This report gives details of intercomparisons studies undertaken to investigate the accuracy of calculation methods used for reactor physics studies. The same nuclear data library, JEF-2.2, was used ...
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1 January 1999
Current knowledge of the nuclear physics of fuels and materials provides an understanding and simulation of the operations of nuclear reactors and other systems, both under ordinary and exceptional c...
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18 July 2019
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24 November 2020
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6 December 2019
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1 July 2020
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5 August 2020
The second Roundtable on Final Disposal of High‑level Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel,
7 February 2020
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7 February 2020
NEA Director General William D. Magwood, IV delivering his opening remarks at the International Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Power in the 21st Century. St Regis Saadiyat Island Resort, Abu Dhabi...
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31 October 2017
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1 January 1994
NEA workshop addresses the importance of a secure supply chain of medical radioisotopes to save lives.
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30 November 2023
The ICGR brings together high-level decision-makers from regulatory and local government bodies, waste management organisations and public stakeholder communities to review current perspectives of ge...
Published date:
26 February 2021
Worldwide consensus exists within the international community that geological repositories can provide the necessary long-term safety and security to isolate long-lived radioactive waste from the hum...
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4 April 2017
International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology
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28 September 2020
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
There are a variety of international conventions and agreements in the nuclear field, to which most countries with significant nuclear activities are parties.
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31 January 2020
The NEA performs depositary functions on behalf of the OECD Secretary-General for diverse international agreements.
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26 January 2023
International criticality safety benchmark evaluation
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22 January 2021
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
A Working Party on International Evaluation Co-operation was established under the sponsorship of the OECD/NEA Nuclear Science Committee (NSC) to promote the exchange of information on nuclear data e...
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1 January 1996
Evaluation Method of Inelastic Scattering Cross-sections for Weakly Absorbing Fission-product Nuclides
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21 September 2001
Nuclear Models to 200 MeV for High-Energy Data Evaluations
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1 January 1998
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1 January 1998
Processing and Validation of Intermediate Energy Evaluated Data Files
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28 December 2000
Cross-section Fluctuations and Self-shielding Effects in the Unresolved Resonance Region
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1 January 1996
Effects of Shape Differences in the Level Densities of Three Formalisms on Calculated Cross-Sections
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1 January 1998
Status of Pseudo-Fission-Product Cross-Sections for Fast Reactors
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1 January 1998
Epithermal Capture Cross-Section of U-235
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1 January 1999
Neutron Activation Cross-section Measurements from Threshold to 20 MeV for the Validation of Nuclear Models and Their Parameters (Volume 19)
Published date:
12 December 2005
Generation of Covariance Files for Iron-56 and Natural Iron
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1 January 1996
This document serves as a summary of the work of Subgroup 20 (SG20) on covariance matrix evaluation and processing in the resolved/unresolved resonance regions, organised under the auspices of the NE...
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18 August 2006
Subgroup 21 of the NEA Nuclear Science Committee Working Party on International Evaluation Co-operation was charged with the task of assessing neutron cross-section evaluations for fission products. ...
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8 July 2005
Nuclear Data for Improved LEU-LWR Reactivity Predictions
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29 November 2006
This publication reports the conclusions from the work undertaken by Subgroup 23 of the NEA Working Party on International Nuclear Data Evaluation Co-operation (WPEC), whose mission was to produce an...
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27 September 2009
Covariance Data in the Fast Neutron Region
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7 October 2011
This publication presents the conclusions of the work undertaken by Subgroup 25 of the NEA Working Party on International Evaluation Co-operation, which focused on the assessment and improvement of t...
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14 November 2007
This publication reports the conclusions from the work undertaken by Subgroup 26 of the NEA Working Party on International Nuclear Data Evaluation Co-operation (WPEC), which focused on the developmen...
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1 September 2008
Uranium-235 Capture Cross-section in the keV to MeV Energy Region
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7 October 2011
Actinide Data in the Thermal Energy Range
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1 January 1996
The following report has been issued by WPEC Subgroup 30, whose mission was to improve the accessibility and the quality of the EXFOR database to ensure that its invaluable contents can be used in co...
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7 October 2011
Meeting Nuclear Data Needs for Advanced Reactor Systems
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13 March 2014
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7 October 2011
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20 December 2013
Co-ordinated Evaluation of Plutonium-239 in the Resonance Region
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12 March 2020
U-238 Capture and Inelastic Cross-Sections
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1 January 1999
Thermal Scattering Law S(α,β): Measurement, Evaluation and Application
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13 March 2020
Plutonium-239 Fission Cross-section Between 1 and 100 keV
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1 January 1996
Delayed Neutron Data for the Major Actinides
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11 October 2002
Subgroup 7 of the NEA Working Party on International Nuclear Data Co-operation (WPEC) was established to re-evaluate the nuclear data standards cross-section. These cross-section data are the basis f...
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29 November 2006
Present Status of Minor Actinide Data
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1 January 1999
This report has been prepared by Subgroup 9 which was set up in 1998 with the aim of investigating discrepancies found between microscopic and macroscopic data for the uranium-235 fission neutron spe...
