This report is intended to serve as a practical guide to explain the organisational characteristics, attributes and ways of thinking that can help a nuclear regulator build and maintain trust with in...
Published date:
17 April 2024
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
The "Back-End Week" convened members to discuss decommissioning and waste management activities.
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11 April 2024
The NEA Component Operational Experience, Degradation and Ageing Programme (CODAP) is the continuation of the NEA Pipe Failure Data Exchange Project (OPDE – 2002 to 2011) and the NEA Stress Corrosion...
Published date:
22 April 2024
Project members held a meeting to discuss the activities.
Published date:
16 April 2024
NEA/CSNI/R(2022)3
The NEA Specialist Workshop on Advanced Measurement Method and Instrumentation for Enhancing Severe Accident Management in a Nuclear Power Plant addressing Emergency, Stabilisation and Long-term Reco...
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15 April 2024
Information note on nuclear power installations in Ukraine, updated periodically.
Published date:
12 April 2024
26 August 2024 -
6 September 2024
Montpellier, France
The application period for the 2024 session is now closed.
Published date:
9 April 2024
One of the many lessons learnt about nuclear safety over the years has been that human aspects of nuclear safety are as important as any technical issue that may arise. The international nuclear comm...
Published date:
5 April 2024
Forty nuclearexperts came together to explore the latest developments in preparations for the LTO beyond sixty years of existing nuclear power plants.
Published date:
27 March 2024
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/CNRA/R(2022)5
This report outlines first the safety concerns and the regulatory basis for reactor water level measurement diversity and reliability in participating countries. After that the measurement methods an...
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25 March 2024
The fourth FACE meeting brought together experts to Cologne, Germany.
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27 February 2024
A new working group will focus on HTGRs.
Published date:
22 March 2024
Updates from the NEA Working Group on Reactor Oversight
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18 March 2024
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law. It provides readers with authoritative and comprehensive information o...
Published date:
14 March 2024
All low-carbon solutions will be required to achieve the world's net zero targets. Nuclear energy has a role to play in meeting this need. A wave of innovation in small modular reactors (SMRs) is adv...
Published date:
20 July 2023
Small modular reactors (SMRs) are technologies capable of harnessing the energy from nuclear fission reactions to produce heat and electricity with power outputs typically smaller than 300 MWe, with ...
Published date:
28 February 2024
All low-carbon solutions will be required to achieve the world's net zero targets. Nuclear energy has a role to play in meeting this need. A wave of innovation in small modular reactors (SMRs) is adv...
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13 March 2023
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
Uranium is the main raw material fuelling all nuclear fission reactors today. Countries around the world use it to reliably generate low-carbon electricity, process heat and hydrogen as part of their...
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3 April 2023
The Joint NEA-IAEA Uranium Group discussed latest and future activities during a meeting in Paris.
Published date:
26 February 2024
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
Nuclear-hydrogen drives discussions at the Global Clean Energy Action Forum in Pittsburgh.
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24 October 2022
Uranium 2020: Resources, Production and Demand
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23 December 2020
Climate change will create specific risks and challenges for nuclear power plants and the electricity system as a whole. Extreme weather events caused by climate change – such as floods, storms, heat...
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4 November 2021
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
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
Hydrogen is expected to play important roles in decarbonised energy systems, as an energy source for otherwise hard-to-electrify sectors as well as a storage vector to enhance power system flexibilit...
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21 September 2022
Nuclear Energy Data is the Nuclear Energy Agency’s annual compilation of statistics and country reports documenting nuclear power status in NEA member countries and in the OECD area. Information prov...
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1 June 2022
Energy markets will be significantly different in the future. The electricity generation system is becoming more diverse with the development of energy-related technologies including renewable energy...
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2 December 2021
This report presents practical guidance to enhance leadership for safety in nuclear regulatory bodies. It identifies the effective characteristics, competencies and behaviours of leaders in regulator...
Published date:
12 March 2024
Most safety incidents are often not due to a technical fault or the actions of a single individual, but rather originate in a compromised safety culture – the collection of the beliefs, perceptions a...
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12 March 2024
Realising the contribution of nuclear energy to achieving net zero carbon emission in 2050 will require raising significant amounts of capital at competitive rates. On the basis of work under the aeg...
Published date:
12 December 2022
Read the summary and main outcomes of the NEA Nuclear Safety Research Joint Projects Week.
Published date:
13 March 2024
NEA/CSNI/R(2022)8
Several NEA member countries agreed to establish the Component Operational Experience, Degradation and Ageing Programme (CODAP) to encourage co-operation in the collection and analysis of data relati...
Published date:
13 March 2024
NEA/CSNI/R(2022)9
The objective of this study is to compare leak rate computation practices and the applied tools and software solutions. Leak rate prediction is an important aspect of the leak-beforebreak assessment,...
Published date:
13 March 2024
NEA/NSC/R(2023)9
The Expert Group on Innovative Structural Materials (EGISM) was created in 2008 under the auspices of the Nuclear Science Committee’s (NSC) Working Party on Scientific Issues of the Fuel Cycle (WPFC)...
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12 March 2024
The Third International Workshop on the Indemnification of Damage in the Event of a Nuclear Accident was held in Bratislava, Slovak Republic in October 2017. It was organised in co-operation with the...
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12 March 2024
An NEA delegation last week travelled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to take part in the 37th Africa Union Summit.
Published date:
27 February 2024
This Technical Opinion Paper (TOP) studies the emerging use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) as an additional tool for the evaluation of safety cases implying thermal hydraulics. CFD allows a fi...
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11 March 2024
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
There is a consensus in the international community that geological repositories provide the necessary long-term safety and security to isolate long-lived radioactive waste. However, despite the tech...
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4 September 2023
Knowledge of basic nuclear physics data is essential for the modelling and safe operation of all types of nuclear facilities. The de facto international standard format, Evaluated Nuclear Data File 6...
Published date:
22 September 2023
Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) is jointly sponsored by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Since 1992, ISOE has provided a forum for...
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24 October 2023
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Working Group on the Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) aims to contribute to the assessment of the prevention, mitigation and management of accidents, ultim...
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5 October 2023
The imperative to reduce carbon emissions is profoundly transforming the electricity and energy systems of OECD and NEA countries. This sets in motion a number of interrelated developments that chall...
Published date:
5 March 2024
Published every year, the NEA Annual report includes an overview of NEA's activities and publications produced during the year, as well as the latest developments in nuclear energy sector around the ...
Published date:
8 December 2023
NEA News is the professional journal of the NEA. It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nuclear safety and regulatio...
Published date:
13 April 2023
NEA/NSC/R(2022)2
Under the guidance of the NEA Nuclear Science Committee (NSC), the Expert Group on Improvement of Integral Experiments Data for Minor Actinide Management (EGIEMAM-II) was established to recommend nec...
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4 March 2024