NEA/CSNI/R(2007)13
Following recommendations made at an “Exploratory Meeting of Experts to Define an Action Plan on the Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Codes to Nuclear Reactor Safety (NRS) Problems”,...
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28 January 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)11
The Steam Explosion Resolution for Nuclear Applications (SERENA) programme stems from concerns expressed by the Senior Group of Experts on Nuclear Safety Research Facilities and Programmes (SESAR/FAP...
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17 September 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)10
The main objective of ISP-47 was to assess the capabilities of lumped parameter (LP) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes in the area of containment thermal-hydraulics. Following the recommen...
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11 September 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)9
In 1998, the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) issued a report on Future Nuclear Regulatory Challenges. This report discussed the potential erosion of safety margins as an area for fu...
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1 January 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)8
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Human and Oganisational Factors (WGHOF) and the Halden Reactor Project (HRP) hosted a joint workshop titled “Future Contro...
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15 October 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)7/REV1
The Operating Plan describes the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) responsibility and organisation, overall scope of work and working methods, and is supplemented by the so-call...
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11 April 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)6
This report provides an overview of experimental facilities that can be used to address nuclear safety research issues in OECD member countries, and identifies priorities for organising international...
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1 January 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)5
In May 2002, an “Exploratory Meeting of Experts to Define an Action Plan on the Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Codes to Nuclear Reactor Safety Problems” was held in Aix-en-Provence...
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15 May 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)4
The Best-estimate Methods – Uncertainty and Sensitivity Evaluation (BEMUSE) programme promoted by the Working Group on Accident Management and Analysis (WGAMA) and endorsed by the Committee on the Sa...
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11 October 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)3
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is to an increasing extent being adopted in nuclear reactor safety analyses as a tool that enables specific safety relevant phenomena occurring in the reactor coola...
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1 January 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)1
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency has long recognised the importance of iodine behaviour and has organised workshops and international standard problems on the subject. In the meantime, experimental and...
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23 February 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2006)8
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI), at its meeting in June 2003, agreed to conduct a survey to collect information that help to identify common needs and area of potential co...
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24 May 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2006)7
Due to the importance of human and organisational performance on nuclear plant maintenance, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Special Experts’ Group on Human and Organisatio...
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5 April 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2006)6
The purpose of this report is to present in a concise form how some safety matters associated with currently operating light water reactors have been addressed. The issues discussed in this report ar...
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2 November 2006
NEA/CSNI/R(2006)5
This document is intended to provide regulators, their technical support organisations and industry with a concise review of existing fuel experimental data at reactivity-initiated accident (RIA) and...
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28 November 2006
NEA/CSNI/R(2006)2
The Best-estimate Methods – Uncertainty and Sensitivity Evaluation (BEMUSE) Programme, promoted by the Working Group on Accident Management and Analysis (WGAMA) and endorsed by the Committee on the S...
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19 June 2006
NEA/CSNI/R(2006)1
The Committee on Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Special Experts’ Group on Human and Organisational Factors (SEGHOF) was requested by the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Actions (CNRA) to exam...
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16 March 2006
NEA/CSNI/R(2005)10
The OECD/NEA Committee on Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) addressed the issue of modifications at a workshop on “Modifications at Nuclear Power Plants – Operating Experience, Safety Significan...
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1 December 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2005)9
In December 2000, the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) and the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) agreed to prepare a state-of-the art report addressing the pres...
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28 July 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2005)8
In 2002, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) requested the Working Group on the Integrity and Ageing of Reactor Components and Structures (WGIAGE) to prepare a programme of wo...
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27 July 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2005)7
At the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) meeting of June 2002, a proposal for an International Standard Problem on containment integrity (ISP 48) based on the NRC/NUPEC/Sandia t...
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11 October 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2005)5/VOL3
At the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) meeting in June 2002, the proposal for an International Standard Problem on containment integrity (ISP 48) based on the NRC/NUPEC/Sandia...
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6 September 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2005)5/VOL2
At the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) meeting in June 2002, the proposal for an International Standard Problem on containment integrity (ISP 48) based on the NRC/NUPEC/Sandia...
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6 September 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2005)5/VOL1
At the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) meeting in June 2002, the proposal for an International Standard Problem on containment integrity (ISP 48) based on the NRC/NUPEC/Sandia...
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6 September 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2005)3
In December 2000, the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) and the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) agreed to prepare a state-of-the art report addressing the pres...
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28 July 2005
The Working Party on Nuclear Emergency Matters (WPNEM) met on 3-5 November 2021. Discussions included how countries are continuing to learn from and adapt their emergency management arrangements in r...
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15 December 2021
The joint NEA/IAEA Uranium Group held its 57th meeting virtually on 3-5 November 2021.
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12 December 2021
NEA/CSNI/R(2005)1
The TMI-2 accident keeps providing unique full scale data giving opportunities to check the ability of the codes to model overall plant behaviour and to perform many sensitivity and uncertainty calcu...
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10 March 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2005)4
This document is the third in a series of the NEA’s Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Operating Experience (WGOE) technical notes on nuclear power plant (NPP) r...
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25 January 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2005)2
At the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) meeting of June 2002, a proposal for a benchmark on thermal fatigue in fluid mixing areas based on the test performed by the Commissaria...
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1 August 2005
To mark the tenth anniversary of the Chernobyl accident, the NEA Committee on Radiation Protection and Public Health published a concise report reviewing the current knowledge of the serious impacts ...
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1 January 1996
2 September 2021
9:00-12:00 JST, Online
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) launched the Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework in 2019.
The activities of the NEST Framework are expected to contribute to nuclear-related...
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29 July 2021
12 October 2021
15:00-18:00 JST, Online
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) launched the Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework in 2019.
The activities of the NEST Framework are expected to contribute to nuclear-related...
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29 July 2021
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11 January 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)10
Regulatory bodies are taking a growing interest in the issue of safety culture, and several are actively working to develop and implement approaches to maintaining oversight of licensee safety cultur...
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1 August 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)11
The NEA Working Group on Human and Organisational Factors (WGHOF) is tasked to improve the current understanding of human and organisational performance and the way in which this impacts upon nuclear...
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1 January 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)12
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Human and Organisational Factors (WGHOF) is tasked to improve the current understanding of human and organisational perfor...
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1 January 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)13
During the mid 1990s a task group was formed within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development/Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD/NEA) to exchange information on events involving computer-ba...
