2023
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6 December 2022
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Paris, France
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26 January 2024
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Online training course
Dates: 12-13 April 2023
- Wednesday, 12 April 2023: lectures
- Thursday, 13 April 2023: practice
Location: Online course, 9:00-13:00 (CEST, UTC+02:00, Paris time)
Course fee: 50 EUR
Registration de...
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8 March 2023
NEA/NSC/R(2021)4
The understanding of nuclear physics and the associated uncertainties is essential to the modelling of all nuclear systems. Nuclear reaction probabilities, emitted particle energies and angles, fissi...
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8 February 2023
NEA webinars explore a common understanding of optimisation as an approach to decision making.
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8 February 2023
Nuclear legislation: Ireland
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25 April 2022
Collected sources of primary documentation for reactor physics benchmarks.
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14 April 2022
The International Reactor Physics Experiment Evaluation (IRPhE) Technical Review Group provides the nuclear community with qualified benchmark data sets by collecting reactor physics experimental dat...
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10 November 2022
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30 January 2023
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2 February 2023
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14 February 2024
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14 February 2024
The International School of Nuclear Law (ISNL) Commemorative Brochure highlights the history, academics and unique features of the ISNL that contribute to the "Spirit of Montpellier". In addition, th...
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19 January 2024
Nuclear legislation: Italy
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25 April 2022
JANIS (Java-based nuclear information software) is an application designed to facilitate the visualisation and manipulation of nuclear data. JANIS will be helpful to engineers and physicists who use ...
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24 November 2022
JANIS TRANS Checker is a command line tool for EXFOR compilers to check PRELIM or TRANS files and reports potential deviations from EXFOR coding rules.
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30 November 2023
National legislation: Japan
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19 September 2023
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14 April 2022
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19 April 2022
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21 April 2023
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21 November 2022
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19 April 2022
The Joint Convention is an incentive convention that aims to, inter alia, achieve and a high level of safety worldwide in spent fuel and radioactive waste management, through the enhancement of nat...
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6 December 2023
Joint Evaluated Fission and Fusion (JEFF) project agrees to establish a new project management group to oversee deliverable-focused mechanisms that include regular reviews of the status of new measur...
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12 December 2021
The NEA Data Bank Nuclear Data Service (NDS) organised the Joint Evaluated Fission and Fusion (JEFF) Nuclear Data Week (NDW) on 25-29 April 2022.
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20 May 2022
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24 October 2024
Paris, France
The Joint International Conference on Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications + Monte Carlo (SNA + MC 2024) is a long-standing conference that focuses on high-performance software development and use....
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17 January 2023
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9 June 2022
Liverpool, United Kingdom
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.
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6 April 2022
31 August 2022 -
1 September 2022
Iwaki Business Innovation Center, Fukushima, Japan
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (NDF) are organising an international workshop on the characterisation of large quanti...
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17 August 2022
The joint NEA-IAEA symposium hosted by the United Kingdom’s Office for Nuclear Regulation brought together experts to exchange on the use and application of Probabilistic Safety Analysis (PSA) for re...
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14 June 2022
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6 October 2023
Austria, Vienna
Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) technologies are attracting great interest in the public and private sectors for a broad spectrum of applications worldwide. Most efforts at the international level are devo...
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31 May 2023
Image adapted from Romolo Tavani, Shutterstock.
Exploring how innovative nuclear systems require innovative waste management solutions
The new NEA Joint Project on Waste Integration for Small and Adv...
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24 April 2024
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 convention.
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12 April 2022
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...
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26 April 2024
Full text of the Joint Protocol Relating to the Application of the Vienna Convention and the Paris Convention.
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26 April 2022
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26 June 2024
NEA headquarters, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
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20 March 2024
This benchmark was a continuation of the V1000CT activities and defined a coupled code problem for further validation of thermal-hydraulics system codes for application with Russian-designed VVER-100...
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19 July 2022
Project members held a meeting to discuss the activities.
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16 April 2024
The NEA Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) and the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) held their biannual meetings from 6 to 9 December 2021 and discussed the evol...
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14 December 2021
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16 December 2021
Nuclear legislation: Korea
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19 September 2023
Improving gender balance in nuclear
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8 March 2023
Le Plan stratégique a pour objectif d’orienter l’AEN dans les travaux qu’elle mène pour répondre aux priorités et aux besoins des pays membres et de leurs évolutions au regard de l’étude et de l’appl...
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7 February 2022
Lead-cooled Fast Reactors (LFR) are rather new concepts which have gathered increasing international attention after the Generation-IV International Forum (GIF) selected them as promising candidates ...
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9 June 2023
There are many types of legal challenges that can be raised in the context of the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Each country’s framework for legal challenges related to the peaceful use of nuclear...
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20 March 2024
The legislation country reports provide comprehensive information on the regulatory and institutional framework governing nuclear activities in OECD and NEA member countries.