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15 July 2003
A “safety case” is the synthesis of evidence, analyses and arguments that quantify and substantiate a claim that a geological repository for radioactive waste will be safe after closure and beyond th...
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5 May 2009
FACE project members met on 28-30 June 2023 in Paris, France.
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24 July 2023
Description of the contents of the IFPE collection, maintained by the NEA and the IAEA.
Published date:
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.
Published date:
18 January 2024
Guidance to request the data collection of nuclear fuel performance experiments for the purpose of code development and validation.
Published date:
19 April 2023
The 2021 edition contains data from 169 experimental series that were performed at 57 nuclear facilities.
Published date:
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 ...
Published date:
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
NEA Director General William D. Magwood, IV delivering his opening remarks at the International Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Power in the 21st Century. St Regis Saadiyat Island Resort, Abu Dhabi...
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31 October 2017
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1 January 1998
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
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
The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 heightened awareness of the need to improve the international legal framework governing the safe and peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Numerou...
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17 July 2006
This publication commemorates the International School of Nuclear Law which is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2010. The purpose of the publication is to provide an overview of the international ...
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26 July 2010
International Nuclear Law Essentials (INLE) course took place on 4-8 March.
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19 March 2024
International peer reviews as a working method is closely associated with OECD practice, where it is facilitated by the homogeneous membership and the high degree of trust shared by the member countr...
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17 November 2005
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
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
ICSBEP, SINBAD AND IRPhEP Technical Review Group meetings, October 2021.
Published date:
25 October 2021
Worldwide consensus exists within the international community that geological repositories can provide the necessary long-term safety and security to isolate long-lived radioactive waste from the hum...
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25 September 2020
International Roundtable on the Final Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel: Summary Report
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11 August 2020
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
ISNL 2023 gathered 60 graduate students and professionals from across the world.
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11 September 2023
The NEA recently concluded the 2021 edition of the International School of Nuclear Law (ISNL), which was from 23 August to 3 September 2021.
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8 September 2021
The NEA hosted a roundtable discussion on 1 October 2020 to celebrate what would have been the 20th anniversary of the International School of Nuclear Law (ISNL).
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6 October 2020
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
Cost estimation for the decommissioning of nuclear facilities can vary considerably in format, content and practice both within and across countries. These differences may have legitimate reasons but...
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2 March 2012
International Workshop on Nuclear Data Evaluation for Reactor Applications (WONDER)
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23 September 2020
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
In celebration of women during the month of March, we spoke with Rebecca Tadesse, Head of the NEA Division of Radioactive Waste Management and Decommissioning, about her views on gender balance and l...
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17 March 2021
NEA’s recognition of women scientists and engineers during the month of March continues as we speak with Véronique Rouyer, Head of the NEA Division of Nuclear Safety Technology and Regulation, about ...
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25 March 2021
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29 July 2015
Good governance and efficiency in decision making by governmental authorities are increasingly dependent upon mutual trust and confidence between those authorities and the public. This workshop provi...
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16 May 2001
NEA webinars explore a common understanding of optimisation as an approach to decision making.
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8 February 2023
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1 January 1999
Nuclear legislation: Ireland
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25 April 2022
IRPhE Handbook 2019 Edition - Contents
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30 September 2020
This page describes the restrictions and provides a disclaimer on the use of International Handbook of Evaluated Reactor Physics Benchmark Experiments (IRPhE) .
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9 November 2020
Collected sources of primary documentation for reactor physics benchmarks.
Published date:
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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1 January 1997
For the ISNL's 10th anniversary in 2010, the NEA published a special report on the ISNL's first decade, including a brief history of the founding of the programme and an overview of ISNL lecturers an...
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2 July 2010
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
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1 January 1999
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1 January 1998
The ISOE Bureau welcomed the proposal and also decided that close collaboration with the CRPPH Working Party on Nuclear Emergency Management (WPNEM) is necessary for this work. It is also indicated t...
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27 May 2020
It was expected from utilities representatives participating to the EGWC to provide a description of the way they managed their source term so as to prevent (limit) contamination of the primary coola...
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27 May 2020
The Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) was created in 1992 to provide a forum for radiation protection experts from both utilities and national regulatory authorities to discuss, prom...
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1 March 2002
Decommissioning of nuclear power plants is a subject of growing importance for NEA member countries and will represent significant budgets and industrial activities in the future. Through various joi...
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27 May 2020
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
The JANIS Books are compilations of cross-section curves of evaluated and experimental data from a number of evaluated libraries, nuclear reactions and associated reaction products.
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2 October 2020
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28 September 2020
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28 September 2020
JANIS documentation and help pages
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28 September 2020
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28 September 2020
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
Following the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident, extraordinary efforts were undertaken in Japan to implement a compensation scheme for the proper and efficient indemnification of t...
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31 December 2013
The Nuclear Energy Agency carried out an independent peer review of Japan’s siting process and criteria for the geological disposal of high-level radioactive waste in May 2016. The review concluded t...
