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 brochure provides background information about the NEA.
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10 September 2018
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 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
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18 May 2020
The three-day event was held at the ESIX University in Cherbourg, France with 15 female university and graduate students.
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14 December 2022
The 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
NEA and CNIC announced plans for collaborative efforts to help ensure the supply of medical radioisotopes.
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31 October 2023
NEA and CAEA discuss further enhancements to co‑operation
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27 January 2021
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
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10 October 2008
The NEA and the World Association of Nuclear Operators have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
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24 April 2023
NEA delegation participates in discussions at the Regulatory Information Conference in Washington D.C.
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27 March 2023
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Multinational Design Evaluation Programme (MDEP) begins operation under a new framework agreement.
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4 February 2022
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26 November 2019
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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25 May 2009
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13 July 2009
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21 June 2007
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
Addressing the mental health impacts of radiological and nuclear emergencies
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28 May 2021
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
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
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
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
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
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
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1 January 2000
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
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
“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 and Women in Nuclear (WiN) Globalco-organised a mentoring session for young professionals in Tokyo, Japan
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8 June 2022
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
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
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
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
FIDES-II member assembled at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) in Mito, Japan.
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23 November 2023
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
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
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
A total of 16 countries are parties to the Paris Convention.
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11 December 2023
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
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 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
A new working group will focus on HTGRs.
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22 March 2024
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31 May 2021
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
The NEA held its second Risk Communication Training Course on 13-16 November in Abu Dhabi.
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4 December 2023
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5 September 2008
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31 March 2021
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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20 July 2001
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4 May 2012
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
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
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1 January 1998
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
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 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
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
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 ...
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22 June 2007
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 ...
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1 January 1999
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
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
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...
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1 January 1994
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
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
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
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30 April 2003
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
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
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13 April 2004
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
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
NEA Working Party on the Legal Aspects of Nuclear Safety meeting, 9-10 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 Deep Geological Repositories and Nuclear Liability (WPDGR) meeting, 25-26 June 2020.
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1 July 2020
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10 October 2006
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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19 December 2011
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
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
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
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5 July 2010
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17 September 2004
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13 May 2005
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1 January 1999
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22 December 2016
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12 February 2010
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2 December 2004
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6 December 2006
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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26 February 2007
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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11 August 2020
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7 March 2002
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
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
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
CNRA/CSNI meetings, May-June 2021.
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10 June 2021
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22 July 2021
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
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
Improving gender balance in nuclear
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8 March 2023
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10 November 2011
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10 November 2005
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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17 June 2011
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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29 May 2007
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
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
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20 November 2001
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24 June 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
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
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31 March 2009
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6 October 2008
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1 January 1999
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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16 September 2010
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12 April 2006
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9 June 2010
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
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
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1 January 2000
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12 May 2010
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7 December 2000
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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11 August 2020
- 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
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
Project members held a meeting to discuss the activities.
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16 April 2024
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
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14 June 2002
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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4 October 2017
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13 June 2017
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
Joint NEA-IAEA meeting on electrical power systems, 2‑5 December 2019
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5 December 2019
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 NEA Data Bank Nuclear Data Service (NDS) organised the Joint Evaluated Fission and Fusion (JEFF) Nuclear Data Week (NDW) on 25-29 April 2022.
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20 May 2022
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
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31 May 2005
JEF/EFF Based Nuclear Data Libraries; P.Vontobel, S. Pelloni (December 1987).
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26 December 1987
JEF-2.2 Radioactive Decay Data; NEA Data Bank (August 1994).
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1 January 1994
JEF-1 Scattering Law Data; J.Keinert, M. Mattes (IKE 6 147), (September 1984).
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26 September 1984
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
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 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
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1 January 1998
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1 January 1999
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
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
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1 January 1997
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1 January 1999
NEA webinars explore a common understanding of optimisation as an approach to decision making.
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8 February 2023
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
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29 July 2015
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
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
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
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
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 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
ISNL 2023 gathered 60 graduate students and professionals from across the world.
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11 September 2023
International Roundtable on the Final Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel: Summary Report
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11 August 2020
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
ICSBEP, SINBAD AND IRPhEP Technical Review Group meetings, October 2021.
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25 October 2021
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
International Nuclear Law Essentials (INLE) course took place on 4-8 March.
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19 March 2024
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
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
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1 January 1998
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
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
International Mentoring Workshop in Spain
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26 October 2022
The 2021 edition contains data from 169 experimental series that were performed at 57 nuclear facilities.
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13 December 2022
FACE project members met on 28-30 June 2023 in Paris, France.