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2 April 2024
The Working Party on Nuclear Liability and Transport (WPNLT) agreed to prepare and publish specific country sheets presenting provisions related to nuclear transport and transit under the relevant na...
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27 March 2024
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27 March 2024
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17 November 2023
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17 November 2023
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17 November 2023
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17 November 2023
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30 May 2023
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26 January 2022
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31 January 2023
The Liquid Metal Fast Reactor (LFMR) is one of the next generation reactor designs. This benchmark consists of steady-state numerical predictions of Texas A&M University (TAMU) separate effect tests ...
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19 July 2022
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2 October 2023
The goal of the LOCA-MIR experiments is to study the behaviour of high burnup, gadolinia-doped fuel under design-basis LOCA conditions.
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12 August 2022
JAEA High-temperature Engineering Test Reactor Photo: Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Task Group on Advanced Reactor Experimental Facil...
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19 March 2024
View looking down onto the LOFT reactor
The Loss-of-fluid Test (LOFT) Research Programme was originally set up by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Part of the programme was later broadened int...
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2 October 2023
Nuclear legislation: Luxembourg
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25 April 2022
The main decision body of the NEST Framework is the Management Board which includes one member and one alternate from each NEST Country.
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4 September 2023
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10 November 2022
Lord Elgin Hotel - Ottawa, Canada
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21 November 2022
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11 February 2022
The NEA held its second Risk Communication Training Course on 13-16 November in Abu Dhabi.
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4 December 2023
View of the RASPLAV-3 Facility.
The Material Scaling (MASCA) Project was a follow-up of the RASPLAV Project and investigated in-vessel phenomena during a severe accident with core melt. Specifica...
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6 October 2023
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30 November 2023
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON (Canada)
The Materials Modelling and Simulation for Nuclear Fuels (MMSNF) Workshop is a forum for the discussion of state-of-the-art modelling and simulation techniques for nuclear fuels and cladding material...
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20 November 2023
The transformative activity of mining has numerous economic, social and environmental impacts that can be both positive and adverse for communities, ecosystems and economies. As the uranium industry ...
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2 February 2023
2 February 2023
16:00-17:30 CET, Online
Uranium is the primary source of fuel for nuclear power plants, which provides large-scale low-carbon baseload electricity for more than 30 countries around the world and is the world’s second larges...
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25 August 2022
Building on the NEA BFBT and PSBT benchmarks, McMaster University, in collaboration with North Carolina State University, launched a CANDU thermal-hydraulic benchmark under the WPRS Expert Group on U...
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19 July 2022
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10 March 2023
Paris, France
This advanced course is designed for people who have experience in running MCNP Monte Carlo calculations, but who would like to advance their skills and develop greater depth of understanding of theo...
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28 August 2023
27 February 2023 -
3 March 2023
Paris, France
***The course is full***
This intermediate course is designed for people who have some experience in running MCNP Monte Carlo calculations, but who would like to refresh or advance their skills. Prov...
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13 January 2023
A new working group will focus on HTGRs.
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22 March 2024
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24 October 2023
All credible models show that nuclear energy has an important role to play in global climate change mitigation efforts (e.g. IEA, 2021; BNEF, 2021; IIASA, 2021). Despite clear analyses from many sour...
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12 May 2022
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19 April 2022
A total of 16 countries are parties to the Paris Convention.
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11 December 2023
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19 April 2024
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), California, USA
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2 February 2024
In a core melt accident, if the molten core is not retained in-vessel despite severe accident mitigation actions, the core debris will relocate to the reactor cavity region and interact with the stru...
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2 October 2023
NEA member countries and dates of accession
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15 June 2022
The meeting marked an important transition for the framework with the launch of four new Joint Experimental Programmes (JEEPs).
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24 April 2024
Members of FIDES-II from 12 countries assembled in Prague, Czech Republic, on 17-21 April 2023 for meetings of its Technical Advisory Group and Governing Board.
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21 April 2023
FIDES-II member assembled at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) in Mito, Japan.
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23 November 2023
The NEA and Women in Nuclear (WiN) Globalco-organised a mentoring session for young professionals in Tokyo, Japan
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8 June 2022
The NEA held its first Indigenous International Mentoring Workshop for female students in Ontario on 7-10 May 2023.
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3 June 2023
MeshTal Viewer user manual
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25 November 2022
Nuclear legislation: Mexico
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19 September 2023
NEA Director-General William D. Magwood was in Spain on 16-17 January for a series of meetings.
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25 January 2024
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31 August 2023
Status of accession of the Framework Agreement and Protocol on a Multilateral Nuclear Environmental Programme in the Russian Federation (MNEPR).
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17 November 2023
The NEA has started preparing its third Stakeholder Involvement Workshop which will focus on optimisation in decision-making.
Published date:
14 January 2022
Recent meetings of groups working under the aegis of the Framework for Irradiation Experiments (FIDES) have demonstrated that the international community is enthusiastic and on a strong course to ful...
