The NEA Second Framework for Irradiation Experiments (FIDES-II) supports the fuel and material experimental needs of nuclear safety regulators, technical support organisations, research institutions ...
In November 2023, the NEA Data Bank held two beginner level courses in Paris, France.
The Shielding Integral Benchmark Archive and Database (SINBAD) database contains compilations for 46 reactor shielding, 31 fusion neutronics and 23 accelerator shielding experiments.
There is significant international interest in the effects of temperature on criticality safety evaluations. Improved access to nuclear data, notably thermal scattering data S(α,β) for hydrogen in ic...
The CRISSUE-S Project was created to re-evaluate fundamental technical issues with the technology of light water reactors (LWRs).
Recent performance breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have led to unprecedented interest in AI/ML among nuclear engineers. However, the lack of dedicated benchmar...
Experts from 16 countries met on 13-15 September for the 24th annual Working Group on Fuel Safety GFS meeting in Paris.
The NEA is organising the 16th Information Exchange Meeting on Actinide and Fission Product Partitioning and Transmutation (16IEMPT) on 24-27 October 2023. The meeting will be held at the NEA offices...
The NEA Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science Technology and Policy (the NEA Global Forum) held a coun...
Image: Microscopic examination of U-bearing particles collected at Fukushima-Daiichi, JAEA
The Thermodynamic Characterisation of Fuel Debris and Fission Products ...
The EGMUP Task Force on artificial intelligence and machine learning will design benchmark specifications to evaluate the performance of AI/ML in multi-physics modeling and simulation of reactor syst...
The Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy acts as an inclusive network of experts in the nuclear energy sector, primarily from academia, focused on enabling the generation...
The 12th International Conference on Nuclear Criticality Safety (ICNC) was held in Sendai, Japan, on 1-6 October 2023. Twenty years after the last conference in Japan, which was held in Tokai-mura as...
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...
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...
The goal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety (WPNCS) Subgroup on Experimental Needs for Criticality Safety Purposes (SG-5) was to highlight the needs of int...
The NEA launched the Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework in partnership with its member countries to help address important gaps in nuclear skills capacity building, knowledge t...
Burn-up credit is a safety approach that accounts for the reduction in the reactivity of configurations with spent nuclear fuel due to the change in their composition after irradiation.
Under the guidance of the Working Party on Scientific Issues of Advanced Fuel Cycles (WPFC), the Expert Group on Fuel Recycling and Waste Technology (EGFRW) focuses on the separation processes releva...