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5 January 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2008)14
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) has as a general mandate to advance the current understanding o...
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17 December 2008
NEA/CSNI/R(2012)6/VOL3
This report describes final prediction results by system analysis codes during the OECD/NEA ISP-50 exercise, targeting a 50% direct vessel injection (DVI) line break integral effect test performe...
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27 February 2012
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)1
Following the recommendations of a previous meeting held in Jeju, Korea on 6-8 November 2006, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) approved a proposal of the Working Group on I...
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13 August 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)2
This report documents the proceedings of a Committe on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) workshop on risk-informed piping integrity management. Hosted by the Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear (CS...
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23 September 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)3
This Phase II exercise was the first benchmarking of severe accident codes promoted by NEA in almost 20 years. The objective of the exercise was to perform a code benchmark on a well-defined plant (s...
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3 August 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)5
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) mandated the preparation of a SOAR with four main objectives:
- to assess the status of existing experimental data and analytical capabiliti...
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17 December 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)6
In 2000, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) approved the establishment of a Fire Incident Records Exchange Project on collection of data on fire events at nuclear power plant...
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24 September 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)7
This technical opinion paper represents the consensus of the Committe on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Human and Organisational Factors (WGHOF) on the state of research ...
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1 January 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)8
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) established the Task Group on Advanced Reactor Experimental Facilities (TAREF) in 2008 with the objective of providing an overview of facil...
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1 January 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)9
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) considered there was a need to review the state-of-the-art tech...
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14 December 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)10
The NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) authorised formation of a task group in January 2008 to examine Defence in Depth of Electrical Systems and Grid Interaction with nuclea...
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9 November 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)11
There is a growing interest from some nuclear regulatory bodies, as well as licensees, in methods and approaches that can be used to ensure that the licensee organisations are well structured and hav...
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3 December 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)12
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is to an increasing extent being adopted in nuclear reactor safety analyses as a tool that enables specific safety relevant phenomena occurring in the reactor coola...
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6 January 2010
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)13
The Best-estimate Methods – Uncertainty and Sensitivity Evaluation (BEMUSE) programme, promoted by the Working Group on Accident Management and Analysis (WGAMA) and endorsed by the Committee on the S...
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21 December 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)14
The workshop on Taking Account of Feedback on Sump Clogging was held at the OECD Conference Centre in Paris, France on 4-5 December 2008. It was organised under the auspices of the Committee on Nucle...
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8 January 2010
The Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) was established by the NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) in 2000 and serves as a platform for understanding stakeholder dialogue and discussi...
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18 January 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)5
The Workshop on Experimental Validation and Application of CFD and CMFD Codes to Nuclear Reactor Safety Issues, CFD4NRS-7 was the seventh in a series of workshops focusing on Computational Fluid Dyna...
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19 January 2022
Any long-term radioactive waste management project is likely to last decades to centuries. It requires a physical site and will impact in a variety of ways on the surrounding community over that whol...
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14 June 2007
Theme: The important role of early career nuclear graduates in fighting climate change
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has interrupted many aspects of everyday life, including the opportunity for...
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21 January 2022
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21 January 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2019)10
This report provides descriptions of the current status of PSA programmes in member countries; including basic background information, guidelines, various PSA applications, major results in recent st...
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3 November 2020
NEA/CSNI/R(2018)1
The mission of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Risk Assessment (WGRISK) is to advance understanding of probabilistic safety as...
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19 December 2018
NEA/CSNI/R(2017)5
The main objective of the Working Group on Risk Assessment (WGRISK) is to advance Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA) understanding and to enhance its use for improving the safety of nuclear instal...
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1 September 2017
NEA/CSNI/R(2014)16
The objective of the Digital System Reliability Failure Mode Taxonomy (DIGREL) task group, formed under the OECD/NEA Working Group on Risk Assessment (WGRISK), has been to develop a taxonomy of failu...
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16 February 2015
NEA/CSNI/R(2010)1
In 1986, a working group of the NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations issued a state-of-the-art report on water reactor fuel behaviour in design-basis accident (DBA) conditions. The re...
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23 April 2010
NEA/CSNI/R(2010)2
This document is an extension of the NEA/SEN/SIN/AMA(2006)2 report produced by Writing Group 3 on the extension of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to two-phase flow safety problems. Writing Group ...
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21 July 2010
NEA/CSNI/R(2010)3
In June 2005, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) agreed to set up an expert meeting on the German proposal concerning the THAI Project. The objectives of the project were to ...
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22 June 2010
NEA/CSNI/R(2010)4
The objective of the NEA’s Working Group on Fuel Cycle Safety (WGFCS) is to advance the understanding for both regulators and operators of relevant aspects of nuclear fuel cycle safety in member coun...
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24 November 2010
NEA/CSNI/R(2010)5
Since the time of the first loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA) experiments, which were largely conducted with fresh fuel, changes in fuel design, the introduction of new cladding materials and in partic...
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15 November 2010
NEA/CSNI/R(2010)6
The NEA Working Group on Fuel Safety (WGFS) is tasked with advancing understanding of fuel safety issues by assessing the technical basis for current safety criteria and their applicability to high b...
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15 November 2010
NEA/CSNI/R(2010)7
The NEA Working Group on Fuel Safety (WGFS) is tasked with advancing the current understanding of fuel safety issues by assessing the technical basis for current safety criteria and their applicabili...
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15 December 2010
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)2
Uncertainty in relation to several severe accident phenomena plays a major role in probabilistic safety analyses involving beyond-design-basis accident scenarios for nuclear power plants. The technic...
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26 January 2022
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26 January 2022
A NEA WebChat was held on 14 May 2020 with Dr Rita Baranwal, Assistant Secretary for the Office of Nuclear Energy in the United States Department of Energy (DOE).
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17 June 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/MBDAV/R(2019)1
Workshop Proceedings, Barcelona, Spain 28 January-1 February 2019
The computer code system PENELOPE (version 2018) performs Monte Carlo simulation of coupled electron-photon transport in arbitrary ma...
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2 September 2019
As the NEA continues to adapt to the new way of working, "virtual missions" are being organised with member countries and key partners.
Published date:
18 September 2020
New NEA reports on nuclear data evaluation
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5 August 2020
International Roundtable on the Final Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel: Summary Report
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11 August 2020
GNDS is a modern, collaborative, international, replacement for ENDF-6.