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20 January 2016
JEF-1 Scattering Law Data; J.Keinert, M. Mattes (IKE 6 147), (September 1984).
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26 September 1984
JEF-2.2 Radioactive Decay Data; NEA Data Bank (August 1994).
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1 January 1994
JEF/EFF Based Nuclear Data Libraries; P.Vontobel, S. Pelloni (December 1987).
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26 December 1987
The JEFF suite of nuclear data libraries contains a number of different data types, including neutron and proton interaction data, radioactive decay data, fission yields data, and thermal scattering ...
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27 January 2020
Supplements to JEFF Report 23
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26 May 2020
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
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31 May 2005
Joint Declaration on the Security of Supply of Medical Radioisotopes
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9 July 2020
The JEFF suite of nuclear data libraries contains a number of different data types, including neutron and proton interaction data, radioactive decay data, fission yields data, and thermal scattering ...
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4 December 2019
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.
Published date:
20 May 2022
The NEA held a Joint Learning Forum on safety culture co-organised by its Working Group on Human and Organisational Factors (WGHOF) and Working Group on Safety Culture (WGSC) on 26 October 2020.
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26 October 2020
Joint NEA-IAEA meeting on electrical power systems, 2‑5 December 2019
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5 December 2019
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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13 June 2017
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4 October 2017
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
The NEA and Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) co-organised an online International Workshop on Joint Utilisation of Underground Research Laboratories in Research. The event was h...
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28 September 2021
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14 June 2002
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...
Published date:
19 July 2022
Energie ist der Motor der Weltwirtschaft und mit der Expansion der führenden Volkswirtschaften und dem Wachstum der Entwicklungsländer steigt der Weltenergiebedarf stetig an. Die Befriedigung dieser ...
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27 July 2006
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
- As the current nuclear workforce ages, concerns are arising over skills requirements and transferring knowledge to the new generation of experts and staff. A key issue is the loss of tacit knowledge...
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7 November 2019
Nuclear legislation: Korea
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19 September 2023
Published date:
11 August 2020
L'énergie est le carburant de l'économie mondiale. Pour alimenter leur croissance, les pays développés comme les pays en développement en consomment toujours davantage. Comment concilier la demande d...
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1 October 2003
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7 December 2000
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12 May 2010
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1 January 2000
Produire de l'uranium de façon sûre et responsable sur le plan environnemental est important non seulement pour les producteurs et les consommateurs du produit, mais également pour la société dans so...
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14 August 2014
Les réactions du public face à l’énergie nucléaire sont fondamentales pour la détermination des politiques nucléaires dans les pays de l’OCDE/AEN, et ces derniers ne pourront faire appel à cette sour...
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22 March 2010
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9 June 2010
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12 April 2006
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16 September 2010
La mise en oeuvre du Protocole de Kyoto et l'application de ses mécanismes de flexibilité sont au premier plan des débats de politique énergétique dans la plupart des pays de l'OCDE. Le rôle que l'én...
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26 July 2002
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1 January 1999
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6 October 2008
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31 March 2009
Ce panorama présente un synopsis facile à aborder du contrôle réglementaire de la gestion des déchets radioactifs de 15 pays membres de l'AEN. Il traite la question de la gestion des déchets radioact...
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16 August 2005
Les laboratoires de recherche souterrains sont des outils essentiels à l'acquisition de données scientifiques et techniques et d'expérience pratique nécessaires à la conception et à la construction d...
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20 November 2001
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24 June 2005
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20 November 2001
Le processus de décision mis en place pour convevoir et mettre en oeuvre des modes de stockage à long terme des déchets radioactifs se déroule sur des décennies, comporte maintes étapes et fait inter...
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1 June 2005
Pour une grande partie de la classe politique et de la population, la très longue durée de vie de certains radionucléides contenus dans les déchets radioactifs pose un problème difficile pour le stoc...
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29 May 2006
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29 May 2007
La réversibilité des décisions est un concept important dans le processus de décision par étapes qui est prévu pour le stockage géologique des déchets radioactifs. Les implications liées à la récupér...
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4 February 2002
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17 June 2011
Quelle peut être la contribution du nucléaire à l’amélioration de la sécurité d’approvisionnement énergétique ? Cette étude, qui porte sur une sélection de pays membres de l’OCDE, confirme par une an...
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1 July 2011
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10 November 2005
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10 November 2011
Improving gender balance in nuclear
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8 March 2023
The NEA Nuclear Law Committee (NLC) met remotely on 18-20 November 2020 to review the ongoing activities of the NEA Office of Legal Counsel and the NLC working parties on nuclear liability and transp...
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2 December 2020
NEA Management Board for the Development, Application and Validation of Nuclear Data and Codes (MBDAV) meeting, 21-22 September 2020.
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9 October 2020
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22 July 2021
CNRA/CSNI meetings, May-June 2021.