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24 July 2023
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
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
Present Status of Minor Actinide Data
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1 January 1999
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
Delayed Neutron Data for the Major Actinides
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11 October 2002
Plutonium-239 Fission Cross-section Between 1 and 100 keV
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1 January 1996
Thermal Scattering Law S(α,β): Measurement, Evaluation and Application
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13 March 2020
U-238 Capture and Inelastic Cross-Sections
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1 January 1999
Co-ordinated Evaluation of Plutonium-239 in the Resonance Region
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12 March 2020
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20 December 2013
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7 October 2011
Meeting Nuclear Data Needs for Advanced Reactor Systems
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13 March 2014
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
Actinide Data in the Thermal Energy Range
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1 January 1996
Uranium-235 Capture Cross-section in the keV to MeV Energy Region
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7 October 2011
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
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
Covariance Data in the Fast Neutron Region
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7 October 2011
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
Nuclear Data for Improved LEU-LWR Reactivity Predictions
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29 November 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
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
Generation of Covariance Files for Iron-56 and Natural Iron
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1 January 1996
Neutron Activation Cross-section Measurements from Threshold to 20 MeV for the Validation of Nuclear Models and Their Parameters (Volume 19)
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12 December 2005
Epithermal Capture Cross-Section of U-235
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1 January 1999
Status of Pseudo-Fission-Product Cross-Sections for Fast Reactors
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1 January 1998
Effects of Shape Differences in the Level Densities of Three Formalisms on Calculated Cross-Sections
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1 January 1998
Cross-section Fluctuations and Self-shielding Effects in the Unresolved Resonance Region
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1 January 1996
Processing and Validation of Intermediate Energy Evaluated Data Files
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28 December 2000
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1 January 1998
Nuclear Models to 200 MeV for High-Energy Data Evaluations
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1 January 1998
Evaluation Method of Inelastic Scattering Cross-sections for Weakly Absorbing Fission-product Nuclides
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21 September 2001
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
International criticality safety benchmark evaluation
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22 January 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
NEA workshop addresses the importance of a secure supply chain of medical radioisotopes to save lives.
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30 November 2023
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1 January 1994
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
The second Roundtable on Final Disposal of High‑level Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel,
7 February 2020
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7 February 2020
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5 August 2020
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1 July 2020
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6 December 2019
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24 November 2020
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
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
The NEA Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety established an Expert Group on Criticality Excursion Analysis in 2001 to explore the performance of various transient codes to evaluate criticality...
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17 July 2009
L’expérience des projets de démantèlement de centrales nucléaires laisse entendre que l’on pourrait simplifier ces opérations si l’on y accordait davantage d’attention au moment de la conception ou p...
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16 April 2010
Integral Data Test of JEF-1. Fission Product Cross Sections; A.J. Janssen, H. Gruppelaar, R.J. Heijboer, N. Karouby-Cohen, L. Martin-Deidier, G. Rimpault and M. Salvatores. (ECN-176), (November 1985)...
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26 November 1985
Insights from the NEST Framework: A chat with Vera Verkhoturova, Project Leader of the NEST i‑graphite Radioactive Waste Management project
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17 February 2022
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
A chat with Stephen King, PhD student and NEST Fellow.
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5 August 2021
Insights from the NEST Framework: A chat with Lea Zimmermann, NEST Fellow
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5 October 2021
Insights from the NEST Framework: A chat with Larissa Shasko, PhD student and NEST Fellow.
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6 September 2021
A chat with Ethan Robert Kirkby, NEST Fellow
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22 April 2022
Ahmad Sleiman, a PhD student in neurotoxicology at IRSN, talks about his NEST Framework Fellowship.
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10 October 2023
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
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
William D. Magwood IV, Director-General of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), sat down with Rumina Velshi, President and Chief Executive Officer of the CNSC, on 17 January 2020. Ms Velshi has extensive...
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16 June 2020
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29 May 2020
This report reviews how some of the innovative nuclear-fission technologies being developed today attempt to address the challenges facing nuclear energy. It suggests some areas for collaborative res...
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8 August 2002
Innovations in nuclear safety thermal-hydraulics
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26 June 2023
Innovation has been a driving force in the successful deployment of nuclear energy and remains essential today for its sustainable future. As nuclear energy is an attractive option for ensuring diver...
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21 February 2007
L'innovation a été un élément majeur dans le déploiement réussi de l'énergie nucléaire et demeure essentielle aujourd'hui pour son avenir durable. Dans la mesure où l'énergie nucléaire est une option...
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21 February 2007
Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) held a virtual symposium on 1-3 June 2021.