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8 July 2020
The NEA has released a new report with recommendations to unlock meaningful cost reductions for future nuclear new build construction projects.
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2 July 2020
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19 October 2020
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
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is having a major impact on the workforce around the world, from how people carry out their work under necessary social distancing rules to the unavailability of workers...
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4 May 2020
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has had significant impacts on the global economy and energy sector. It has also underlined the importance of electricity reliability and resilience during major d...
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24 June 2020
The NEA Data Bank Computer Program Services (CPS) has introduced a new single-user licensing scheme for codes distribution in order to improve the services provided to its end users, attract new code...
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3 November 2020
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4 November 2020
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24 November 2020
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30 November 2020
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
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30 November 2020
Nuclear data refers to the probabilities, statistics and measurements of the physical interactions associated with atomic particles.
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16 December 2019
CNRA/CSNI meetings, December 2020
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7 December 2020
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2 November 2020
NEA Expert Group on the Application of Robotics and Remote Systems in the Nuclear Back‑end (EGRRS) plenary meeting, 7 December 2020
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16 December 2020
NEA Data Bank training courses on state-of-the-art computer codes
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17 December 2020
NEA Working Party on Scientific Issues of Reactor Systems (WPRS) workshops, 7-15 December 2020.
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17 December 2020
Specialist Workshop on Advanced Measurement Method and Instrumentation for Enhancing Severe Accident Management in a Nuclear Power Plant
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17 December 2020
NEA Clay Club annual meeting, 23 September 2020.
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16 December 2020
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21 December 2020
On 1 January 2021, Bulgaria became the newest member of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and its Data Bank.
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4 January 2021
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21 December 2020
International criticality safety benchmark evaluation
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22 January 2021
New Joint Project: Studsvik Material Integrity Life Extension (SMILE)
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26 January 2021
New NEA task force on partitioning and transmutation kicks off
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27 January 2021
NEA and CAEA discuss further enhancements to co‑operation
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27 January 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
NEA Working Party on Information, Data and Knowledge Management (WP‑IDKM) plenary meeting, 26-27 January 2021.
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29 January 2021
NEA Thermodynamics of Advanced Fuels International Database updates
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25 January 2021
The first edition of the Fundamentals of International Nuclear Law (FINL) course was held on 16-18 February 2021 with a diverse international group of 41 professionals and graduate students from 27 c...
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18 February 2021
Specific ion interaction theory (SIT) coefficients now included in the TDB e-database
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30 November 2020
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20 November 2020
The sixth International Nuclear Emergency Exercise (INEX-6)
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1 March 2021
The Crystalline Club held its first technical workshop focusing on “Research Methods and Modern Measuring Equipment Used for Site and Rock Characterisation”, with three sessions held on 11, 18 and 25...
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31 March 2021
The NEA Working Party on Nuclear Liability and Transport (WPNLT) held a virtual workshop on “The Qualification of Nuclear Substances and Nuclear Liability” on 29-30 March 2021.
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31 March 2021
The NEA High-Level Group on Low-Dose Research (HLG-LDR) held its fifth plenary meeting on 23 March 2021.
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31 March 2021
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31 March 2021
The NEA is organising series of webinars to explore the use of disruptive technologies in nuclear applications and discuss the future shape of nuclear safety systems.
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31 March 2021
Addressing the mental health impacts of radiological and nuclear emergencies
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16 April 2021
The NEA Working Group on the Safety of Advanced Reactors (WGSAR) held its biannual meeting via video conference on 21-23 April 2021, welcoming a new member representing Poland’s National Centre for N...
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28 April 2021
The NEA Committee on Radiological Protection and Public Health (CRPPH) held its annual meeting via videoconference on 21-23 April 2021.
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28 April 2021
NEA Working Group on Safety Culture (WGSC) biannual meeting, 27-29 April 2021.
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30 April 2021
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30 April 2021
NEA Task Group on Protective Measures Handbook (TGPMH) meeting, 29 April 2021.
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30 April 2021
Statement on the passing of Dr Peter Lyons
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3 May 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
International Radiological Protection School (IRPS) Advisory Board meeting, 25 May 2021.
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28 May 2021
MDEP VVER Working Group (VVERWG) meeting, 25-26 May 2021.
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28 May 2021
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31 May 2021
The importance of stakeholder involvement was one of the key messages highlighted by the NEA at the Virtual Nuclear Power Plants Expo & Summit (NPPES), hosted by the Nuclear Industry Association of T...
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3 June 2021
NEA Expert Group on Archiving for Radioactive Waste Management Activities (EGAR) meeting, 31 May - 1 June 2021.
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8 June 2021
The NEA participated in the Meeting of Senior Representatives of Organisations in Formal Relations with the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) on 2 June 2021.
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8 June 2021
The NEA High-Level Group on Low-Dose Research (HLG-LDR) held its fifth plenary meeting on 23 March 2021.
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9 June 2021
Preparatory meeting for Thermodynamic Characterisation of Fuel Debris and Fission Products Based on Scenario Analysis of Severe Accident Progression at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (TCOFF)...
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27 May 2021
A chat with Todd Allen, Chair and Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan, and co-lead of the NEST Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) project.
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10 June 2021
CNRA/CSNI meetings, May-June 2021.
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10 June 2021
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16 June 2021
Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) held a virtual symposium on 1-3 June 2021.
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14 June 2021
Working Party on Scientific Issues of Advanced Fuel Cycles (WPFC) meeting, 8 June 2021.
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30 June 2021
The INEX-6 Preparatory Task Force met on 28 June 2021 to continue exchanges on objectives, methodologies and timelines for the exercise.
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1 July 2021
A new NEA report on Ensuring the Adequacy of Funding for Decommissioning and Radioactive Waste Management was launched in an online expert roundtable on 18 June 2021, where the NEA presented analysis...
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1 July 2021
Nearly 100 experts from the NEA Analysis of Information from Reactor Buildings and Containment Vessels of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (ARC-F) Project and the Preparatory Study on Fuel Deb...
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3 August 2021
The NEA hosted an online expert roundtable discussion on 24 June 2021 on safety case projects of three different types of disposal facilities in member countries.
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1 July 2021
In partnership with the International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation (IFNEC), the NEA held a webinar on 19 July 2021 to understand how various national and regional taxonomies and sustainab...
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21 July 2021
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) hosted an expert roundtable discussion on 29 July 2021 to present and discuss findings from a new report on the role of nuclear long-term operation (LTO) in decarbonis...