Published date:
10 June 2021
The NEA Nuclear Law Committee (NLC) met remotely on 9-11 June 2021 to review the ongoing activities of the NEA Office of Legal Counsel and the NLC working parties on nuclear liability and transport, ...
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29 June 2021
The NEA hosted a webinar on 18 November to launch and discuss the findings from its new report The Supply of Medical Radioisotopes: An Economic Diagnosis and Possible Solutions.
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18 November 2019
Les autorités réglementaires comptent parmi les principales parties prenantes dans le processus de prise de décision concernant la gestion des déchets radioactifs. Le Comité de l’AEN de la gestion de...
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4 June 2004
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7 March 2002
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11 August 2020
Une des préoccupations majeures exprimée dans la production d'éléctricité d'origine nucléaire est que le démantèlement (déconstruction à un niveau donné) d'installations en fine de vie représente un ...
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14 October 2005
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26 February 2007
Cette publication commémore l’École internationale de droit nucléaire qui célèbre son 10e anniversaire en 2010. L’objectif de la publication est d’offrir une vue d’ensemble des instruments internatio...
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30 July 2010
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6 December 2006
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2 December 2004
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12 February 2010
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22 December 2016
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1 January 1999
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13 May 2005
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17 September 2004
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5 July 2010
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
Assurer la gestion des déchets résultant de la production d’énergie nucléaire dans des conditions sûres, respectueuses de l’environnement et économiques, constitue un défi important qui conditionne l...
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1 January 2000
Les pouvoirs publics et les autorités réglementaires sont chargés de définir les contrôles ou conditions réglementaires à imposer, le cas échéant, aux sources et situations d'exposition aux rayonneme...
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14 February 2006
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19 December 2011
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
This report presents a synthesis of the key findings and experience of the NEA Forum on Stakeholder Confidence regarding the governance of long-term radioactive waste management. Most of the main fin...
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13 September 2004
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10 October 2006
In line with its ambition to be a reference centre for knowledge preservation, the NEA Data Bank also offers the following legacy books from its collection.
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21 April 2020
Dr. J.D. Lewins, has made available three of his books (for which he owns the copyright) for free distribution by the NEA Data Bank.
- Importance: The Adjoint Function
- Nuclear Reactor Kinetics and Con...
Published date:
27 April 2020
Professor M.M.R Williams, the copyright owner, has released three of his legacy books for free distribution by the NEA Data Bank.
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23 April 2020
NEA Working Party on Deep Geological Repositories and Nuclear Liability (WPDGR) meeting, 25-26 June 2020.
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1 July 2020
NEA Working Party on the Legal Aspects of Nuclear Safety (WPLANS) meeting, 19-20 May 2021
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26 May 2021
NEA Working Party on the Legal Aspects of Nuclear Safety meeting, 9-10 June 2020.
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1 July 2020
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
With almost 70% of the operating nuclear power reactors over 30 years of age, countries around the world are assessing whether to allow reactor operation past the 50 60 year mark and potentially up t...
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22 November 2019
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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13 April 2004
Cette publication analyse la législation et la réglementation régissant les utilisations pacifiques de l'énergie nucléaire en Europe de l'Est. Elle couvre 11 pays d'Europe centrale et orientale et 1...
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1 January 2000
L'évaluation de la sûreté à long terme des centres de stockage des déchets radioactifs nécessite notamment d’étudier les événements perturbateurs d’origine naturelle ou humaine et d’en évaluer les im...
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1 January 1995
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30 April 2003
Chaque année on produit de grandes quantités de déchets dangereux, mais seule une faible proportion est constituée de déchets radioactifs. Si, globalement, on a trouvé des solutions satisfaisantes po...
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22 April 2011
Comme les matières radioactives rejetées tout au long des principales étapes de la production d'énergie nucléaire peuvent avoir un effet sur la santé publique et l'environnement, il convient d'en ten...
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1 January 2000
In 1994, a Working Group was set up under the PAAG on Integrated Performance Assessments of Deep Repositories (IPAG). The aim of the group is to provide a forum for informed discussion on performance...
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1 January 1997
This book describes the legal regime established to deal with the aftermath of a nuclear accident and the reappraisal of that regime following the Chernobyl disaster. It focuses particularly on the i...
Published date:
1 January 1994
En radioprotection, on entend par « libération » la décision prise par l'autorité compétente de lever tous les contrôles réglementaires appliqués jusqu'alors aux matériaux et bâtiments radioactifs. C...
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31 December 2009
La libération des sites d’installations nucléaires des contrôles radiologiques est généralement l’une des dernières étapes du déclassement. À ce jour, seul un petit nombre de projets en ont fait l’ob...
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27 September 2006
Benchmark intercomparison studies are being undertaken to investigate the accuracy of calculation methods. The same nuclear data library, JEF-2.2, is used in all the codes. The objective has been to ...
Published date:
1 January 1999
The long-term safety of deep disposal of radioactive waste will be strongly dependent on the performance of the geological setting. The geology fulfils important safety functions including isolating ...
