The new NEA initiative was announced at the 28th meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28).
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5 December 2023
International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2023
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The goal of the 14th International Conference on Radiation Shielding and 21st Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division [ICRS 14/RPSD-2022] is to introduce participants to ne...
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The purpose of this joint conference is to ensure attendees leave with renewed interest in their field of expertise by exposing them to the new tools for developers, code users, theoreticians, and ex...
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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...
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23 October 2023
This brochure is published in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the NEA Regulators' Forum (RF). The document describes the history of RF, its major milestones, achievements, and vision for the...
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23 February 2023
Publié chaque année, le Rapport annuel de l’AEN présente un aperçu des activités et publications de l’AEN pour une année donnée, ainsi que les derniers développements du secteur de l’énergie nucléair...
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24 October 2022
Published every year, the NEA Annual report includes an overview of NEA's activities and publications produced during the year, as well as the latest developments in nuclear energy sector around the ...
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24 October 2022
Publié chaque année, le Rapport annuel de l’AEN présente un aperçu des activités et publications de l’AEN pour une année donnée, ainsi que les derniers développements du secteur de l’énergie nucléair...
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8 December 2023
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20 January 2023
Published every year, the NEA Annual report includes an overview of NEA's activities and publications produced during the year, as well as the latest developments in nuclear energy sector around the ...
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8 December 2023
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18 July 2022
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Barcelona, Spain
This course is addressed to researchers in Radiation Physics and its applications. The main objective is to provide the participants with a detailed description of the new, 2020, version of PENELOPE,...
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2 June 2022
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19 January 2023
NEA Director-General Magwood shares his forecast for the biggest developments and challenges in the nuclear energy sector in 2023.
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3 February 2023
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5 September 2023
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4 January 2024
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Barcelona, Spain
Date: 8-12 July 2024
Place: Universitat de Barcelona
Facultat de Fisica
Diagonal 645
08028 Barcelona - SPAIN
Minimum enrolment: 6 participants
Maximum enrolment: 15 participants
Course fee: 1500 EUR
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7 February 2024
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NEA headquarters (46, quai Alphonse Le Gallo, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France) with a remote access option
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30 January 2023
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NEA headquarters (46, quai Alphonse Le Gallo, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France), remote access only under exceptional circumstances
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29 November 2023
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Warsaw, Poland
The International Nuclear Law Association (INLA) was founded in Brussels in 1970 by a group of nuclear lawyers, with finalisation of its Statutes and incorporation taking place in 1972. Its purpose i...
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10 July 2023
Accelerating SMRs for Net Zero will establish a practical, solutions-oriented platform with a defined plan of work for collaboration and knowledge exchange to support decision makers in maximising th...
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11 December 2023
27 February 2024
Laurier Room - Fairmont Château Laurier, Ottawa, Canada
The NEA will host an international workshop on the economics of small modular reactors (SMRs) at Fairmont Château Laurier in Ottawa, Canada, on Tuesday, 27 February 2024. This international workshop ...
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19 January 2024
The project participants, who come from 19 organisations in 8 countries, met in December 2023 in Karlsruhe.
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21 December 2023
With an electricity system defined by high shares of hydropower, large capacity for interconnection with its neighbours and low carbon intensity, Switzerland is well positioned to attain its objectiv...
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27 October 2022
27 October 2022
15:30-17:00 CEST, Online
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As one of the NEA member countries with the lowest carbon emissions, Switzerland is well positioned to achieve its objective of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. The main features ...
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11 October 2022
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12 September 2023
NEA/NSC/R(2020)4
Advanced nuclear fuel cycles to improve the safety, sustainability and economics of nuclear energy are being investigated worldwide. Partitioning and transmutation (P&T) is one of the candidate techn...
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11 October 2022
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4 May 2023
1964 Protocol to Amend 1963 Brussels Supplementary Convention
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12 May 2023
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31 March 2023
The NEA and IAEA jointly organised an international workshop in Vienna, Austria, on 2-6 October 2023.
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21 November 2023
NEA workshop gathers nuclear sector stakeholders for interactive discussions.
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20 March 2024
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12 December 2022
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6 October 2023
The NEA ATLAS3 and NEA ETHARINUS projects organised a workshop on 7-9 November 2023.
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23 November 2023
The 9th edition of the Computational Fluid Dynamics for Nuclear Reactor Safety workshop was hosted by Texas A&M University on 20-22 February 2023.
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23 March 2023
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JW Marriott Bucharest Grand Hotel, Bucharest, Romania
Momentum in regards to disposal solutions for radioactive waste has rapidly picked up over the last five years. Several countries have entered the licensing phase of establishing a deep geological re...
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13 June 2023
The 2023 MMSNF takes place in Canada.
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14 December 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)8
The aim of this report is to examine whether there are any international variations in the electrical power system designs (“design variations”) of nuclear power plants that affect the system respons...
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13 January 2023
WPFM held meetings on 23-25 May 2023.
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13 June 2023
Approximately 30 experts from WGAMA discussed how to advance the understanding of phenomena in pool in the situation of a loss of cooling accident.