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5 August 2021
A chat with Stephen King, PhD student and NEST Fellow.
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5 August 2021
The NEA has established the Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy, which entered into force on 28 January 2021.
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29 January 2021
A global nuclear science and engineering commencement, 27 August 2020.
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27 August 2020
The NEA Expert Group on the Dose limit for the Lens of the Eye (EGDLE) met on 24 September 2021.
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4 October 2021
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 Working Group on the Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) held its annual meeting virtually on 13-15 September 2021 to discuss its ongoing work and activities related to potential acc...
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1 October 2021
NEA Working Party on the Legal Aspects of Nuclear Safety (WPLANS) meeting, 19-20 May 2021
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26 May 2021
The Clean Energy Ministerial’s Nuclear Innovation: Clean Energy Future (NICE Future) initiative and the International Youth Nuclear Congress (IYNC) hosted a webinar on Earth Day, 22 April 2021, on Po...
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29 April 2021
The NEA Expert Group on International Recommendations (EGIR) met for the first time on 8 October 2021 to set out its proposed work plan and discuss initial findings for the review.
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27 October 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...
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29 October 2021
NEA Forum on Stakeholder Confidence held its annual plenary meeting on 12-14 October 2021.
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19 October 2021
The NEA spoke with Professor Okamoto, who leads the NEST ARTERD project on the NEST Framework and its objectives.
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2 November 2021
NEA Working Group on Human and Organisational Factors (WGHOF) held its biannual meeting on 25-26 October 2021.
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3 November 2021
The NEA Expert Group on Comparison and Understanding of Dose Prognosis (EGDP) held its first meeting on 14 October 2020 via video conference.
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3 November 2021
The NEA held its 142nd Steering Committee meeting in October 2021.
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4 November 2021
The NEA hosted an expert roundtable discussion on 8 October 2021 to reflect on twenty years of Regulators' Forum (RF) work and trace the evolution of the roles and responsibilities of nuclear safety ...
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25 October 2021
The NEA Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) and the NEA Working Group on Public Communication of Nuclear Regulatory Organisations (WGPC) organised a joint workshop “How to deal with misinformation?...
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30 November 2021
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 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
Treated water currently stored at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station: Message from Director-General Magwood
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13 April 2021
The NEA Working Group on Safety Culture (WGSC) held its biannual meeting on 23-25 November 2021 to review the ongoing work on safety culture and leadership in nuclear regulators.
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8 December 2021
NEA Expert Group on the Application of Robotics and Remote Systems in the Nuclear Back-end (EGRRS) discusses how to improve the regulatory framework for robotic and remote systems applications.
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14 December 2021
The webinar "Research and international dialogue in technology nuclear power - What role for Italy?", was held on 17- 18 November 2021.
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14 December 2021
WGPC held its biannual plenary meeting on 9-10 November 2021 to discuss its ongoing work and the progress made in activities on public trust and risk communication.
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29 November 2021
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
The 2021 SMR Prize Competition brought together 28 students representing different academic and research organisations participating in the NEA Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Small M...
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2 September 2021
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
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law. It provides readers with authoritative and comprehensive information o...
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NEA/CSNI/R(2014)9
The Fukushima Dai-ichi accident triggered discussions about the significance of external hazards and their treatment in safety analyses. In addition, stress tests results have shown vulnerabilities a...
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NEA/CSNI/R(2015)12
On 28-30 April 2014, the CSNI Working Group on Risk Assessment (WGRISK) held a workshop on Fire Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) in Garching, Germany. The meeting was attended by nearly 60 partici...
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NEA/CSNI/R(2019)16
Two important lessons learnt from the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (NPP) accident were: 1) there can be significant interactions between multiple co-located radiological sources (...
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19 April 2021
NEA/CSNI/R(2012)2
Probabilistic Safety Assessment/Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PSA/PRA) for new and advanced reactors is recognised as an important approach to achieve improved safety and performances of new nuclear...
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Pittsburgh, United States
PHYSOR attracts international experts from all segments of the nuclear industry and scientific community, including vendors, utilities, laboratories, and universities. The theme for this year’s confe...
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Seattle, United States
The goal of the 14th International Conference on Radiation Shielding and 21st Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division [ICRS 14/RPSD-2022] is to introduce participants to ne...
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Sacramento, United States
The conference serves as the main forum for the international community of experimentalists, theorists, evaluators and users of nuclear data to come together to review progress and identify outstandi...
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31 January 2022
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31 January 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2011)4
The Best-estimate Methods – Uncertainty and Sensitivity Evaluation (BEMUSE) programme, promoted by the Working Group on Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) and endorsed by the Committee on t...
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28 March 2011
NEA/CSNI/R(2011)13
The primary role of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Working Group on Human and Organisational Factors (WGHOF) is to improve the current understanding and treatment of human and organisational fa...
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1 January 2012
NEA/CSNI/R(2011)12
In this document, the general coding guidelines for the OECD NEA ICDE Project (International Common Cause Failure Data Exchange) are presented with explanations and appendices for each analysed compo...
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21 February 2012
NEA/CSNI/R(2011)11
A status report by the NEA’s Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) on iodine behaviour published in February 2007 concluded that although the understanding of iodine behaviour in co...
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11 January 2012
NEA/CSNI/R(2011)10
The Studsvik Cladding Integrity Project (SCIP) was initiated in 2004 as an OECD/NEA project with Studsvik Nuclear as the operating agent. Since its start, 27 signatories from 13 countries joined the ...
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19 January 2012
NEA/CSNI/R(2011)9
The main goal of the ISP-49 on Hydrogen Combustion is to identify the contemporary level of the numerical tools in the area of hydrogen combustion simulation under the conditions typical for safety c...
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18 January 2012
NEA/CSNI/R(2011)8
In December 2008, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) approved a proposal of the Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) to conduct a round...
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19 January 2012
NEA/CSNI/R(2011)7
The NEA Committe on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI), noting that different approaches to determining cladding embrittlement criteria produced nearly identical limits, asked the Working Gro...
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1 January 2011
NEA/CSNI/R(2011)6
In 2009, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) approved a proposal by the Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) to assess current knowledge...
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13 October 2011
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)15
The present report has been prepared by the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Fuel Safety (WGFS) and covers the following technical aspects:
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1 January 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2011)14
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency developed an initiative to form writing groups of experts with the specific task of assessing the maturity of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes for nuclear reaco...