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14 June 2021
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1 January 1995
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1 January 1995
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20 April 2004
Index to the JEF-1 Nuclear Data Library, Volume II, General Purpose File (July 1985).
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26 July 1985
Index to the JEF-1 Nuclear Data Library, Volume I, General Purpose File (July 1985).
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26 July 1985
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16 December 2009
The Second International Workshop on the Indemnification of Nuclear Damage was held in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, from 18 to 20 May 2005. The workshop was co-organised by the OECD Nuclear Energy Ag...
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12 July 2006
The Workshop on the Indemnification of Damage in the Event of a Nuclear Accident, organised by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency in close co-operation with the French authorities, was held in Paris from...
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12 March 2003
The Fourth International Workshop on the Indemnification of Damage in the Event of a Nuclear Accident, 8‑10 October 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal.
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18 November 2019
Pierre Strohl, former Deputy Director-General of the NEA, has passed away.
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30 December 2022
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1 January 1988
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1 January 1983
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1 January 1991
The concept of improving nuclear safety versus maintaining it has been discussed at a number of nuclear regulators meetings in recent years. National reports have indicated that there are philosophic...
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15 October 2002
TCOFF-2 members discuss future activities.
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10 July 2023
Thermodynamic databases and accident prevention
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24 February 2023
NEA Expert Group on the Application of Robotics and Remote Systems in the Nuclear Back-end (EGRRS) discusses how to improve the regulatory framework for robotic and remote systems applications.
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14 December 2021
The NEA hosted the 32nd meeting of the ISOE Management Board.
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18 January 2023
The NEA convened a second high-level working meeting on improving the gender balance in nuclear energy on 11-12 February 2021.
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12 February 2021
The NEA Expert Group on Recovery Management (EGRM) held a meeting on 6 May 2021.
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7 May 2021
Ensuring that nuclear installations are operated and maintained in such a way that their impact on public health and safety is as low as reasonably practicable has been and will continue to be the co...
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3 May 2001
A common theme throughout the series of NEA regulatory guidance reports, or “green booklets”, is the premise that the fundamental objective of all nuclear safety regulatory bodies is to ensure that n...
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30 May 2011
A common theme throughout the series of NEA regulatory guidance reports, or “green booklets”, is the premise that the fundamental objective of all nuclear safety regulatory bodies is to ensure that n...
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2 April 2009
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
On 11-12 October 2023, the NEA Task Group on Improving the Gender Balance in the Nuclear Sector (GB-TG) met in Paris to discuss ongoing work and future activities.
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24 November 2023
“Improving Cross-disciplinary and Transversal Skills for the Severe Accidents Community” approved by NEST Management Board.
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18 December 2023
NEA Expert Group on the Use of Real-Time Platforms (EGRT) held its kick-off meeting on 12 May 2021.
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19 May 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
Un nombre significatif d’installations nucléaires devra être démantelé dans les prochaines décennies. Dans ce contexte, les pays membres de l’AEN accordent de plus en plus d’importance à l’implicatio...
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14 June 2007
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15 June 2004
Defence in depth (DiD) is a concept that has been used for many years alongside tools to optimise nuclear safety in reactor design, assessment and regulation. The 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power...
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28 January 2016
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident has had an impact on the development of nuclear power around the world. While the accident was followed by thorough technical assessments of the saf...
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6 April 2017
De tous les acteurs institutionnels qui opèrent dans le domaine de la gestion à long terme des déchets radioactifs, c'est peut-être les autorités de sûreté qui ont renouvelé leur rôle de la manière l...
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20 October 2003
Dans le domaine de la gestion des déchets radioactifs, les dernières années ont vu émerger l’autorité de sûreté comme un acteur central aux yeux de la société civile. Cette étude montre comment les a...
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31 December 2013
La notevole esperienza internazionale acquisita negli ultimi venti anni dimostra che gli impianti nucleari possono essere disattivati e smantellati (decommissioning) in sicurezza alla fine del loro e...
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3 April 2010
ICSBEP, SINBAD AND IRPhEP Technical Review Group meetings
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18 November 2019
The Technical Review Groups for both projects met at the NEA headquarters on 3-7 April 2023.
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24 April 2023
This report from the NEA Working Group on Human and Organisational Performance establishes a common understanding around the terms human performance (HP), organisational performance (OP), and human a...
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10 October 2022
NEA Working Group on Human and Organisational Factors (WGHOF) meeting in Palaiseau, France, 16‑17 October 2019.