Published date:
22 June 2007
NJOY - Data Processing System of Evaluated Nuclear Data Files in ENDF format
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24 April 2020
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
The goal of the LOCA-MIR experiments is to study the behaviour of high burnup, gadolinia-doped fuel under design-basis LOCA conditions.
Published date:
12 August 2022
As the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (NPP) accident illustrates, many challenges have to be faced in maintaining safety over the long term in a damaged NPP following a severe accident. These ...
Published date:
29 April 2021
The NEA Working Group on Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) organised a specialist workshop entitled “Reactor core and containment cooling systems: Long-term management and reliability (RCC...
Published date:
29 October 2021
This study constitutes an initial analysis, at an international level, of the institutional aspects of the long-term management of radioactive waste and may be added to the numerous scientific and te...
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1 January 1984
The existing nuclear fleet remains the largest low-carbon source of electricity generation in OECD countries. In 2021 the average nuclear power plant had already been operating for 31 years and some ...
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29 July 2021
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1 January 1998
The levelised costs of electricity generation of low-carbon generation technologies are falling and are increasingly below the costs of conventional fossil fuel generation, finds the 2020 edition of ...
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9 December 2020
Low-level radioactive waste (LLW) arises in the normal operation of nuclear power plants and fuel cycle facilities, as well as from the use of radioactive isotopes in medicine, industry and agricultu...
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1 January 1999
Nuclear legislation: Luxembourg
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25 April 2022
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4 May 2012
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20 July 2001
Radioactive waste results from many different activities in health care, industry, research, and power production. All such waste must be managed safely, with the protection of human health and the e...
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1 January 2020
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
Large stocks of depleted uranium have arisen as a result of enrichment operations, especially in the United States and the Russian Federation. Countries with depleted uranium stocks are interested in...
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22 August 2001
NEA Working Party on Information, Data and Knowledge Management (WP‑IDKM) held a topical session on IDKM timescales on 1-2 September 2021 towards building a common understanding of the timescales inv...
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5 October 2021
The NEA Expert Group on Fukushima Waste Management and Decommissioning R&D (EGFWMD) was established in 2014 to offer advice to the authorities in Japan on the management of large quantities of on-sit...
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2 December 2016
Interest in nuclear energy continues to grow in many countries as a means to ensure security of energy supply and to limit greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector. In this context, recyclable ...
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27 April 2007
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) organised a workshop on the “Management of Uncertainty in Safety Cases and the Role of Risk” in Stockholm, Sweden, on 2-4 February 2004. The workshop’s main objec...
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25 February 2005
Uranium mining and milling has evolved significantly over the years. By comparing currently leading approaches with outdated practices, this report demonstrates how uranium mining can be conducted in...
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4 June 2014
Este informe fue preparado por el Grupo de Trabajo de Comunicación Pública de las Organizaciones Reguladoras Nucleares (WGPC) del Comité sobre Actividades Reguladoras Nucleares (CNRA) de la Agencia d...
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15 June 2020
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31 March 2021
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5 September 2008
The NEA held its second Risk Communication Training Course on 13-16 November in Abu Dhabi.
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4 December 2023
Nuclear materials science investigates how corrosion, irradiation, thermal ageing and mechanical load may affect materials properties and potentially degrade their performance.
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10 March 2020
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
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31 May 2021
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
A new working group will focus on HTGRs.
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22 March 2024
The nuclear energy sector employs a considerable workforce around the world, and with nuclear power projected to grow in countries with increasing electricity demand, corresponding jobs in the nuclea...
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25 October 2018
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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
The Contracting Parties to the Paris Convention met remotely on 16 October 2020 to discuss the final steps towards the ratification of the Protocols.
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4 November 2020
A total of 16 countries are parties to the Paris Convention.
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11 December 2023
NEA Director-General William D. Magwood, IV and senior staff met with the leading officials from the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan (M...
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23 November 2020
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
Professor Massimo Salvatores, well known for his contributions in the reactor physics and nuclear data fields, passed away in March 2020.
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12 May 2020
The NEA Expert Group on Non-radiological Public Health Aspects of Radiation Emergency Planning and Response (EGNR) provided input to the development of the recently launched World Health Organization...
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1 December 2020
Despite progress over the past decades, women remain under-represented in executive positions in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Female students tend to do very well in math and sci...
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15 June 2020
In today’s society, the population of men and women is essentially equal in terms of numbers. However, in the domain of science and technology, which is part of the same society, this is not the case...
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15 June 2020
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
“You can do it!” was the theme of the International Mentoring Workshop in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics held jointly by the NEA, the International Framework for Nuclear Energy Coop...
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4 August 2021
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 is a Java based software which can read mesh tallies output formats of several neutron transport codes and display them graphically.
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2 October 2020
MeshTal Viewer user manual
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25 November 2022
National programmes for radioactive waste management require very large amounts of data and information across multiple and disparate disciplines. These programmes tend to run over a period of many d...
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10 December 2018
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1 January 2000
For practical reasons, the consequences of nuclear reactor accidents are often measured in economic terms. Figures currently available, however, show significant discrepancies. For this reason, the N...