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5 May 2022
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9 November 2023
Multi-physics Pellet Cladding Mechanical Interaction Validation (MPCMIV) Benchmark
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19 July 2022
Information on, including the status of adherence to, the multilateral agreements of highest import to international nuclear law.
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21 April 2023
The Multinational Design Evaluation Programme (MDEP) begins operation under a new framework agreement.
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4 February 2022
The Multinational Design Evaluation Programme (MDEP) continues under a new organisational structure after the second Management Board meeting.
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26 July 2022
NEA delegation participates in discussions at the Regulatory Information Conference in Washington D.C.
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27 March 2023
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23 March 2022
The NEA and the World Association of Nuclear Operators have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
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24 April 2023
The NEA has made progress on two activities that seek to bolster member countries’ nuclear and radiological emergency preparedness and their ability to co-ordinate response actions.
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27 May 2022
NEA and CNIC announced plans for collaborative efforts to help ensure the supply of medical radioisotopes.
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31 October 2023
The NEA announced today that it will co-operate with Net Zero Nuclear, the platform that the global nuclear industry has launched to deliver a Financing Nuclear work stream during COP28 in Dubai.
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3 October 2023
The three-day event was held at the ESIX University in Cherbourg, France with 15 female university and graduate students.
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14 December 2022
The COP27 NEA delegation were at the forefront of several discussions on the pathways that nuclear energy can offer to reduce carbon emissions.
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30 November 2022
The NEA participated in the 28th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to shed light on nuclear energy’s role in addressing climate change.
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11 December 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2019)13
Since its inception in 2002, the operating experience with thermal fatigue mechanisms has been an intrinsic aspect of the technical scope of CODAP, which is a joint database project within the Commit...
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11 October 2022
The Regulators’ Forum (RF), the Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) and the Committee on Decommissioning of Nuclear Installations (CDLM) held their annual plenary meetings and a joint commi...
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4 April 2022
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27 September 2022
The NEA Data Bank Computer Program Service (CPS) has been conducting training activities for more than 30 years. These courses provide a unique opportunity to bring together code users from around th...
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22 April 2024
In November 2023, the NEA Data Bank held two beginner level courses in Paris, France.
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21 November 2023
Courses were held in November 2022 in paris, France.
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14 December 2022
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15 April 2024
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4 May 2023
DG Magwood met with the leaders of government, industry, education and others to discuss the country’s growing role in the sector.
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17 May 2022
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12 August 2022
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9 May 2022
NEA forms Women in Nuclear Global Chapter
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30 January 2023
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11 October 2023
Pitești, Romania
The NEA in co-ordination with the National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest will convene the second country-specific workshop under the NEA Global Forum on Nuclear Education...
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26 September 2023
The Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy acts as an inclusive network of experts in the nuclear energy sector, primarily from academia, focused on enabling the generation...
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2 October 2023
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7 April 2023
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20 July 2022
Tokyo, Japan
The NEA Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy Workshop was held on 19-20 July 2022 at Mita Kaigisho Conference Centre in Tokyo, Japan.
Organised in co-operation with Japan...
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11 August 2022
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18 October 2023
Seoul, Korea
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27 September 2023
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31 October 2023
An NEA delegation led by Director-General William D. Magwood, IV, visited Japan from 18-24 July for a number of nuclear-energy focused meetings and events.
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29 July 2022
More than 50 participants from 25 countries took part in the five-day course.
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15 September 2023
The second edition of the Fundamentals of International Nuclear Law (FINL) course was held on 14-18 February 2022
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24 February 2022
NEA hosted two workshops in Romania on 25-29 July 2022.
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4 August 2022
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20 May 2022
Workshops seek to create motivating connections between female students and senior female representatives in STEM.
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26 January 2024
The fourth edition of the IRPS was held from 22-26 August in Stockholm, Sweden.
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7 September 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2022)9
The objective of this study is to compare leak rate computation practices and the applied tools and software solutions. Leak rate prediction is an important aspect of the leak-beforebreak assessment,...
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13 March 2024
The potential role of SMRs in reaching net zero, Africa’s developing nuclear sector, the challenges of nuclear fuel supply, and collaboration with Ukraine were among the subjects discussed during the...
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23 April 2024
In co-operation with the Nuclear and Radioactive Waste Agency of Romania the NEA organised a mentoring session with Romanian high school students.
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10 December 2021
NEA Director-General speaks at NE•RS 2022 conference, meets with Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade.
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20 June 2022
NEA organised the first official visit to Ghana on 1-6 November 2023.
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28 November 2023
The NEA co-organised the International Workshop on Disruptive Technologies for Nuclear Safety Applications on 16-17 May 2023 in Jeju, Korea.
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4 June 2023
NEA delegation led by Director-General Magwood was in Romania for a series of meetings and to co-host a workshop.
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29 June 2023
An NEA delegation led by Director-General William D. Magwood, IV, was in the United Arab Emirates on 27-30 March for a series of meetings.