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18 November 2019
NEA Working Group on Human and Organisational Factors (WGHOF) biannual meeting, 27‑29 October 2020
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29 October 2020
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1 December 2015
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31 December 2013
The CRPPH held its annual meeting on 4-6 April 2023 at the NEA premises in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
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21 April 2023
The NEA organised a virtual workshop on 7 October 2021 to explore the opportunities and challenges associated with High-temperature reactors for industrial heat applications.
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8 November 2021
Reducing industrial carbon emissions is one of the most difficult challenges on the path to net zero by 2050 due to the magnitude of greenhouse gas emissions from the industrial sector and technical ...
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16 June 2022
The NEA Expert Group on Innovative Structural Materials (EGISM) organised a workshop on 19-21 October 2021 together with the Spanish Center for Energy, Environmental and Technological Research (CIEMA...
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3 November 2021
Independent safety regulation has been a hallmark of the global nuclear power sector from its beginnings. Industry and government have long understood the importance of a predictable and adaptable re...
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7 April 2022
Members of the Expert Group on comparison and understanding of Dose Prognosis (EGDP) met on 5-6 October 2022
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25 October 2022
Heavy liquid metals such as lead or lead-bismuth have been proposed and investigated as coolants for fast reactors since the 1950s. More recently, there has been renewed interest worldwide in the use...
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26 January 2024
As part of the development of advanced nuclear systems, including accelerator-driven systems (ADS) proposed for high-level radioactive waste transmutation and generation IV reactors, heavy liquid met...
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31 May 2007
This handbook makes international guidance on estimating decommissioning costs more accessible by compiling material from two key reports: the International Structure for Decommissioning Costing (ISD...
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8 February 2024
Peer reviews are a standard co-operative OECD working tool that offer member countries a framework to compare experiences and examine best practices in a host of areas. The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency...
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8 December 2014
Graphical comparison of JEF-1 with EXFOR cross section data; Y. Nakajima. (November 1986).
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26 November 1986
French Ministry for Energy Transition and OECD Nuclear Energy Agency to hold joint conference in Paris.
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26 July 2023
The main objective of national energy policies in OECD countries is to ensure the availability of secure and economic supplies with minimal environmental impact. The means of achieving security and c...
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31 March 2004
NEA and French Ministry for Energy Transition hosted Roadmaps to New Nuclear conference.
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29 September 2023
L'objectif essentiel des politiques énergétiques des pays de l'OCDE est d'assurer la sécurité d'approvisionnement au meilleur coût tout en respectant l'environnement. Les moyens mis en oeuvre pour at...
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2 April 2004
Plant life management is becoming an increasingly important topic both in nuclear power plant operations and in international discussions on the role of nuclear energy. As in many other aspects of nu...
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1 January 1999
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13 December 2018
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
NEA International Nuclear Law Essentials (INLE), 17‑21 February 2020
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4 March 2020
Despite the pandemic hindering international activities, the Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy was launched in January 2021 and made steady progress throughout the yea...
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21 January 2022
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
Ce livre, préparé par des experts des pays membres de l'AEN, contient des données et des analyses relatives à la gestion et à la prolongation de la durée de vie des centrales nucléaires. Il couvre le...
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28 November 2006
L'intérêt pour l'énergie nucléaire va croissant dans de nombreux pays en raison de sa capacité d'accroître la sécurité d'approvisionnement énergétique et de réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de se...
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13 June 2007
L’AEN a organisé en avril 2002 un atelier sur la “Gestion des échelles de temps dans le cadre de l’évaluation de sûreté en phase post-fermeture” de stockages de déchets radioactifs en formation géolo...
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1 March 2004
D'importantes quantités d'uranium appauvri ont été produites par suite des activités d'enrichissement effectuées surtout aux Etats-Unis et en Fédération de Russie. Les pays qui en ont en stock ont do...
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22 August 2001
GEOTRAP – the OECD/NEA Project on Radionuclide Migration in Geologic, Heterogeneous Media – was carried out in the context of site evaluation and safety assessment of deep repository systems for long...
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1 March 2002
Radioactive waste is associated with all phases of the nuclear fuel cycle as well as the use of radioactive materials in medicine, research and industry. For the most hazardous and long-lived waste, ...
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24 September 2010
Various long-term radioactive waste management options have been considered in order to protect humans and the environment both now and in the future. Most experts worldwide agree that disposal in en...
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25 February 2005
When preparing the safety case for a deep geological repository of radioactive waste, the integration of wide-ranging information from multidisciplinary sources is a complex task. This has provided t...
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1 June 2004
Disposal in engineered facilities built in stable, deep geological formations is the reference solution for permanently isolating long-lived radioactive waste from the human biosphere. This managemen...
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13 March 2012
The concept of removing long-lived radioactive wastes from the human environment by disposal in deep geological repositories was developed several decades ago. In the intervening years, research effo...