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1 February 2012
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3 February 2022
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25 February 2022
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7 February 2022
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7 February 2022
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7 February 2022
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7 February 2022
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7 February 2022
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7 February 2022
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7 February 2022
Many different estimates for the cost of radioactive waste disposal in geological repositories have been published. This study, aimed at the general reader, illustrates why the published cost estimat...
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1 January 1993
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10 February 2022
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11 February 2022
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
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11 February 2022
Insights from Leaders in Nuclear Energy shares personal insights through a series of in-depth conversations between the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Director-General and leading figures in the sector. ...
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15 January 2019
Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Director-General William D. Magwood, IV sat down with Director-General Wanner and Chief Nuclear Officer Harrison during the NEA-IAEA-WANO Human Capital Workshop in June 20...
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16 December 2019
Nuclear power plants are used extensively as base load sources of electricity. This is the most economical and technically simple mode of operation. In this mode, power changes are limited to frequen...
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1 June 2011
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
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 ...
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29 April 2021
Experimental facilities in nuclear energy are key to addressing safety issues. The recent loss of some critical infrastructure, from facilities to industry expertise, has therefore become a concern f...
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8 September 2021
Understanding the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is important for safe and timely decommissioning of the reactors. This objective, together with the development of better compu...
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28 September 2021
The decisions made about protective actions of people and the environment in situations involving exposure to ionising radiation have tended to be driven by subjective judgements about the health ris...
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26 February 2021
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3 September 2021
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire. Ses lecteurs bénéficient d’informations exhaustiv...
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6 December 2021
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)3
When looking for a validation experiment for CFD application to reactor simulation for either design or safety studies, it appears that available data often suffer from a lack of local measurements, ...
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17 February 2022
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
東日本大震災とそれに続く福島第一原子力発電所事故から10年が経ち、多くの教訓が得られたが、まだ多くの課題が残っている。
この報告書は福島第一原子力発電所の現況と、事故後の日本の当局並びに国際社会の対応について報告するもので、事故に起因する多面的な問題を政策決定者と一般市民双方が理解することに役立つであろう。それには、災害復旧努力、損害賠償、原子力安全、原子力規制、放射線防護、廃炉作業、放射性廃棄物...
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28 July 2021
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) acts as a centre for informed exchange of knowledge and experience regarding stakeholder interaction and public participatio...
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20 January 2022
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5 February 2007
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21 February 2022
The international radiological protection community performed a major status review of the situation around the damaged Chernobyl reactor on the 10-year anniversary of the accident. Since then, studi...
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10 June 2020
The international radiological protection community performed a major status review of the situation around the damaged Chernobyl reactor on the 10-year anniversary of the accident. Since then, studi...
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10 June 2020
The international radiological protection community performed a major status review of the situation around the damaged Chernobyl reactor on the 10-year anniversary of the accident. Since then, studi...
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10 June 2020
The international radiological protection community performed a major status review of the situation around the damaged Chernobyl reactor on the 10-year anniversary of the accident. Since then, studi...
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10 June 2020
The international radiological protection community performed a major status review of the situation around the damaged Chernobyl reactor on the 10-year anniversary of the accident. Since then, studi...
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10 June 2020
The international radiological protection community performed a major status review of the situation around the damaged Chernobyl reactor on the 10-year anniversary of the accident. Since then, studi...
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10 June 2020
The international radiological protection community performed a major status review of the situation around the damaged Chernobyl reactor on the 10-year anniversary of the accident. Since then, studi...
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10 June 2020
The international radiological protection community performed a major status review of the situation around the damaged Chernobyl reactor on the 10-year anniversary of the accident. Since then, studi...
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10 June 2020
The international radiological protection community performed a major status review of the situation around the damaged Chernobyl reactor on the 10-year anniversary of the accident. Since then, studi...
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10 June 2020
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7 March 2022
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
The OECD/NEA Working Group on the Characterisation, the Understanding and the Performance of Argillaceous Rocks as Repository Host Formations, namely the “Clay Club”, examines the various argillaceou...
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2 September 2005
The NEA Clay Club has been gathering the key geoscientific characteristics of the various argillaceous formations that are – or have been – studied in NEA member countries in the context of radioacti...
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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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After the Fukushima nuclear accident, many activities were initiated in the countries with nuclear energy to assess the robustness of nuclear power plants with respect to earthquakes, tsunamis and fl...
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FISPACT-II (currently at release version 5.0) is an enhanced multi-physics platform providing a wide variety of advanced simulation methods and employing the most up to date (TENDL-2019, ENDF/B-VIII....
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30 March 2022
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30 March 2022
The aim of the benchmark is to improve understanding and modelling of pellet-cladding mechanical interaction (PCMI) amongst NEA member organisations. This is achieved by comparing PCMI predictions of...
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23 March 2022
NEA/RWM/R(2019)5
This document is the fifth of the five interrelated reports of the Radioactive Waste Repository Metadata Management (RepMet) Initiative. The series of reports discusses the key aspects of data and re...
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1 March 2022
NEA/RWM/R(2019)3
This document is the third of the five interrelated reports of the Radioactive Waste Repository Metadata Management (RepMet) Initiative. The series of reports discusses the key aspects of data and re...
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1 March 2022
NEA/RWM/R(2019)2
This document is the second of the five interrelated reports of the Radioactive Waste Repository Metadata Management (RepMet) Initiative. The series of reports discusses the key aspects of data and r...
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1 March 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
NEA/RWM/R(2019)4
This document is the fourth of the five interrelated reports of the Radioactive Waste Repository Metadata Management (RepMet) Initiative. The series of reports discusses the key aspects of data and r...
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1 March 2022
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6 April 2022
NEA/RWM/R(2020)1
The Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) was created in 2000 under a mandate from the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) to facilitate the sharing of inte...
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26 February 2021
National radioactive waste management programmes are in various phases of siting facilities and rely on distinct technical approaches for different categories of waste. In all cases, it is necessary ...
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Under the oversight of the Nuclear Development Committee (NDC), the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) continues to work on collecting and analysing the latest technical evidence and industrial experience t...
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11 February 2022
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12 April 2022
Texte de la Convention du 31 janvier 1963 complémentaire à la Convention de Paris du 29 juillet 1960, amendée par le Protocole additionnel du 28 janvier 1964 et par le Protocole du 16 novembre 1982.