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4 April 2022
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15 April 2024
NEA News is the professional journal of the NEA. It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nuclear safety and regulatio...
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31 August 2022
NEA News is the professional journal of the NEA. It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nuclear safety and regulatio...
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13 April 2023
The NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) and the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) convened on 4-8 December to discuss current activities and plan future body o...
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18 December 2023
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2 February 2023
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Online
Since its inception, the NEA has provided a highly flexible and powerful platform for multinational research co-operation, particularly in areas related to providing understanding and insights needed...
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27 February 2024
The 38 nations of the OECD have committed to improving gender balance in the nuclear sector and have formally called on national authorities and the industry to increase the number of women in scienc...
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8 June 2023
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9 March 2022
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22 July 2022
Sheraton Bucharest Hotel, Bucharest, Romania
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18 July 2022
FIDES-II members hold meeting at Idaho National Laboratory
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7 November 2022
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28 February 2024
NEA/CSNI/R(2022)3
The NEA Specialist Workshop on Advanced Measurement Method and Instrumentation for Enhancing Severe Accident Management in a Nuclear Power Plant addressing Emergency, Stabilisation and Long-term Reco...
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15 April 2024
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) fully supports the proposals made by the IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi to ensure that the seven pillars of nuclear security and safety are maintaine...
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9 March 2022
The NEA survey on the status of nuclear education, training and outreach in member countries is conducted by the NEA Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy Working Group 2:...
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22 March 2023
The imperative to reduce carbon emissions is profoundly transforming the electricity and energy systems of OECD and NEA countries. This sets in motion a number of interrelated developments that chall...
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5 March 2024
The task group met virtually for the fourth high-level NEA meeting on improving gender balance.
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8 December 2021
Delegates to the NEA Task Group on Improving the Gender Balance in the Nuclear Sector met on 14 February 2022
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17 February 2022
“Building a Framework for Post Nuclear Accident Recovery Preparedness: National-Level Guidance” report will will be presented and discussed at a web event on 23 May 2022
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14 March 2022
NEA Director-General William D. Magwood, IV was in Poland on 30-31 May 2023 for a series of meetings.
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6 June 2023
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...
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25 April 2022
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21 December 2023
8 December 2022
9:30-17:30 CET | Radisson Blu Sobieski Hotel, plac Artura Zawiszy 1, 02-025 Warsaw, Poland, and Online
Attaining net zero carbon emissions by 2050 will require financing and developing significant capacity of new nuclear power generation in the coming years and decades. To facilitate this process, the...
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12 December 2022
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18 July 2022
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17 August 2022
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15 April 2024
The project led by JAEA/CLADS will be dedicated to advanced remote technology for decommissioning under intense gamma-ray radiation environments (e.g. robotics, virtual reality).
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22 March 2023
NEST Alumni share valuable lessons from their fellowships
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25 April 2023
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9 September 2022
Stolberg, Germany
Nuclear Education, Science, Technology (NEST) Building competence, Expert knowledge, Applied techniques, Safe decommissioning, Train fellows (BEAST) summer school "Expert Knowledge – Research and Dev...
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11 August 2022
The webinar served as a kick-off meeting for the NEST fellows and the organisations participating in the NEST Building competence, Expert knowledge, Applied techniques, Safe decommissioning, Train fe...
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11 August 2022
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...
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24 May 2023
28 November 2023
Online Event
To celebrate the achievements of the Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework since its inception in 2019, the NEA will hold a virtual NEST Fellows Award Competition on 28 November 2...
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13 September 2023
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13 September 2023
The work of the Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework during 2021.
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7 January 2022
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...
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22 March 2023
NEA Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework leaflet (2023).
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7 April 2023
MANTRAS includes educational and training courses, events on applications in the medical sector, and access to the available research infrastructures. It focuses in particular on the development of n...
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22 March 2023
This NEST project addresses the main issues of i‑graphite management, including characterisation, decontamination and disposal.
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29 April 2022
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26 May 2023
Idaho National Laboratory, USA
The 2023 Microreactor Deployment Workshop will enable participating student teams to understand the multi-disciplinary challenges in deploying microreactors. Over a one-week course, students will be ...
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2 May 2023
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...
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22 March 2023
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4 December 2023
Nuclear legislation: Netherlands
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19 September 2023
The CRISSUE-S Project was created to re-evaluate fundamental technical issues with the technology of light water reactors (LWRs).
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2 November 2023
The meetings took place in April 2024 in the United States.
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25 April 2024
NEA/CSNI/R(2021)3
Recent operating experience in nuclear power plants has shown that there is a safety concern associated with the use of new industrial devices, including digital devices, in safety power systems in b...
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15 May 2023
The 2021 edition can be downloaded online.
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22 November 2022
The EGFSF will work on harmonising post-accident food safety management approaches to build and maintain producer and retailer’s accountability and consumer trust.
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27 June 2022
The group met in Paris to discuss future activities.