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1 January 1999
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1 January 2000
Generation IV International Forum (GIF) updates
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2 December 2020
General Description of Fission Observables: JEFF Report 24; NEA Data Bank (June 2014).
The Joint Evaluated Fission and Fusion (JEFF) Project is a collaborative effort among member countries of the Da...
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1 June 2014
The GB-TG discussed the latest data, actions and objectives as part of their mission to improve gender balance in the nuclear energy sector.
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10 October 2022
Female scientists and engineers pioneered the nuclear and radiological fields, with leaders and innovators such as Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Lise Meitner, among many others, establishing the foundat...
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8 March 2023
In underground repositories for radioactive waste, significant quantities of gases may be generated as a result of several processes. The potential impact of gas generation, accumulation and migratio...
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20 April 2001
The assessment of the long-term safety of radioactive waste repositories includes examining natural or human disruptive events and evaluating their impact. This report reviews the main issues raised ...
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31 December 1996
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1 January 1996
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear safety research projects
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4 March 2020
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident: Message from Director-General Magwood
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11 March 2022
Much has been learnt in the ten years since the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and the subsequent accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, but significant challenges still remain.
This ...
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3 March 2021
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29 July 2005
The objective of the symposium "From Thermodynamics to the Safety Case", organised jointly by the NEA TDB and Sorption Projects, was to present and discuss the principal outcomes of these two project...
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12 March 2012
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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17 March 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
For many politicians and members of the public, the very long life of some of the radio-nuclides in radioactive waste is an issue of particular importance in terms of its ultimate disposal. The devel...
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29 May 2006
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
In the field of long-term radioactive waste management, projects to construct repositories normally last from decades to centuries. Such projects will inevitably have an effect on the host community ...
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12 January 2015
L’un des nombreux enseignements tirés au sujet de la sûreté nucléaire au fil du temps est que les aspects humains sont tout aussi importants que les enjeux techniques de l’exploitation nucléaire. Si ...
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5 April 2024
The "Red Book", jointly prepared by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was first published in 1965 and has since grown to be a recognised world re...
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13 September 2006
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20 June 2001
Le présent rapport expose une position consensuelle sous la forme d’une Opinion collective du Comité de la gestion des déchets radioactifs (RWMC) de l’Agence de l’OCDE pour l’énergie nucléaire. Il tr...
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8 January 1995
The NEA participated in the 14th Clean Energy Ministerial in Goa, India.
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25 July 2023
Members of the NEA Working Group on Leadership and Safety Culture (WGLSC) discussed ongoing activities at a meeting in Budapest.
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12 April 2024
An evaluation of the occurrence of fluid flow through faults and fractures is of primary importance for the performance assessment of radioactive waste repositories located in argillaceous settings.
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4 January 1998
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29 February 2016
Countries around the world continue to implement safety improvements and corrective actions based on lessons learnt from the 11 March 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. This ...
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29 February 2016
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1 January 1992
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4 February 2002
The NEA Data Bank organised its second online training session on FISPACT-II from 18 to 28 October 2021. Facilitated by the code developers at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, the course a...
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2 November 2021
The influence of national context on nuclear safety culture was the focus of the country‑specific forum held on 23‑24 January 2018 by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in Stockholm, Sweden, in co‑opera...
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25 January 2018
The first QUENCH-ATF joint project test was successfully completed by the KIT team on 17 July 2022.
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5 August 2022
The benchmark will predict the Critical Heat Flux (CHF).
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22 November 2023
The second Country‑Specific Nuclear Safety Culture Forum held on 6‑7 March 2019 by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in Helsinki, Finland, in co‑operation with the World Association of Nuclear Operator...
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8 March 2019
Decommissioning of both commercial and R&D nuclear facilities is expected to increase significantly in the coming years, and the largest of such industrial decommissioning projects could command cons...
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18 August 2016
Ce rapport de synthèse sur le Financement du démantèlement : éthique, mise en œuvre, incertitudes a été rédigé en s’appuyant sur la littérature récente et sur les informations présentées lors des réu...
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28 August 2007
This NEA Policy Brief provides a concise outline of the current outlook for final disposal of radioactive waste in NEA member countries. It describes the challenges, context, stakeholders and potenti...
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30 July 2020
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29 May 2007
The workshop was aimed at providing a structured forum whereby implementors, regulators and scientists could interact, contribute to the advancement of the state of the art in this area, discuss the ...
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5 January 1997
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25 February 2021
The OECD/NEA Working Group on the Characterisation, the Understanding and the Performance of Argillaceous Rocks as Repository Host Formations for the disposal of radioactive waste (known as the "Clay...