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1 January 2000
This report further explores some of the key elements presented in The Safety Culture of an Effective Regulatory Body (2016), commonly known as the NEA Green Booklet, and provides both an overview an...
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10 May 2021
Safety assessment is an interdisciplinary approach that focuses on the scientific understanding and performance assessment of safety functions as well as the hazards associated with a geological disp...
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18 September 2012
Nuclear legislation: Mexico
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19 September 2023
For the past several decades, the Nuclear Energy Agency Salt Club has been supporting and overseeing the characterisation of rock salt as a potential host rock for deep geological repositories. This ...
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22 May 2018
This publication provides an introduction to minor actinide nuclear properties and discusses some of the arguments in favour of minor actinide recycling, as well as the potential role of thermal reac...
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18 November 2013
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
Addressing the mental health impacts of radiological and nuclear emergencies
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28 May 2021
The NEA Expert Group on Non‑Radiological Public Health Aspects of Radiation Emergency Planning and Response (EGNR) is developing an operational approach for mitigating the mental health and psychosoc...
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5 August 2020
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21 June 2007
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13 July 2009
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
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25 May 2009
Thermodynamic data are important for the modelling of the chemical processes in the engineering part on nuclear waste repository systems (the "near-field" region), and also to describe the effect of ...
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3 September 2020
GEOTRAP is the OECD/NEA Project on Radionuclide Migration in Geologic, Heterogeneous Media carried out in the context of site characterisation and evaluation and safety assessment of deep repository ...
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8 January 1998
The NEA has started preparing its third Stakeholder Involvement Workshop which will focus on optimisation in decision-making.
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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
Since the accident of Chernobyl in 1986, many countries have intensified their efforts in nuclear emergency planning, preparedness and management. Experience from the NEA nuclear emergency exercises ...
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1 January 2000
Key concepts of radioactive waste management, such as safety, risk, reversibility and retrievability, carry different meanings for the technical community and for non-technical stakeholders. Similarl...
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15 April 2010
The NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) has underscored the environmental and ethical basis for geological disposal as well as its technical feasibility in a number of previous collecti...
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1 September 2008
Multi-physics Pellet Cladding Mechanical Interaction Validation (MPCMIV) Benchmark
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19 July 2022
The NEA organised a virtual workshop in collaboration with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) on 14-18 December 2020 to discuss the best regulatory practices that the nuclear sector can ad...
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23 December 2020
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26 November 2019
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
Multiphysics are simulations using computer applications or software to couple multiple physical events in order to predict or validate the physical real-world outcome.
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16 October 2020
The diversity in classification schemes across countries has restricted the possibility of comparing waste inventories and led to difficulties in interpreting waste management practices, both nationa...
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26 November 2020
Radioactive waste inventory data are an important element in the development of a national radioactive waste management programme since these data affect the design and selection of the ultimate disp...
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28 August 2017
Radioactive waste inventory data are an important element in the development of a national radioactive waste management programme since these data affect the design and selection of the ultimate disp...
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28 July 2016
Many countries have been performing a wide range of research on the partitioning and transmutation (P&T) of minor actinides and fission products. The aim is to provide greater flexibility in terms of...
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10 March 2010
Disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel in engineered facilities, or repositories, located deep underground in suitable geological formations is being developed worldwide as t...
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24 March 2009
NEA delegation participates in discussions at the Regulatory Information Conference in Washington D.C.
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27 March 2023
The NEA and the World Association of Nuclear Operators have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
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24 April 2023
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10 October 2008
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 CAEA discuss further enhancements to co‑operation
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27 January 2021
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 participated in COP 26 in Glasgow, United Kingdom, to shed light on nuclear energy’s role in addressing climate change.
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30 October 2021
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
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18 May 2020
The NEA participated in the COP 26 United Nations Climate Change Conference from 31 October to 12 November 2021 for dialogues on the role that nuclear energy could play in achieving the decarbonisati...
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31 October 2021
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
The brochure provides background information about the NEA.
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10 September 2018
On 19 April 2018, the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) organised a special high‑level session on the occasion of its 60-year anniversary.
The session opened with video remarks from the OECD Secretary‑Gene...
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19 April 2018
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
NEA conducts virtual missions to Canada, Japan, the Russian Federation and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
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2 September 2020
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27 September 2022
NEA Data Bank meeting with stakeholders in Russia, 2 December 2019
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2 December 2019
NEA Data Bank organises PHITS workshop in co‑operation with the Argentine National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA)
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8 April 2020
NEA Data Bank participating countries and years of accession
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17 June 2020
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
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
NEA Director‑General William D. Magwood, IV, met virtually with H.E. Hamad Al Kaabi, Permanent Representative of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and UA...
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4 June 2020
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12 August 2022
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9 May 2022
As the NEA continues to adapt to the new way of working, a series of "virtual missions" is being organised with member countries and key partners.