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23 January 2024
Realising the contribution of nuclear energy to achieving net zero carbon emission in 2050 will require raising significant amounts of capital at competitive rates. On the basis of work under the aeg...
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12 December 2022
The NEA has published the latest version of the NEA Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Dashboard which provides a comprehensive assessment of the progress made by 56 SMR designers and companies worldwide.
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7 March 2024
The Protocols to amend the Paris Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy and the Brussels Convention Supplementary to the Paris Convention will enter force on 1 January 202...
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17 December 2021
National legislation: New Zealand
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25 April 2022
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NEA, Paris, France
The course is full
Date: 4-7 December 2023
Place: OECD/NEA Headquarters
46, Quai Alphonse Le Gallo
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt (Paris) - FRANCE
Minimum enrollment: 15 participants
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17 November 2023
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30 June 2022
Nuclear legislation: Norway
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25 April 2022
Under the guidance of the Nuclear Science Committee (NSC), the Task Force on Demonstration of Fuel Cycle Closure including Partitioning and Transmutation (P&T) for Industrial Readiness by 2050 (TF-FC...
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8 January 2024
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4 May 2023
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18 September 2025
Austin, Texas, United States
This meeting intentionally occurs halfway between the International Conference on Nuclear Criticality (ICNC) editions to encourage and foster the collaboration and connections that occur at ICNC. Bas...
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25 April 2024
Nuclear Data Sensitivity Tool (NDaST), aims to provide rapid feedback on the effect of changes to nuclear data on integral benchmarks.
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17 May 2022
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OECD Conference Center, Château de la Muette, Paris / Hybrid meeting
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...
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21 April 2022
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NEA Headquarters, 46 Alphonse Le Gallo, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
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21 April 2023
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NEA Headquarters, 46 Alphonse Le Gallo, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
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8 April 2024
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25 November 2022
NEA Headquarters, 46 Alphonse Le Gallo, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
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17 October 2022
NEST Board assembles for 6th meeting in Paris
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25 October 2022
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...
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13 September 2023
Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology Press Pitch 2022
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18 October 2022
Nuclear emergency planning, response and recovery
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30 November 2022
Nuclear Energy Agency Welcomes Assistant Secretary Huff’s Announcement on the United States’ Decision to Join the NEA Data Bank
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16 August 2023
As a low-carbon electricity source, nuclear energy has a role to play in global climate change mitigation efforts.
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4 November 2022
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4 December 2023
Nuclear Energy Data is the Nuclear Energy Agency’s annual compilation of statistics and country reports documenting nuclear power status in NEA member countries and in the OECD area. Information prov...
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1 June 2022
The NEA took part in the ENEN2plus project which aims to address the key challenges of energy security and climate change through training and education on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the...
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12 December 2022
23 June 2023
14:00-15:30 CEST - Room D, OECD, 2 Rue André Pascal, 75016 Paris, France and Online
Many African countries are considering nuclear energy in their plans to increase electricity supply while reducing emissions. As part of the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact the OECD Nuclear En...
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12 June 2023
As governments around the world are committing to reaching net zero emissions by 2050, many countries are looking at the role hydrogen can play in mitigating climate change. This page provides more i...
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16 September 2022
NEA Director-General Magwood joined a line-up of over 200 speakers in the World Governments Summit in Dubai on 12-14 February.
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28 February 2024
Organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Climate and Environment of Poland, the conference gathered stakeholders in Warsaw on 8 December.
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12 December 2022
Focused on recent progress and challenges for nuclear financing, the virtual event concluded a series of six webinars dedicated to nuclear financing organised this year.
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6 December 2021
Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities Safety Week
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7 November 2022
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law.
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26 April 2024
Older issues of the Nuclear Law Bulletin (Nos. 1 to 80).
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3 April 2023
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law. It provides readers with authoritative and comprehensive information o...
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19 October 2022
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law. It provides readers with authoritative and comprehensive information o...
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5 July 2023
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law. It provides readers with authoritative and comprehensive information o...
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12 January 2022
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law. It provides readers with authoritative and comprehensive information o...
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7 July 2022
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law. It provides readers with authoritative and comprehensive information o...
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22 September 2023
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law. It provides readers with authoritative and comprehensive information o...
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28 February 2024
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14 June 2022
The Nuclear Law Committee (NLC) is a highly focused group of specialists designated by the NEA member countries, comprising lawyers, policy makers, academics and from time to time, technical experts....
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5 March 2024
Nuclear Law Education Resources
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6 June 2023
WPLANS members gathered on 27 September 2023.
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4 October 2023
The NEA gathered nuclear law experts for meetings in June 2023.
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26 June 2023
The NEA Nuclear Law Committee and the Contracting Parties to the Paris Convention held their meetings to discuss key issues and future work in the field of nuclear law.
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20 July 2022
The NEA workshop took place in Fukushima on 29-31 July.