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28 November 2003
Safety assessments of disposal sites for radioactive waste involve analyses of potential releases of radionuclides from the disposed waste and subsequent transport to the human environment. An import...
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19 January 2000
L’implication des parties prenantes, notamment par le dialogue et la délibération, peut améliorer la qualité et la durabilité des décisions prises par les pouvoirs publics. Cette publication offre au...
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6 December 2005
Fast Reactor Benchmark Tests on the JEF-1 Evaluated Nuclear Data File; H. Takano and E. Sartori, NEA Data Bank, (October 1985).
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26 October 1985
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8 March 2002
NEA Working Group on External Events (WGEV) meeting, 14-18 September 2020.
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9 October 2020
NEA Working Group on External Events (WGEV) meeting, 1-5 March 2021.
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24 March 2021
Electricity provision touches upon every facet of life in OECD and non-OECD countries alike, and choosing how this electricity is generated whether from fossil fuels, nuclear energy or renewables aff...
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29 October 2018
Some 100 international experts convened in New Jersey, U.S for the Workshop on Extended Storage and Transportation of Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste from Current and Future Reactor Technologies.
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21 December 2023
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5 January 1979
Forty nuclearexperts came together to explore the latest developments in preparations for the LTO beyond sixty years of existing nuclear power plants.
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27 March 2024
Exploratory Meeting on Improving the Gender Balance in Nuclear Energy, 10-11 December 2019
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11 December 2019
Around 50 delegates from 22 countries and 2 international organisations gathered on 6-7 June 2023 for the 73rd CSNI meeting.
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14 June 2023
The NEA Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety (WPNCS) held its bi-annual meetings in June 2023
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24 July 2023
Updates from the NEA Working Group on Reactor Oversight
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18 March 2024
CSNI and CNRA held their biannual meetings and a joint session at the NEA headquarters.
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10 June 2022
Delegates from nuclear law-related NEA bodies discussed current and future activities.
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22 April 2024
The fourth FACE meeting brought together experts to Cologne, Germany.
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27 February 2024
Expert groups on structural and fuel materials meet to advance materials science activities
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24 February 2023
This report provides an overview of experimental facilities that can be used to carry out nuclear safety research for sodium fast reactors and identifies priorities for organising international co-op...
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15 April 2011
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31 December 2010
The ICSBEP Technical Review Group of over 65 international technical experts met remotely for the first time on 19-23 October 2020.
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4 November 2020
Un « dossier de sûreté » est la synthèse des preuves, analyses et arguments qui permettent de quantifier et de justifier que le dépôt de déchets radioactifs en formation géologique restera sûr après ...
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5 May 2009
Since the beginning of the 1990s, the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has offered its member countries a forum for improving efficiency and effectiveness in nuclear emergency management, focusing in...
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31 December 2008
The NEA has a long tradition of expertise in the area of nuclear emergency policy, planning, preparedness and management. Through its activities in this field, it offers member countries unbiased ass...
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7 September 2018
In case of a nuclear emergency, countries need to be well prepared to manage a crisis situation. In order to help countries improve their emergency planning, preparedness and management, the OECD Nuc...
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27 April 2001
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26 February 2018
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8 February 2011
Under the Paris Agreement, OECD countries agreed to aim for a reduction of their greenhouse gas emissions sufficient to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre...
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25 January 2019
This joint report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) is the eighth in a series of studies on electricity generating costs. As policy makers work to ensure th...
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31 August 2015
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18 May 2010
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17 November 2015
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) first published in 2000 Nuclear Education and Training: Cause for Concern?, which highlighted significant issues in the availability of human resources for the nu...
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4 April 2012
The NEA Co‑operative Programme for the Exchange of Scientific and Technical Information Concerning Nuclear Installation Decommissioning Projects (CPD) held its Technical Advisory Group (TAG) meeting ...
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3 November 2021
The Expert Group on Small and Modular Reactors (EGSMR) continues to make progress with its forthcoming report
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8 July 2022
NEA’s Working Party on the Technical, Environmental, and Safety Aspects of Decommissioning and Legacy Management gathered for a workshop on 29 November to 1 December 2022 in Paris.
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13 December 2022
Fourth Country-Specific Safety Culture Forum brings together operators, regulators, local governments, international observers.
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21 December 2023
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30 June 2003
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4 December 2001
One of the main challenges facing radiological protection experts is how to integrate radiological protection within modern concepts of and approaches to risk governance. It is within this context th...
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26 October 2005
Since 2002, the NEA has been actively facilitating the detailed discussion of the evolving system of radiological protection in an Asian context. Its work in this area has included four previous conf...
