In response to the growing interest in the field of decommissioning of nuclear facilities, the Nuclear Energy Agency of the OECD commenced in 1978 a programme of activities in this field. This report...
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8 February 1996
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8 February 1996
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
Virtually all national and international radiation protection regulations and standards are based on the recommendations published by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP). N...
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17 March 2003
Developed and reviewed by experts of the EC, IAEA and NEA, input for this report includes information and experience concerning decommissioning cost items and cost-item definitions. The resulting lis...
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28 February 1999
Preparedness and management of nuclear or radiological emergencies are crucial areas for nuclear and non-nuclear member countries. Feedback from international exercises (e.g. INEX) indicate working a...
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7 May 2020
The practical application of radiological protection policy in international recommendations and national regulations is essential, as is their implementation in the field.
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7 May 2020
The mission of the CRPPH Working Party on Nuclear Emergency Matters (WPNEM) is to improve nuclear emergency management systems within member countries, and to share its knowledge and experience widel...
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28 October 2020
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4 November 2020
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
Albeit remote, the risk of a severe nuclear accident cannot be reduced to zero, carrying the potential to cause grave consequences to the concerned nuclear site and, if offsite radiological releases ...
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16 June 2020
Radiological protection is a term applied to the protection of workers, patients, the public and the environment from the harmful effects of exposure to ionising radiation, and ways to achieve this.
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13 December 2019
The Expert Group on Occupational Exposure (EGOE) will build on operational and regulatory experience in NEA member countries, focusing on the use of existing databases to identify where and how opera...
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12 March 2020
Ionization Chamber Smoke Detectors (ICSDs) containing radioactive sources appear at present to be an important application of ionizing radiation. In the past their use has been directed mainly toward...
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13 October 1977
NEA Committee on Radiological Protection and Public Health (CRPPH) annual meeting, 9-11 September 2020.
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9 October 2020
The ISOE was launched in 1992 by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) to improve the management of occupational exposures at nuclear power plants through the collection and analysis of occupational e...
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27 May 2020
The Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) has become a unique, worldwide programme on the protection of workers at nuclear power plants. It includes a vast network for exchanging experie...
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26 October 2005
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
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
The Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE), a joint initiative of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has become a unique worldwide pro...
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16 July 2003
The societal aspects of risk governance are increasingly becoming a part of public decision-making processes. This tendency is particularly evident in matters dealing with the protection of human hea...
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1 February 2002
The Fifth International Nuclear Emergency Exercise (INEX-5) was developed in response to NEA member countries' desire to test and demonstrate the value of changes put in place following the Fukushima...
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2 October 2018
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5 December 2003
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7 January 2003
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...
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29 June 2004
The international radiological protection community performed a major status review of the situation around the damaged Chernobyl reactor on the 10-year anniversary of the accident. Since then, studi...
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10 June 2020
The Expert Group on Radiological Protection Science at the Service of Stakeholders (EGSS) used the case studies already elaborated through the NEA Villigen stakeholder workshops to examine how, when ...
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29 May 2020
The INEX-4 exercise was designed to allow participants to investigate the national and, in some cases, international arrangements for responding to widespread radiological contamination of the urban ...
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26 May 2020
NEA Expert Group on Non‑radiological Public Health Aspects of Radiation Emergency Planning and Response (EGNR) kick‑off meeting on 5 November 2019.
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6 December 2019
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6 December 2019
NEA Expert Group on Recovery Management (EGRM) meeting, 1‑2 October 2019.
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18 November 2019
NEA Workshop on Optimisation: Rethinking the Art of Reasonable, 13‑15 January 2020
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15 January 2020
Preparedness for Post‑Accident Recovery Process: Lessons from Experience
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4 March 2020
New NEA Expert Group on Comparison and Understanding of Dose Prognosis (EGDP) kicks off, 24 March 2020
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8 April 2020
Psychosocial aspects of radiological and nuclear emergencies
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8 April 2020
Exposure of workers to ionising radiation should be kept as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA). Approaches to accomplishing this are developed through experience exchange and circumstance evaluatio...
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7 May 2020
NEA Expert Group on the Dose Limit for the Lens of the Eye launches survey
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8 April 2020
With input from 17 CRPPH member countries, the survey results demonstrated interest in all areas of radiological protection and underlined the importance of priority setting.
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2 September 2020
International Radiological Protection School(IRPS) flyer 2019
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21 September 2020
Experience gaps caused by past radiological or nuclear incidents/accidents, as well as intergenerational knowledge and know-how transfer challenge the continuity of radiological protection best pract...
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7 May 2020
The NEA Committee on Radiological Protection and Public Health (CRPPH), through various sub-groups, has focused on improving the effectiveness of international nuclear emergency preparedness and mana...
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25 May 2020
The brochure provides background information about the NEA.
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10 September 2018
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4 September 2020
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26 August 2020
Photo for Web Event#1-Mitigating psychological impacts of crisis response
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26 August 2020
To better understand how the process of developing radiation protection risk identification, assessment and management should evolve to better address societal needs, the CRPPH organised the first Vi...
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8 June 2020
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Key scientific challenges arising from ongoing radiobiological research have been identified recently. From this scientific base, the possible implications for radiological protection science are exp...
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3 June 2020
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