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23 October 2023
Analytical studies on nuclear legislation in OECD member countries and in Central and Eastern Europe and the NIS issued between 1995 and 2003.
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27 October 2023
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2 June 2023
The NEA Division of Nuclear Law (DNL) works on a suite of publications, workshops and symposia to advance cooperation and understanding of nuclear liability.
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21 April 2022
20 September 2023
NEA, 46 Quai Alphonse Le Gallo, 92100, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
The NEA nuclear data stakeholder meeting, hosted at the NEA headquarters, will gather representatives from organisations that are end-users of nuclear modelling and simulation tools to exchange views...
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4 September 2023
The NEA Working Group on Safety Culture (WGSC) gathered delegates for its biannual meeting on 18-20 October 2022.
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30 November 2022
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Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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This training course focused on communicating risk on a daily basis. Its aim was to improve the effectiveness of risk communication in order to enhance ...
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27 September 2022
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16 November 2023
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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8 August 2023
One of the major achievements of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) is the knowledge it has helped to generate through the organisation of joint international research projects. Such projects, prim...
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15 April 2024
The NEA nuclear science programme is developed and executed by the Nuclear Science Committee (NSC), comprising high-level scientific experts from all NEA member countries.
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6 December 2023
Established to help fulfil the objectives of the Agency and the Nuclear Science Committee (NSC), the NSC Programme Review Group (PRG) formulates recommendations based on best practices to optimise ac...
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19 March 2024
Nuclear-hydrogen drives discussions at the Global Clean Energy Action Forum in Pittsburgh.
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24 October 2022
NEA/NSC/R(2020)7
In the past decade, a large amount of effort has been made towards the direct simulation of the boiling transition (BT) for boiling water reactor (BWR) fuel bundles. This international benchmark, bas...
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2 December 2021
The Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) is jointly sponsored by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Since 1992, ISOE has provided a forum...
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21 November 2022
Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) is jointly sponsored by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Since 1992, ISOE has provided a forum for...
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24 October 2023
Convention/treaty status of each member country of the OECD or the NEA.
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24 January 2024
PAKS Nuclear Power Plant, Hungary.
During a fuel crud removal operation on the Paks-2 unit on 10 April 2003, several fuel assemblies were severely damaged. The assemblies were being cleaned in a sp...
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2 October 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2021)8
The objective of the NEA THAI-3 project was to address open questions concerning the behaviour of hydrogen, iodine and aerosols under severe accident conditions in the containment of water cooled rea...
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28 August 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)11
This report summarises the work done for the activity: “Benchmark analysis on the eXtended Finite Element Method (X-FEM) calculation technology in its use to evaluate the fracture mechanics stress in...
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6 October 2022
NUPEC Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) Full-size Fine-mesh Bundle Test (BFBT) Benchmark
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2 August 2022
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23 September 2022
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6 September 2022
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7 April 2023
OECD Headquarters, Paris
Dates: 3-7 April, 2023
Place: OECD Headquarters in Paris, France
Minimum enrollment required: 12 participants
Course fee: 1000 EUR
This 4.5-day interactive course is intended to give students a thorough...
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27 January 2023
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9 March 2023
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27 October 2022
Online training course
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 ...
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23 September 2022
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28 April 2022
Online training course
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...
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21 April 2022
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31 January 2022
NEA/RWM/R(2019)6
In July 2016, the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) held a joint workshop to evaluate the current state of the art on operational safety of geological repo...
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30 November 2021
Leaders from regulation, government, industry, academia, international organisations and NGOs on 5-7 September 2023 in Paris.
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23 October 2023
The number of nuclear reactors approaching decommissioning, or already in the process of decommissioning, is increasing globally. Planning and performing decommissioning and dismantling activities ra...
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10 June 2022
The NEA event reviews the accomplishments of the joint safety projects.
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27 January 2023
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10 March 2022
PANDA vessel assembly (construction phase, 1993), PSI.
The PANDA project is a follow-up of the HYMERES-2 project, and its general objective is to advance the knowledge on the containment of thermal...
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31 August 2023
Compilation of the decisions, recommendations and interpretations concerning the Paris Convention
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13 March 2023
The Paris Convention establishes a nuclear liability and compensation regime to compensate victims of a nuclear accident. The PC is open to OECD member countries as of right and non-member countrie...
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26 April 2024
The Paris Convention establishes a nuclear liability and compensation regime to compensate victims of a nuclear accident. The PC is open to OECD member countries as of right and non-member countries ...
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30 March 2023
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9 March 2023
Latest status of ratifications or accessions to the Paris Convention on Nuclear Third Party Liability.
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4 April 2023
Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy of 29 July 1960, as amended by the Additional Protocol of 28 January 1964, by the Protocol of 16 November 1982 and by the Protocol o...
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2 February 2024
The aim of the benchmark is to improve understanding and modelling of pellet-cladding mechanical interaction (PCMI) amongst NEA member organisations. This is achieved by comparing PCMI predictions of...