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24 September 2010
The evolution of the system of radiological protection is of great interest to governments and regulatory authorities, in particular in Asia. In this context, the Japanese government hosted a series ...
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12 August 2009
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31 December 2008
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31 March 2011
The development of new radiological protection recommendations by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) continues to be a strategically important undertaking, both nationally...
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9 February 2004
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28 February 2011
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9 May 2001
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1 January 1997
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7 July 2005
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1 January 1998
Les données nucléaires sont essentielles au développement et à l'application des sciences et techniques nucléaires. Etant donné qu'un grand nombre de spécialistes en données nucléaires sont récemment...
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1 January 2000
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31 August 2010
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1 January 1993
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1 January 2000
L'idée d'isoler de l'environnement humain les déchets radioactifs à vie longue en les stockant dans des dépôts profonds remonte à plusieurs décennies. Depuis, les recherches réalisées dans le monde o...
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1 January 2000
Eurochemic was the first joint undertaking of the European Nuclear Energy Agency. The company was established in December 1957 by the governments of thirteen European countries to develop internation...
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1 January 1996
La Société Eurochemic fut la première entreprise commune de l'Agence européenne pour l'énergie nucléaire, créée en décembre 1957 par les gouvernements de 13 pays européens pour développer la coopérat...
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1 January 1996
Confidence among both technical experts and the public in the safety of deep geologic repositories for radioactive waste is a key element in the successful development of the repositories. This repor...
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23 May 2002
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2 September 2020
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2 September 2020
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2 September 2020
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2 September 2020
Environmental remediation activities in uranium mines and mills have become increasingly important in the last few decades due to the large number of facilities which have been taken out of operation...
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14 February 2002
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9 September 2009
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26 February 2007
The workshop was organized in Paris, on 1st-2nd September 1994, in co-operation with the OECD Environment Directorate. The focus was the concept of deep geological disposal and the associated non-tec...
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1 January 1995
Environmental activities in uranium mining and milling are becoming increasingly important owing to:
- the stricter requirements for new facilities being imposed by many countries in the form of envi...
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1 January 1999
The world’s nuclear power reactors are ageing, with the majority approaching the end of their planned operational lifetimes in the coming years. The adequacy of funding for decommissioning and radioa...
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18 June 2021
Workshop gathers global experts to better understand the situation in Ukraine and increase co-operation.
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21 December 2023
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31 December 2008
De l'état de préparation d'un pays depend l'issue d'une urgence nucléaire. Pour mieux préparer ses pays Membres à la gestion de crise, l'Agence de l'OCDE pour l'énergie nucléaire (AEN) a organisé une...
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27 April 2001
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30 July 2012
Alors que l'humanité bénéficie aujourd'hui de nombreuses applications des technologies nucléaires, une inquiétude croissante se fait jour dans de nombreux pays de l'OCDE quant à la diminution des ens...
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1 January 2000
Alors que l'humanité bénéficie aujourd'hui de nombreuses applications des technologies nucléaires, une inquiétude croissante se fait jour dans de nombreux pays de l'OCDE quant à la diminution des ens...
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1 January 2000
EGPRS Task Force members met on 3 April 2023.
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7 April 2023
The WGPC held its biannual plenary meeting on 3-4 May 2022 to discuss its ongoing work and the progress made in activities on public trust and risk communication.
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1 June 2022
WPNEM held its 48th meeting in Oslo on 21 November 2023.
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4 December 2023
Repositories for the disposal of radioactive waste generally rely on a multi-barrier system to isolate the waste from the biosphere. This multi-barrier system typically comprises the natural geologic...
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3 July 2003
A joint NEA-EC workshop entitled “Engineered Barrier Systems: Design Requirements and Constraints” was organised in Turku, Finland on 26-29 August 2003 and hosted by Posiva Oy. The main objectives of...
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11 November 2020
In the deep disposal of radioactive waste, the presence of several barriers serving complementary safety functions enhances confidence that the waste will be isolated and contained to protect human h...
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16 February 2007
The presence of several barriers serving complementary safety functions enhances confidence that radioactive waste placed in deep geological repositories will be adequately isolated and contained to ...
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12 April 2007
A joint NEA-EC workshop entitled “Engineered Barrier Systems (EBS) in the Context of the Entire Safety Case” was organised in Oxford on 25-27 September 2002 and hosted by United Kingdom Nirex Limited...
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3 July 2003
The Integration Group for the Safety Case (IGSC) of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) is co-sponsoring a project with the European Commission to develop a greater understanding of how to achieve the ne...