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12 April 2022
The 2004 Protocol to the BSC improves the existing regime by requiring that significantly more compensation be made available to supplement that which is to be provided for under the Paris Conventi...
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12 April 2022
Full text of the Convention of 31st January 1963 Supplementary to the Paris Convention of 29th July 1960, as amended by the additional Protocol of 28th January 1964 and by the Protocol of 16th Novemb...
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12 April 2022
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
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12 April 2022
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12 April 2022
Les milieux de la radioprotection à l'échelle internationale ont dressé un important bilan de la situation aux alentours du réacteur endommagé de Tchernobyl à l'occasion du dixième anniversaire de l'...
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31 December 2003
One of the key areas in fuel safety is the analysis of fuel behaviour under reactivity-initiated accident conditions. Reactivity-initiated accident fuel rod codes have been developed for a significan...
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13 April 2022
Nuclear legislation: Austria
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14 April 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)4
The investigation conducted in the last 15 years on different aspects of Source Term worldwide, and particularly in the context of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in the form of projects and the Work...
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14 April 2022
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14 April 2022
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
放射性廃棄物は、医療・産業・研究・発電など幅広い活動から発生する。このような廃棄物はすべて、人の健康と環境の保護を最優先して安全に管理しなくてはならない。何十年にも及ぶ研究活動を経て、国際科学界は今では、高レベル放射性廃棄物を深地層最終処分場(DGR)に定置することが安全かつ効果的であると確信するに至っている。
各国政府は、それぞれが最良であると信じるエネルギー・環境政策を実施する絶対的な権利と責...
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14 April 2022
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14 April 2022
Collected sources of primary documentation for reactor physics benchmarks.
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14 April 2022
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Zoom - REGISTRATION CLOSED
To meet the overall safety objectives and to achieve a balanced plant design, natural hazards have to be considered in the design of nuclear installations. Deriving the strength of such events from a...
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15 April 2022
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15 April 2022
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The NEA held a virtual workshop on the best regulatory practices in In-Service Inspection (ISI) in the nuclear sector on 11-14 April 2022.
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20 April 2022
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20 April 2022
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28 April 2022
Online training course
OpenMC is a community-developed Monte Carlo neutron and photon transport simulation code. It is capable of performing fixed source, k-eigenvalue, and subcritical multiplication calculations on models...
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21 April 2022
The NEA Division of Nuclear Law (DNL) works on a suite of publications, workshops and symposia to advance cooperation and understanding of nuclear liability.
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21 April 2022
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21 April 2022
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) invited policy makers, regulators, practitioners and researchers to participate in an online event to launch its newly issued report Regulatory Implementation of the E...
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25 April 2022
Nuclear legislation: Luxembourg
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25 April 2022
Nuclear legislation: Ireland
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25 April 2022
Nuclear legislation: Iceland
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25 April 2022
National legislation: Romania
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25 April 2022
Nuclear legislation: Norway
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25 April 2022
National legislation: New Zealand
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25 April 2022
The International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) released the first version of the Database for the International Handbook of Evaluated Criticality Safety Benchmark Experime...
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25 April 2022
The NEA Division of Nuclear Law (DNL) helps create sound national and international legal regimes required for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
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25 April 2022
National legislation: Greece
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25 April 2022
Nuclear legislation: Italy
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25 April 2022
6 February 2007
Château de la Muette, OECD, Paris, France
The Nuclear Law Committee (NLC) celebrated its 50th anniversary in February 2007. To mark the occasion, a colloquium was organised on 6 February 2007 in conjunction with the committee's regular meeti...
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6 February 2007
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 Nuclear Law Bulletin (NLB) welcomes submissions from professionals and academics involved in or interested in the field of nuclear law.
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26 April 2022
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7 September 2004
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Photo: Shutterstock, Matej Kastelic.
An International Seminar on Nuclear Law and the Protection of the Environment was held on 5-9 July 2004 at the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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Bratislava, Slovak Republic
The Third International Workshop on the Indemnification of Damage in the Event of a Nuclear Accident aims to explore the practical application of international nuclear liability instruments and the p...
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20 October 2017
Improves the existing regime by requiring that more money be made available to compensate more victims for a broader range of damages.
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26 April 2022
Improves the existing regime by requiring that significantly more compensation be made available to supplement that which is to be provided for under the Paris Convention.
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26 April 2022
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Online course
Application period is closed
The 2022 Fundamentals of International Nuclear Law (FINL) has been designed by the NEA to provide a high-level, introductory review of the central aspects of internationa...
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26 April 2022
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The Fundamentals of International Nuclear Law (FINL) is a new online course developed by the NEA to provide a high-level, introductory review of the central aspects of international nuclear law in a ...
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16 February 2021
The Contracting Parties to the Paris and Brussels Supplementary Conventions have decided to organise a ceremony for the deposit of the instruments of ratification in December 2021, with the Protocols...
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16 July 2021
The NEA will host the Sixth International Conference on Geological Repositories (ICGR-6) on 4-8 April 2022 in Helsinki, Finland.
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24 February 2022
Digital transformation: Opportunities and challenges for the nuclear sector, 27-28 May 2021.
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31 May 2021
The third session of the IRPS was held on 23-27 August 2021 with 37 participants from 20 countries and 3 international organisations.
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2 September 2021
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 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
On 1 January 2021, Bulgaria became the 34th member of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and its Data Bank. On the occasion of this accession, a special ceremony was held online today to welcome Bu...
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19 January 2021
The NEA launched an initiative together with the Poland’s Ministry of Climate and Environment and the International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation (IFNEC) to collaborate on issues of common...
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27 January 2021
A webinar was organised jointly by the NEA and the International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation (IFNEC) on 24 February 2022 to discuss strategies and considerations for the back-end of the ...
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26 February 2021
The NEA is organising series of webinars to explore the use of disruptive technologies in nuclear applications and discuss the future shape of nuclear safety systems.
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29 April 2021
The Steering Committee for Nuclear Energy, the highest decision making body at the Agency in which all 34 member countries are represented, met on 15-16 April 2021 to review the main aspects of the N...
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23 April 2021
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
EXPERT ROUNDTABLE: Progress in HLW management and the sustainability of nuclear energy, 12 November 2020
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13 November 2020
The FSC recently established a new group, Stakeholder Involvement in Decommissioning and Legacy Management (SIDLM), in response to member country needs regarding the methods and best practices to eng...