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1 July 2020
NEA Director‑General visits Brazil to discuss further enhancements to co‑operation, November 2018
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18 November 2019
NEA Expert Group on the Dose Limit for the Lens of the Eye launches survey
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8 April 2020
NEA forms Women in Nuclear Global Chapter
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30 January 2023
NEA Forum on Stakeholder Confidence updates
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25 February 2021
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
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
NEA high-level visit to Romania, 19‑20 February 2020
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4 March 2020
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
NEA International Mentoring Workshop in Science and Engineering, 2 October 2019
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13 November 2019
The latest NEA International Mentoring Workshop in Science, Engineering and Decommissioning, organised in co‑operation with the Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporatio...
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16 December 2019
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
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
NEA Monthly News Bulletin – April 2020
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8 April 2020
NEA Monthly News Bulletin – December 2019
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11 December 2019
NEA Monthly News Bulletin – February 2020
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6 February 2020
NEA Monthly News Bulletin – January 2020
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3 January 2020
NEA Monthly News Bulletin – July 2019
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9 July 2019
NEA Monthly News Bulletin – July 2020
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1 July 2020
NEA Monthly News Bulletin – June 2020
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4 June 2020
NEA Monthly News Bulletin – March 2020
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5 March 2020
NEA Monthly News Bulletin – May 2020
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6 May 2020
NEA Monthly News Bulletin – November 2019
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12 November 2019
NEA Monthly News Bulletin – October 2019
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9 October 2019
NEA Monthly News Bulletin – September 2019
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10 September 2019
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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1 January 2000
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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1 January 2000
This issue of NEA News was prepared in conjunction with the OECD Forum 2001 on “Sustainable development and the new economy”. It includes a range of individual contributions on the subject of nuclear...
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10 May 2001
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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14 November 2001
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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21 June 2002
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31 December 2003
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9 July 2003
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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17 December 2003
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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29 June 2004
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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31 December 2005
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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8 July 2005
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30 December 2005
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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29 June 2006
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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8 December 2006
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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28 June 2007
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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14 December 2007
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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31 December 2009
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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24 June 2009
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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18 December 2009
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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13 July 2010
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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15 December 2010
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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5 July 2011
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14 December 2011
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17 July 2012
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16 September 2013
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21 January 2014
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19 December 2014
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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29 July 2015
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22 February 2016
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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19 July 2016
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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20 March 2017
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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4 August 2017
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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13 February 2018
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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27 July 2018
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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1 February 2019
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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30 July 2019
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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28 May 2020
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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1 October 2020
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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15 July 2021
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
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1 January 1997
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1 January 1998
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1 January 1998
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1 January 1999
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1 January 1999
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
KORAD's 6th International Symposium on Safety Improvement & Stakeholder Confidence in Radioactive Waste Management, November 2019.
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6 December 2019
As a member of the Inter-Agency Committee on Radiological and Nuclear Emergencies (IACRNE), the NEA recently participated in the latest ConvEx-3 exercise held on 26-27 October 2021.
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3 November 2021
FIDES-II members hold meeting at Idaho National Laboratory
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7 November 2022
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28 February 2024
The modelling of the key process of radionuclide sorption is of great importance in assessing the performance or safety of deep and near-surface repositories for radioactive waste. The first phase of...
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4 May 2005
A central safety function of radioactive waste disposal repositories is the prevention or sufficient retardation of radionuclide migration to the biosphere. Performance assessment exercises in variou...
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4 May 2012
The Statute of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) takes the form of a Decision originally adopted by the Council of the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation on 20 December 1957 and subse...
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1 January 1995
NEA Steering Committee for Nuclear Energy, October 2019
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18 November 2019
This week the NEA Steering Committee for Nuclear Energy held its biannual meeting to review the main aspects of the NEA’s programme of work and co-operative activities. This was the first time that t...
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30 October 2020
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
NEA Thermodynamics of Advanced Fuels International Database updates
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25 January 2021
“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
Building on the discussions held in March and June 2021, the INEX-6 Preparatory Task Force met on 13 September 2021.
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5 October 2021
The NEA has tools and data bases for X
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4 December 2019
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
How do we encourage more women to enter the nuclear science and technology field?
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28 May 2020
The NEA held a WebChat with Dr Rita Baranwal, Assistant Secretary for the Office of Nuclear Energy in the United States Department of Energy (DOE).
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14 May 2020
The NEA held a WebChat H.E. Michał Kurtyka, Poland's Minister of Climate and 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24) President.
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15 June 2020
The NEA held a WebChat with H.E. Mohamed Al Hammadi, Chief Executive Officer of the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC).
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17 September 2020
The NEA hosted a WebChat with Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), on 15 October 2020. Watch here.
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12 October 2020
NEA Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework session at the Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 201) on 10 February 2021.
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12 April 2021
The NEA hosted a WebChat with Olivier Gupta, Director General of the French Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN), on 23 March 2020.
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25 March 2021
The NEA hosted a WebChat with Shawn Tupper, Associate Deputy Minister of Natural Resources Canada, on 25 November 2020.
