Workshop on Competency Management of Regulators (COMAREG), 18-20 May 2021

This status report on Decommissioning Funding: Ethics, Implementation, Uncertainties is based on a review of recent literature and materials presented at NEA meetings in 2003 and 2004, and particular...

The NEA Co‑operative Programme for the Exchange of Scientific and Technical Information Concerning Nuclear Installation Decommissioning Projects (CPD) held its Technical Advisory Group (TAG) meeting ...

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...

NEA Co‑operative Programme for the Exchange of Scientific and Technical Information Concerning Nuclear Installation Decommissioning Projects (CPD) management board meeting on 19-20 November 2020.

NEA Expert Group on the Application of Robotics and Remote Systems in the Nuclear Back‑end (EGRRS) plenary meeting, 7 December 2020

NEA Working Party on Information, Data and Knowledge Management (WP‑IDKM) plenary meeting, 26-27 January 2021.

NEA Expert Group on Archiving for Radioactive Waste Management Activities (EGAR) meeting, 31 May - 1 June 2021.

NEA Working Party on Information, Data and Knowledge Management (WP‑IDKM) held a topical session on IDKM timescales on 1-2 September 2021 towards building a common understanding of the timescales inv...

NEA Forum on Stakeholder Confidence held its annual plenary meeting on 12-14 October 2021.

NEA Expert Group on the Application of Robotics and Remote Systems in the Nuclear Back-end (EGRRS) discusses how to improve the regulatory framework for robotic and remote systems applications.

東日本大震災とそれに続く福島第一原子力発電所事故から10年が経ち、多くの教訓が得られたが、まだ多くの課題が残っている。
この報告書は福島第一原子力発電所の現況と、事故後の日本の当局並びに国際社会の対応について報告するもので、事故に起因する多面的な問題を政策決定者と一般市民双方が理解することに役立つであろう。それには、災害復旧努力、損害賠償、原子力安全、原子力規制、放射線防護、廃炉作業、放射性廃棄物...

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) acts as a centre for informed exchange of knowledge and experience regarding stakeholder interaction and public participatio...

The FSC recently established a new group, Stakeholder Involvement in Decommissioning and Legacy Management (SIDLM), in response to member country needs regarding the methods and best practices to eng...

In 2012, following a proposal from Japan, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) decided to initiate a joint project to conduct a study of the accident progression for the Fukush...

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...

The Expert Group on a Holistic Process for Decision Making on Decommissioning and Management of Complex Sites (HDCS) continues to make progress with its forthcoming report to describe the scope of co...

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident: Message from Director-General Magwood

The Working Group on the Radiological Protection Aspects of Decommissioning Activities at Nuclear Power Plants (WGDECOM) holds its 12^th meeting in Germany

Virtual Stakeholder Confidence Workshop on the Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities in the United Kingdom, 16 September 2020. 

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...

This Strategic Plan is intended to guide the NEA as it seeks to meet the evolving needs of member countries in the application and exploration of nuclear science and technology. The plan includes an ...

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Strategic Plan serves as a guiding instrument that reflects the priorities of its member countries as the Agency addresses evolving needs in the exploration and a...

The brochure provides background information about the NEA.

The NEA Working Party on Information, Data and Knowledge Management discussed the topic of AI and data preservation during their third plenary meeting on 7-8 February 2023.

Much has been learnt in the ten years since the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and the subsequent accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, but significant challenges still remain.

This ...

The CDLM assists member states in holistically addressing challenges in the execution of decommissioning and legacy management through sharing experiences among members with a broad range of expertis...

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NEA article reporting on this workshop:

Examining new technolog...

Decommissioning refers to all the actions taken to remove a licensed or authorised nuclear facility as well as legacy sites from regulatory control after their permanent shutdown.

NEA’s Working Party on the Technical, Environmental, and Safety Aspects of Decommissioning and Legacy Management gathered for a workshop on  29 November to 1 December 2022 in Paris. 

Nuclear decommissioning activities can greatly benefit from research and development (R&D) projects. This report examines applicable emergent technologies, current research efforts and innovation nee...

Experience from decommissioning projects suggests that the decommissioning of nuclear power plants could be made easier if it received greater consideration at the design stage and during the operati...

This status report on Selecting Strategies for the Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities is based on the viewpoints and materials presented at a seminar held in Tarragona, Spain on 1-4 September 2003...

Releasing the site of a nuclear installation from radiological control is usually one of the last steps of decommissioning. To date, site release has been practised in a limited number of cases only ...

The transition from an operating nuclear facility to the decommissioning phase is critical in the life cycle of every facility. A number of organisational and technical modifications are needed in or...

The number of nuclear reactors approaching decommissioning, or already in the process of decommissioning, is increasing globally. Planning and performing decommissioning and dismantling activities ra...

Cost estimation for the decommissioning of nuclear facilities can vary considerably in format, content and practice both within and across countries. These differences may have legitimate reasons but...

The nuclear sector has in recent years been placing increasing attention on the need to better understand variations between cost estimates for the decommissioning of nuclear power plants, as well as...

Decommissioning of both commercially used and R&D nuclear facilities is expected to increase significantly in the coming years, and the largest of such industrial decommissioning projects could comma...

Currently, the format, content and practice of cost estimation vary considerably both within and between countries, which makes it very difficult to compare estimates, even for similar types of facil...