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23 March 2022
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29 March 2022
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17 April 2023
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2 February 2024
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Barcelona, Spain
Date: 3-7 July 2023
Location: Universitat de Barcelona - Facultat de Fisica
Diagonal 645
08028 Barcelona - SPAIN
Course fee: 1500 Euros
Registration deadline: 26 May 2023
Participants m...
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4 April 2023
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30 June 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2019)11
In the ASCET Phase III, the goal was to assess and develop the Phase II (blind benchmark) recommendations using additional test results. The Phase III simulations were performed using a full set of t...
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24 November 2022
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18 August 2022
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18 January 2024
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25 November 2022
NEA, Paris (France)
PHITS (Particle and Heavy Ion Transport code System) is a general purpose Monte Carlo particle transport simulation code developed under a collaboration between Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and ...
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6 September 2022
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17 May 2024
NEA, Paris, France
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Date: 13-17 May 2024
Place: NEA Headquarters
46, Quai Alphonse Le Gallo
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt (Paris) - FRAN...
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22 April 2024
Instruction to get started prior to the course.
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18 August 2022
The NEA Data Bank held an OpenMC training course, the first of its kind, on 25-28 April 2022.
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11 May 2022
Pipe Degradation & Failure as a Function of In-Service Time (Years) at the time of the OPDE project closure
The goals of the Piping Failure Data Exchange (OPDE) Project were to:
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20 February 2024
PAKS control room.
Under an agreement with the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, (JAERI), the NEA supported an international research project with the goal of developing a plant safety monito...
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19 December 2023
Nuclear legislation: Poland
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19 September 2023
National legislation: Portugal
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19 September 2023
Summaries of actions taken and questionnaire responses regarding human and organisational factors addressed by these actions.
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17 January 2023
Human and organisational factors lessons learnt implementing post-Fukushima actions
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17 January 2023
In the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi accident in March 2011, nuclear regulators, industry organisations, and operating companies across the globe began the process of understanding the lessons l...
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17 January 2023
The new project assembled global experts at the NEA.
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25 July 2022
P2M includes in-pile tests and Post-Irradiated Examinations in Hot-Laboratory to assess the operational margins at high power.
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6 December 2023
Workshop: The medium and the message: Challenges and solutions in selecting and preserving records of radioactive waste
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12 September 2023
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10 March 2023
This report presents practical guidance to enhance leadership for safety in nuclear regulatory bodies. It identifies the effective characteristics, competencies and behaviours of leaders in regulator...
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12 March 2024
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24 April 2023
End state of debris in the units 1-3 of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings. Photo: Japan Atomic Energy Agency
The Preparatory Study on Analysis of Fuel D...
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25 November 2022
In preparation for INEX-G, the NEA Expert Group on the Sixth International Nuclear Emergency Exercise held a briefing session on 19 October.
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23 November 2023
INEX-6 will be the largest exercise in over 20 years.
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30 May 2023
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4 May 2022
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4 January 2023
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20 January 2023
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21 February 2023
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21 February 2023
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20 January 2023
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4 January 2023
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5 May 2023
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5 May 2023
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5 May 2023
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3 July 2023
Presentations from the International workshop on disruptive technologies for nuclear safety applications
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1 June 2023
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3 July 2023
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3 July 2023
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3 July 2023
This benchmark incorporated full 3-D modelling of the reactor core into system transient codes for best-estimate simulations of the interactions between reactor core behaviour and plant dynamics and ...
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2 August 2022
PWR MOX/UO2 Core Transient Benchmark
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7 December 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2019)15
The VeRCoRs facility mock-up is a reactor containment building at 1/3 scale. The mock-up is instrumented so that its behaviour is monitored from the beginning of construction. More than 700 sensors a...
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27 September 2022
The NEA Working Group on the Analysis and Management of Accidents convened for its annual meeting to discuss ongoing work related to accident strategy and management.
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14 September 2023
Prevention, mitigation and management of potential accidents in nuclear power plants
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5 October 2022
PKL facility. Photo: FRAMATOME, Germany
The Primärkreislauf-Versuchsanlage (Primary Coolant Loop Test Facility [PKL]) is a facility owned and operated by Framatome GmbH (formerly AREVA NP) in Erlange...
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6 October 2023
Principles and Practice of International Nuclear Law examines the various interrelated legal issues for the safe, efficient and secure use of nuclear energy. It provides an overview of the complex bo...
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14 February 2022
Joint NEA and IAEA event will explore probabilistic safety assessment for reactors of singular designs
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28 April 2022
Proceedings of the Second Specialists' Meeting on Shielding Aspects of Accelerators, Targets, and Irradiation Facilities (SATIF) at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland on 12-13 October 1995.
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4 March 2024
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)18
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Workshop on Structural Reliability Evaluation and Mechanical Probabilistic Approaches of NPP Components was held in Lyon, France on 25-27 S...