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25 November 2020
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21 December 2023
NEA Workshop on Optimisation: Rethinking the Art of Reasonable, 13‑15 January 2020
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15 January 2020
Because nuclear issues are embedded in broader societal issues such as the environment, energy, risk management, health policy and sustainability, they can often generate considerable interest and co...
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16 October 2017
The NEA also provides technical secretariat services forGeneration IV International Forum (GIF), International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation (IFNEC) and Multinational Design Evaluation Pro...
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30 September 2020
The NEA is working with its member countries to promote gender balance and the development of female leaders in the nuclear energy sector so as to ensure a robust, diverse and sustainable nuclear wor...
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27 October 2021
On the occasion of this anniversary, the NEA has published a commemorative brochure that reflects on 20 years of IGSC work and traces the evolution of the concept of the safety case overall.
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29 January 2021
The NEA Working Group on Public Communication of Nuclear Regulatory Organisations (WGPC) held its bi-annual meeting on 4-6 May 2021 and celebrated its 20th anniversary.
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6 May 2021
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
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
This page will contain educational resources which have been prepared in the frame of the NEST by the Participants itself or by its Partners.
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20 April 2020
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
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
This NEST project aims to provide the necessary education and hands-on training component to the new multilateral initiative currently developed by NEA to strengthen fuel and material- related experi...
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2 February 2021
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
Nuclear legislation: Netherlands
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19 September 2023
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1 January 1991
Neutron noise analysis can be defined as the direct measurement of the kinetics of a nuclear core. This page describes some of the NEA's previous activities on neutron noise analysis in nuclear power...
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26 July 2021
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
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19 November 2004
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19 November 2004
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19 November 2004
The meetings took place in April 2024 in the United States.
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25 April 2024
The 2021 edition can be downloaded online.
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22 November 2022
The new interactive TDB electronic database a with links to registration.
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28 November 2019
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
Four new expert groups were established on 10 September 2020 to operate under the umbrella of the NEA Working Party on Information, Data and Knowledge Management (WP-IDKM).
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9 October 2020
Virtual kick-off meeting for the new joint project Experiments on Source Term for Delayed Releases (ESTER), 28-30 September 2020.
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9 October 2020
New Joint Project: Studsvik Material Integrity Life Extension (SMILE)
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26 January 2021
NEA Working Party on International Nuclear Data Evaluation Co-operation (WPEC) 50th Subgroup (SG50), 14-15 September 2020.
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9 October 2020
New NEA Expert Group on Comparison and Understanding of Dose Prognosis (EGDP) kicks off, 24 March 2020
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8 April 2020
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5 August 2020
The group met in Paris to discuss future activities.
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23 January 2024
New NEA reports on nuclear data evaluation
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5 August 2020
New NEA task force on partitioning and transmutation kicks off
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27 January 2021
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
New Publication of the joint evaluated fission and fusion nuclear data library, JEFF-3.3. Image: Robert Eastman/Shutterstock
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10 August 2020
New report and webinar on the supply of medical radioisotopes. Photo: Yok_onepiece/Shutterstock.
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2 December 2019
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
NEA Working Party on Information, Data and Knowledge Management (WP‑IDKM) kick‑off meeting, 15‑17 January 2020
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17 February 2020
National legislation: New Zealand
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25 April 2022
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20 February 2020
Nirex has responsibilities for nuclear waste management in the UK. The company’s top level scientific objectives are to maintain technical credibility in deep disposal, to gain public acceptance for ...
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1 January 1999
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1 January 1994
Technically, nuclear fission reactors in operation or being built can supply non-electricity products. However, while non-electrical applications have been considered since the very beginning of nucl...
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1 January 2004
Nuclear legislation: Norway
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25 April 2022
The tasks and duties of liaison officers are detailed in this
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26 May 2020
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30 November 2020
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
The impact of the 1986 Chernobyl accident called attention to the need to improve international harmonisation of the principles and criteria for the protection of the public in the event of a nuclear...
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1 January 1989
The Symposium on Nuclear Accidents: Liabilities and Guarantees, organised by the NEA in collaboration with the IAEA, took place in Helsinki, from 31 August to 3 September 1992. The meeting discussed ...
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1 January 1993
NEA workshop on the "Nuclear and Social Science Nexus: Challenges and Opportunities for Speaking Across the Disciplinary Divide", 12‑13 December 2019
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13 December 2019
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16 August 2004
In many countries, government R&D funding in the area of nuclear energy has been dramatically reduced or has disappeared altogether. At the same time, the profit margins of electricity generators hav...
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28 October 2004
Nuclear data refers to the probabilities, statistics and measurements of the physical interactions associated with atomic particles.
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16 December 2019
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1 January 1981
Nuclear data applications, verification and validation
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9 March 2020
Nuclear data covariance and assimilation
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9 March 2020
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9 March 2020
The NEA facilitates the international exchange of information on nuclear data evaluations, measurements, nuclear model calculations, validation and related topics via its Working Party on Internation...
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26 May 2021
Nuclear data fission physics
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9 March 2020