Following a safety-oriented, stepwise procedure for geological repository siting, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan (NUMO) requested in 2021 that the NEA facilitate an independent in...
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...
Robotics and remote systems (RRS) are essential technologies for work in the radiation environments typically encountered in the nuclear back-end, such as in radioactive waste management and decommis...
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
The FSC workshop participants discussed best practices for community and youth engagement around the topic of radioactive waste disposal.
Figure 1: Generation IV International Forum [gen-4.org]
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) organised an international workshop on the implementation of radioactive w...
At the end of its first phase of RK&M work, the OECD/NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) observed that the context has changed considerably since the 1980s, when RK&M preservation was t...
The Regulators' Forum (RF) is made up of regulators who participate in the work of the RWMC and CDLM, helping to address common regulatory issues of NEA member countries.
The Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) was established by the NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) in 2000 and serves as a platform for understanding stakeholder dialogue and discussi...
The Regulators’ Forum (RF), the Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) and the Committee on Decommissioning of Nuclear Installations (CDLM) held their annual plenary meetings and a joint commi...
Radioactive waste is produced in all phases of the nuclear fuel cycle and from the use of radioactive materials in industrial, medical, defence and research applications. Disposal in engineered repos...
This workshop is organised by the NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) and hosted by the Nuclear and Radioactive Waste Agency (ANDR), Romania.
At the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle, ...
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (NDF) are organising an international workshop on the characterisation of large quanti...
This workshop aimed to facilitate a broad discussion of the challenges around the competency of regulators in the areas of radioactive waste management, decommissioning and legacy management. In Janu...
The goal of EGCUL is to share state-of-the-art knowledge and experience in characterising a large amount of unknown waste derived from nuclear accidents and past nuclear activities.
The Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) was created in 2000 under a mandate from the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) to facilitate the sharing of inte...
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...
This brochure describes the mandate, profile, focus areas, and future challenges of the Regulators’ Forum (RF).
The Expert Group on Characterisation Methodology of Unconventional and Legacy Waste (EGCUL) was established under the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) and it ...
The Preservation of Records, Knowledge and Memory (RK&M) Across Generations initiative was launched by the Nuclear Energy Agency in 2011 to foster international reflection and progress towards this g...
Bridging Gaps: Developing Sustainable Intergenerational Decision Making in Radioactive Waste Management
Stakeholder Involvement and Confidence in the Process of Decision-making for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel in Finland, Turku, Finland, 15-16 November 2001
The "COWAM Spain" Initiative and the Current Project under Consideration for a National Interim Storage Facility for Spent Fuel and High Level Waste: The Sixth Workshop of the Forum on Stakeholder Co...