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20 December 2021
NEA/CNRA/R(2020)3
The main objectives of the Special International Nuclear Regulatory Inspection Workshop on Digital Instrumentation & Control (DI&C), which was jointly held by the Nuclear Energy Agency’s (NEA) Workin...
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25 August 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)4
The investigation conducted in the last 15 years on different aspects of Source Term worldwide, and particularly in the context of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in the form of projects and the Work...
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14 April 2022
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The NEA Division of Nuclear Law (DNL) helps create sound national and international legal regimes required for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
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25 April 2022
The Multinational Design Evaluation Programme (MDEP) entered a new phase on 14 December 2021. The MDEP will continue in its role as a unique multinational initiative leveraging the resources and know...
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The "Back-End Week" convened members to discuss decommissioning and waste management activities.
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11 April 2024
The NEA and CAEA held the NEA-China Forum on Nuclear Decommissioning and Radioactive Waste Management in Beijing.
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23 October 2023
The NEA hosted the 16th edition of information exchange meetings on actinide and fission product partitioning and transmutation (16IEMPT).
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22 November 2023
Two new reports from the WGFS highlight the latest developments in RIA research.
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30 November 2022
More than 20 international experts gathered for the second meeting of the third phase of the TAF-ID project.
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21 December 2023
At the heart of the NEST Framework are multinational and multidisciplinary projects, so-called NEST projects.
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24 May 2023
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9 March 2023
The Kiev Protocol requires states to evaluate the consequences of their official draft plans and programmes, and, to the extent appropriate, policies and legislation that are likely to have signifi...
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24 January 2024
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.
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26 April 2024
The 2004 Protocol to the BSC improves the existing regime by requiring that significantly more compensation be made available to supplement that which is to be provided for under the Paris Conventi...
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12 April 2022
1982 Protocol to Amend 1963 Brussels Supplementary Convention
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12 May 2023
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The 2004 Protocol to the PC improves the existing regime by requiring that more money be made available to compensate more victims for a broader range of damages.
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Scheme of the PSB-VVER facility, EREC
The NEA PSB-VVER project provided unique and useful experimental data for code validation using the PSB-VVER test facility. The PSB-VVER facility is a large-scal...
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6 October 2023
The Nuclear Law Bulletin (NLB) welcomes submissions from professionals and academics involved in or interested in the field of nuclear law.
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26 April 2022
Image: QUENCH facility at KIT. Court. KIT.
The purpose of the QUENCH-ATF project is to investigate the chemical, mechanical and thermal-hydraulics behaviour of ATF claddings in Design Basis Accident...
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17 May 2023
A group of researchers and experts operating under the aegis of the High-Level Group of Low Dose Research, a working party of the Committee on Radiological Protection and Public Health (NEA CRPPH)
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22 January 2024
The new task force will explore radiological protection and publich health challenges of SMRs.
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25 November 2022
The Working Group on the Radiological Protection Aspects of Decommissioning Activities at Nuclear Power Plants (WGDECOM) holds its 12th meeting in Germany
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Oslo, Norway
While the ongoing war in Ukraine has not thus far resulted in any major radiological threats to public health and safety, it is the first time in history that a country with significant nuclear and r...
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6 December 2023
Established in 2014, the WGDECOM unites 19 experts from 12 countries in developing a process to better share radiological protection data.
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21 November 2023
The Management Board of the Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) held its 33rd meeting in Vienna on 4-7 December 2023.
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19 December 2023
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NEA/CSNI/R(2020)10
Following the recommendations from the technical workshop on “Nuclear Fuel Behaviour during Reactivity-Initiated Accidents” organised by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in September 2009, a first ben...
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18 October 2022
One of the key areas in fuel safety is the analysis of fuel behaviour under reactivity-initiated accident conditions. Reactivity-initiated accident fuel rod codes have been developed for a significan...
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13 April 2022
NEA/CNRA/R(2022)5
This report outlines first the safety concerns and the regulatory basis for reactor water level measurement diversity and reliability in participating countries. After that the measurement methods an...
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25 March 2024
The webinar "Research and international dialogue in technology nuclear power - What role for Italy?", was held on 17- 18 November 2021.
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14 December 2021
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Left: Test facility for qualification of melt spreading tests. Photo: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL).
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The publication of the latest EGIR report marks the completion of phase one of the group's programme of work.
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NEA and NRA held joint conference on regulators' views in Tokyo, Japan 10 years after TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi NPS Accident.
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12 December 2022
NEA Regulators' Forum meet at the NEA in Paris to discuss regulatory issues
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26 April 2023
The NEA will host a webinar to launch its new report “Regulatory Implementation of the Equivalent Dose Limit for the Lens of the Eye for Occupational Exposure: Successes and challenges to the approac...
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15 February 2022
NEA/CRPPH/R(2021)1
Successes and Challenges to the Approaches Identified Through a Survey of Regulators
This report summarises the practical experiences of regulators and stakeholders worldwide in implementing the Inte...
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2 March 2022