The NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) created the Ad-hoc Group on the Extended Storage and Transportation (AhGEST) in 2021. Following the work on these two topics, AhGEST presented it...

The Task Force on Dose Rate Calculations for Irradiated Fuel Assembly was launched in 2015 to assess code predictions of dose rates from bare spent fuel assemblies and to benchmark multiple codes and...

Approximately 30 experts from WGAMA discussed how to advance the understanding of phenomena in pool in the situation of a loss of cooling accident.

Community and industry come together to workshop radioactive waste management strategies

Under the auspices of the NEA Nuclear Science Committee (NSC), the Working Party on Scientific Issues of Advanced Fuel Cycles (WPFC) was established to co-ordinate scientific activities related to ad...

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...

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...

This report examines the predisposal phase of radioactive waste management programmes in NEA member countries for all types of waste from high-level to intermediate- and low-level waste, and spent fu...

International Roundtable on the Final Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel: Summary Report

The second Roundtable on Final Disposal of High‑level Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel,
7 February 2020

The first Roundtable for International Co‑operation in Final Disposal of High‑level Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel, 14 October 2019.

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...

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...

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...

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 NEA’s Working Group on Fuel Cycle Safety (WGFCS), in co-operation with the Working Group on Fuel Safety (WGFS), aimed within the current international workshop to advance the understanding within...

Sweden is at the forefront among countries developing plans for a deep geological repository of highly radioactive waste. There is no such repository in operation yet worldwide, but Sweden, Finland a...

Spent Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Flowsheet

This document is a synthesis of the 8th National Workshop and Community Visit of the Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) held in Östhammar, Sweden on 4-6 May 2011. Representatives of local, regiona...

This is the final full report of the 4-year international project on Reversibility and Retrievability (R&R) launched in 2007 by the OECD/NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC). Major miles...

On 18 May 2001, the Finnish Parliament ratified the Decision in Principle (DiP) on the final disposal facility for spent nuclear fuel at Olkiluoto, in the municipality of Eurajoki. This followed posi...