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4 October 2021
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
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
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Washington DC, United States
The 2021 International Nuclear Law Congress has been postponed to 2022. As the principal INLA gathering, held every two years, the Congress serves as the leading international conference for represen...
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27 April 2022
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6 November 2007
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12 May 2006
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23 March 2007
This NEST project addresses the main issues of i‑graphite management, including characterisation, decontamination and disposal.
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29 April 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2015)7
CODAP is the continuation of the 2002-2011 “OECD/NEA Pipe Failure Data Exchange Project” (OPDE) and the work by the Stress Corrosion Cracking Working Group of the 2006–2010 “OECD/NEA SCC and Cable Ag...
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4 May 2015
NEA/CSNI/R(2014)6
The Component Operational Experience, Degradation & Ageing Programme (CODAP) Topical Report on FAC of Carbon Steel and Low Alloy Steel Piping includes a primer on the environmental and operational fa...
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20 January 2015
NEA/CSNI/R(2015)6
This Topical Report from the Component Operational Experience, Degradation and Ageing Programme (CODAP) addresses operating experience insights on two types of piping systems that have the following ...
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26 March 2015
NEA/CSNI/R(2017)3
This third topical report is concerned with the effectiveness of pressure boundary component reliability and integrity management (RIM). Specifically, this report addresses operating experience insig...
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15 January 2017
NEA/CSNI/R(2018)2
Structural integrity of piping systems is important for safety and operability of nuclear plants. In recognition of this, information on degradation and failure of piping components and systems is co...
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24 May 2018
NEA/CSNI/R(2018)12
Several NEA member countries have agreed to establish the Component Operational Experience, Degradation and Ageing Programme (CODAP) to encourage multilateral co-operation in the collection and analy...
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4 April 2019
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OECD Conference Center, Château de la Muette, Paris / Hybrid meeting
The Joint Evaluated Fission and Fusion File (JEFF) Nuclear Data Library Project is a collaboration between NEA Data Bank participating countries. The JEFF library combines the efforts of its differen...
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21 April 2022
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28 October 2022
Washington DC, USA
The conference will provide a forum for ministers, policymakers, senior officials and experts to engage in high-level dialogue on the role of nuclear energy in the transition to clean energy sources,...
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9 May 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2009)19
Several OECD member countries agreed to establish the OECD/NEA Piping Failure Data Exchange Project (OPDE) to encourage multilateral co-operation in the collection and analysis of data relating to de...
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5 November 2009
NEA/CSNI/R(2010)8
An NEA specialists’ meeting “Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to Effective Consideration of Human and Organisational Factors in Event Analysis and Root Cause Analysis” was held in Paris, France on...
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8 March 2011
NEA/CSNI/R(2010)9
The Task on the Core Exit Temperature (CET) thermocouple effectiveness in Accident Management (AM) was initiated based on a discussion held by the NEA’s Committe on the Safety of Nuclear Installation...
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26 November 2010
NEA/CSNI/R(2010)10/VOL1
A joint workshop of the Working Group on the Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) and the Working Group on Risk Assessment (WGRISK) on implementation of severe accident management (SAM) measu...
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3 December 2010
NEA/CSNI/R(2010)10/VOL2
A joint workshop of the Working Group on the Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) and the Working Group on Risk Assessment (WGRISK) on implementation of severe accident management (SAM) measu...
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3 December 2010
NEA/CSNI/R(2010)11
Severe accident management guidelines (SAMGs) increase focus on containment integrity after some progression in the course of a severe accident. This change in priorities is made according to criteri...
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18 January 2011
NEA/CSNI/R(2010)12
In 2007, the NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) completed a study on Nuclear Safety Research in OECD Countries: Support Facilities for Existing and Advanced Reactors (SFEAR) ...
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1 January 2011
NEA/CSNI/R(2010)13
The idea of a benchmark study on risk-informed in-service inspection (RI-ISI) was initially developed within a subgroup of the ENIQ Task Group on Risk. The preliminary JRC project proposal was endors...
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26 January 2011
NEA/CSNI/R(2010)15
Two subjects – stress corrosion cracking (SCC) and degradation of cable insulation – were selected as the focus of the SCC and Cable Ageing Project (SCAP) due to their relevance for plant ageing asse...
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13 April 2011
NEA/CSNI/R(2011)5
The OECD/NEA-Vattenfall T-Junction Benchmark was initiated to test the ability of state-of-the-art computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes to predict the important parameters affecting high-cycle th...
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12 May 2011
NEA/CSNI/R(2011)3
In 1998, the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) issued a report on future nuclear regulatory challenges which discussed the potential erosion of safety margins as an area for further r...
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30 November 2011
NEA/CSNI/R(2011)2
The Operating Plan describes CSNI responsibility and organisation, overall scope of work and working methods, and is supplemented by the so-called CSNI Activity Report, which contains a description o...
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19 April 2011
NEA/CSNI/R(2011)1/REV1
This Joint Strategic Plan for the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) and the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) takes into account the evolving status of the nucle...
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25 February 2013
NEA/CSNI/R(2015)10
Due to the potential safety significance of HEAF events the NEA initiated a project to provide an in-depth investigation on such events in NEA member states. The general objective of the study was to...
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9 June 2015
NEA/CSNI/R(2015)11
This report documents a study performed on a set of ICDE events related to heat exchangers. The events studied here had been collected in the ICDE database. Organisations from Canada, Germany, Japan,...
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1 April 2013
NEA/CSNI/R(2015)13
This report was written by members of the Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) of the NEA, and the members of the metal subgroup were responsible for developing...
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22 December 2015
NEA/CSNI/R(2015)14
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Risk Assessment (WGRISK) (formerly PWG5) established in 1996 a Task Group to review the status and maturity of methods use...
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16 December 2015
NEA/CSNI/R(2015)15
This workshop, held in Pavia, Italy on 4-6 February 2015, was the fourth in a series of NEA meetings (Tokyo, Japan, August 1999, Jeju, Korea, November 2006, Lyon, France, April 2008), dedicated to pr...
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7 September 2015
NEA/CSNI/R(2015)16
The workshop took place in Brugg, Switzerland on 24-26 February 2014. It was conducted with participation of a number of invited key speakers from academic research and a range of industries, includi...
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20 October 2015
NEA/CSNI/R(2015)17
In the light of the TEPCO Fukushima accident, this report documents a study performed on a set of common-cause failure (CCF) events due to external factors, meaning that not only storms and hurricane...