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16 November 2004
The NEA participated in the European Nuclear Young Generation Forum in Krakow, Poland, an international platform for collaboration between the nuclear sector and the next generation.
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17 May 2023
NEA Forum on Stakeholder Confidence held its annual plenary meeting on 12-14 October 2021.
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19 October 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
The Council of Advisors to the Global Forum, comprising representatives from academic institutions in NEA member countries, convened on 28 June 2021 to formalise the operational model of the forum an...
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1 July 2021
The NEA and the Ministry of Energy Transition of France will host the first government-industry conference.
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27 September 2023
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17 December 2012
Encouraging female scientists of the future was the focus of the international mentoring workshop held on 25-26 July 2017 by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), in co‑operation with Japan's National Ins...
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26 July 2017
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31 December 2004
A new collaboration with the EPRI and the NEA will focus on waste management strategies for small modular reactors.
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26 October 2023
Radioactive effluent releases from nuclear installations have generally been substantially reduced in recent years, well below regulatory requirements. At the same time, international and intergovern...
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29 October 2003
NEA Ad Hoc Expert Group on Maintaining Low‑Carbon Generation Capacity through Long‑Term Operation of Nuclear Power Plants (EGLTO) meeting, 14‑16 January 2020
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16 February 2020
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
Le dépôt des déchets radioactifs à vie longue dans des formations géologiques profondes fait l’objet d’études approfondies dans le monde entier dans le but de protéger l’homme et l’environnement, auj...
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19 July 2004
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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4 November 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
Le Comité de l'AEN de la gestion des déchets radioactifs (RWMC) réunit des représentants à haut niveau des agences de gestion des déchets radioactifs, des organismes de réglementation, des organes re...
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1 January 1999
Il presente rapporto, avente finalità di ampia divulgazione, contiene una sintetica panoramica delle problematiche associate alla disattivazione e allo smantellamento delle intallazioni nucleari ne P...
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30 September 2004
L’enlèvement des matières irradiées et plus particulièrement du combustible à l'issue de l'arrêt définitif d'une installation élimine la source principale de risque radiologique, le risque de critici...
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25 September 2008
This report presents a collective opinion of the Radioactive Waste Management Committee of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD/NEA) and of the International Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Com...
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1 January 1991
Germany is exploring a new approach towards the final management of its radioactive waste. This international workshop, held in Germany, attracted 65 participants from 13 countries. A little more tha...
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16 May 2006
WGHOF held its 31st plenary meeting virtually on 21 -23 March 2022
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13 April 2022
The WPRS met from 20-24 February 2023.
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17 March 2023
WPRS gathered 172 experts from 22 countries at the annual Benchmark Workshop.
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9 June 2022
The event gathered 129 participants from 75 international institutions.
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6 October 2022
The NEA High-level Group on Low-Dose Research (HLG-LDR) met on 27-28 June 2023.
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6 July 2023
CNRA met to discuss its new structure and future activities.
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14 June 2023
The WPLANS met in person and online on 27-28 June 2022 to exchange on national developments related to the legal aspects of nuclear safety.
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1 July 2022
Members of the WGHOF gathered in Vantaa, Finland, for its 33rd meeting.
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25 May 2023
International workshop convened experts in the field to United States.
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20 November 2023
The Joint NEA-IAEA Uranium Group discussed latest and future activities during a meeting in Paris.
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26 February 2024
NEA Director‑General William D. Magwood, IV, undertook his first official visit to Poland on 28‑29 May 2018 for meetings with the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Investment and Economic Developme...
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29 May 2018
The desired outcome of nuclear regulatory activities is the safe operation of nuclear facilities in a manner that protects public health and safety, and the environment. The operator has prime respon...
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20 April 2004
Digital transformation: Opportunities and challenges for the nuclear sector, 27-28 May 2021.
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31 May 2021
Im schweizerischen Projekt Entsorgungsnachweis untersucht die Nagra die Sicherheit der geologischen Tiefenlagerung von radioaktiven Abfällen im Opalinuston des Zürcher Weinlands. Der vorliegende Beri...
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22 April 2004
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1 February 2021
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13 March 2008
Dans de nombreux pays, le financement public de la R&D dans le domaine de l'énergie nucléaire a décru considérablement ou a même complètement disparu. Dans le même temps, les bénéfices des compagnies...
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28 October 2004
Cet ouvrage est le résumé d'un rapport portant le même titre ; il présente les principaux résultats d'une enquête internationale sur les initiatives récentes en matière d'enseignement et de formation...
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16 August 2004
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5 May 2020
NEA Clay Club annual meeting, 23 September 2020.
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16 December 2020