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20 October 2015
NEA/CSNI/R(2015)18
In 2012, following a proposal from Japan, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) decided to initiate a joint project to conduct a study of the accident progression for the Fukush...
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1 March 2015
NEA/CSNI/R(2015)19
The objective of this joint WGAMA-WPNEM activity was to benchmark software tools used to estimate consequences of accidents at nuclear facilities. Two aspects of accident consequences were considered...
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1 January 2016
NEA/CSNI/R(2014)1
This NEA WGIAGE workshop was held in Prague, Czech Republic on17-19 September 2013, with the objective to present and discuss the state-of-the-art techniques for the integrity assessment of concrete ...
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30 January 2015
NEA/CSNI/R(2014)3
This report initially provides a brief overview of the main features of a PWR, BWR, CANDU and VVER reactors. It also provides an overview of the ex-vessel corium retention (core catcher) and a genera...
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23 May 2014
NEA/CSNI/R(2014)4
Following the CFD4NRS workshops held in Garching, Germany (September 2006), Grenoble, France (September 2008) and Washington D.C., USA (September 2010), this workshop, held in Daejeon, Korea on 10-12...
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14 February 2014
NEA/CSNI/R(2014)5/ADD1
A round robin exercise (RRE) on Improving the Robustness Assessments Methodologies for Structures Impacted by Missiles (IRIS-2012) was instituted jointly by IRSN, France and CNSC, Canada based on exp...
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30 June 2014
NEA/CSNI/R(2014)5
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) approved in December 2008 a proposal of the Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) to conduct a round ...
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27 August 2014
NEA/CSNI/R(2014)7
The main objectives of this status report on FCVSs in OECD countries, as defined by the Working Group on Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA), were to: compile the status on the implementatio...
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2 July 2014
NEA/CSNI/R(2014)8
At the 14th plenary meeting of the Working Group on Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA), a proposal for a status paper on hydrogen generation, transport and mitigation under severe accident ...
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20 January 2015
NEA/CSNI/R(2014)10
The impact of leaking fuel rods on the operation of nuclear power plants and the practices of handling leaking fuel has been reviewed by the CSNI Working Group on Fuel Safety (WGFS) in order to promo...
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18 July 2014
NEA/CSNI/R(2014)11
In May 2002, an exploratory meeting of experts to define an action plan on the application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Codes to nuclear reactor safety problems was held in Aix-en-Provence, ...
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12 February 2015
NEA/CSNI/R(2014)12
Following recommendations made at an exploratory meeting of experts to define an action plan on the application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) codes to nuclear reactor safety (NRS) problems, h...
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16 January 2015
NEA/CSNI/R(2014)14
The objective of the Post-BEMUSE Reflood Model Input Uncertainty Methods (PREMIUM) Benchmark is to progress on the issue of the quantification of the uncertainty of the physical models in system ther...
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23 February 2015
NEA/CSNI/R(2014)15
The SERENA Project Integration Report summarises the outcome of a broad range of activities conducted in the framework of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Steam Explosion Resolution for Nuclear A...
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1 February 2015
NEA/CSNI/R(2019)2/ADD1
This is a companion document to the final report of the COSSAL project. It includes appendices which address participant responses to a questionnaire, the data of the problem statement on the large-s...
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16 August 2019
NEA/CSNI/R(2019)2
In the face of severe accident scenarios with melted core material, such as those that occurred at Three Mile Island-2 in 1979 and at Fukushima Daiichi in 2011, the integrity assessment of primary ci...
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16 August 2019
NEA/CSNI/R(2004)21
The Third International Conference on Fatigue of Reactor Components held in Seville, Spain on 3-6 October 2004 was co-organised by the EPRI, the US NRC and the OECD NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuc...
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5 January 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2004)22
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) workshop on “Seismic Input Motions Incorporating Recent Geological Studies” was held in Tsukuba, Japan on 15-17 November 2004, and was host...
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14 February 2005
NEA/CSNI/R(2004)24
At its annual meeting in December 1999, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) issued a recommendation to set up an international collaborative project in the field of thermal-hy...
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1 December 2004
NEA/CSNI/R(2004)23
The focus of the Material Scaling (MASCA) Project was to investigate in detail the chemical behaviour of corium in contact with structural materials, with emphasis mainly on steel. This report provid...
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1 November 2004
NEA/CSNI/R(2007)15
The Material Scaling (MASCA) Project investigated in-vessel phenomena during a severe accident. In particular, it addressed the influence of the chemical composition of the molten corium on the heat ...
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1 June 2007
NEA/CSNI/R(2019)1
Seismic hazards remain an important factor that nuclear power plant designers and operators worldwide must take into account. Therefore, the Working Group on the Integrity and Ageing of Components a...
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3 June 2019
NEA/CSNI/R(2018)11
This is a summary report by the Hydrogen Mitigation Experiments for Reactor Safety (HYMERES) project on the PANDA and MISTRA experiments.
Phase 1 of the Project, between 2013 and 2016, focused on imp...
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23 November 2018
NEA/CSNI/R(2018)10
One of the major conclusions of this workshop was that simulation of electrical systems has not been adequately discussed at the international level despite the fact that it is used more and more fre...
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19 February 2019
NEA/CSNI/R(2018)8
The number of ageing nuclear power plants (NPPs) is increasing in NEA member countries. Accordingly, maintenance programmes, in-service inspection and testing of structures, systems and components im...
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6 December 2018
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17 May 2022
Nuclear Data Sensitivity Tool (NDaST), aims to provide rapid feedback on the effect of changes to nuclear data on integral benchmarks.
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17 May 2022
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20 May 2022
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1 June 2022
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21 October 2022
Vienna, Austria
The IAEA International Conferences on Topical Issues in Nuclear Installation Safety (TIC) are organised periodically bringing together nuclear safety regulators, plant designers and operators, techni...
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1 June 2022
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1 July 2022
OECD headquarters, Paris XVI
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1 June 2022
Nuclear Energy Data is the Nuclear Energy Agency's annual compilation of statistics and country reports documenting nuclear power status in NEA member countries and in the OECD area.
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15 June 2020
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8 July 2022
Reims, France
The current energy supply crisis is reprioritising energy projects and accelerating plans for nuclear power development. Furthermore, it requires creating resilient nuclear energy systems for which t...
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13 August 2021