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25 April 2023
An NEA delegation last week travelled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to take part in the 37th Africa Union Summit.
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27 February 2024
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Tokyo (Japan) - Hitotsubashi Hall, National Center of Sciences Building
The NEA in collaboration with the Japanese Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) hosted an international workshop on 28-29 June 2023 on the topic of Ageing management considerations in mechanical codes ...
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3 July 2023
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3 November 2022
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14 October 2022
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11 January 2024
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11 October 2023
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27 June 2023
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18 July 2022
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16 November 2022
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2 November 2022
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22 January 2024
The objective of the Amendment to the CPPNM is to achieve and maintain worldwide effective physical protection of nuclear material and of nuclear facilities used for peaceful purposes; to prevent a...
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21 November 2023
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Online training course
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Date: 16-17 April 2024
Place: Online course
Maximum enrolment: 25 participants
Course fee: 50 EUR
This two-day online event will be...
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15 March 2024
Investigation for damage condition and radiation dose in Unit 3 at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (December 2019). Photo: Japan Nuclear Regulation Au...
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19 October 2022
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15 November 2023
Appendix D. Reference multi-group Monte Carlo solution
Appendix E. Complementary reference multi-group Monte Carlo solutions and comparison
Appendix F. Two-dimensional result analysis
Appendix G. All co...
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26 September 2022
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6 September 2023
The OECD NEA RASPLAV Project provided experiments with prototypical material and data on the behavior of molten core material (corium) in the reactor pressure vessel lower head during a severe accide...
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6 October 2023
The scope of the proposed project is therefore to perform practical exercises of demonstration of the SAPIUM approach.
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1 September 2023
Anciens numéros du Bulletin de droit nucléaire (nos 1 à 80).
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3 April 2023
23 June 2023
12:30 CEST, Zoom
Female scientists and engineers pioneered the nuclear and radiological fields, with leaders and innovators such as Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Lise Meitner, among many others, establishing the foundat...
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19 June 2023
Nuclear legislation: Argentina
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19 September 2023
The NEA took part in the International Youth Nuclear Congress on 27 November - 2 December 2022 in Komiyama, Japan. (Image source: IYNC)
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14 December 2022
Nuclear legislation: Australia
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19 September 2023
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12 March 2024
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27 June 2023
Irradiation Vessel with Coupons, CNL
The NEA Behaviour of Iodine Project (BIP) was created to provide separate effects and modelling studies of iodine behaviour in a nuclear reactor containment bui...
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31 August 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)14
The present report summarises the main results and learnings from the third phase of the NEA Behaviour of Iodine Project (BIP-3), which was conducted between 2016 and 2019 by the Canadian Nuclear Lab...
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15 February 2023
Nuclear legislation: Belgium
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19 September 2023
The Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS) and its expert groups co-ordinate benchmark activities on Reactor Single- and Multi-Physics. The benchmark ac...
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21 December 2023
An approach similar to the OECD/NRC Boiling Water Reactor Full-size Fine-mesh Bundle Tests (BFBT) Benchmark was adopted by dividing the benchmark activity into phases.
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2 August 2022
The goal of the Benchmark for Uncertainty Analysis in Best-Estimate Modelling for Design, Operation and Safety Analysis of Light Water Reactors (LWR-UAM) is to determine the uncertainty in light wate...
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25 April 2023
NEA/NSC/R(2021)5
Since the early 2000s there is an increasing demand from nuclear research, industry, safety and regulation for best-estimate predictions to be provided with their confidence bounds. Consequently, an ...
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18 April 2023
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18 January 2024
NEA/NSC/R(2023)8
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...
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19 September 2023
Units 1 and 2 End of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (4th October, 2011). Photo: Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings
The Benchmark Study of the Acci...
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25 November 2022
NEA/NSC/R(2022)5
This report presents the results of a benchmark study on innovative fuels for fast reactors using fuel performance codes. Irradiation results were shared among participants of the expert group and co...
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3 April 2023
30 October 2023
13:00-15:00 CET, Online
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...
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6 December 2023
The annual WPRS Benchmarks Workshops took place on 22-26 May 2023 in Bologna, Italy.
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13 June 2023
Benchmarking the progress of SMRs continues with the release of the NEA SMR Dashboard: Volume II.
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20 July 2023
Nuclear energy is an important source of low-carbon electricity and plays a significant role in avoiding carbon emissions. It has the potential to contribute further to the decarbonisation of the wor...
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22 July 2022
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16 June 2023
Presentation of NEST Fellows
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25 May 2023
The Boiling Water Reactor Turbine Trip (BWRTT) Benchmark was established to challenge the coupled system thermal-hydraulic/neutron kinetics codes against a Peach-Bottom-2 (a GE-designed BWR/4) turbin...
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19 July 2022
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5 January 2023
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25 May 2023
The Brussels Supplementary Convention establishes a scheme to provide compensation supplementary to that required by the Paris Convention. The BSC is open only to contracting parties to the Paris C...
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25 September 2023
The Brussels Supplementary Convention establishes a scheme to provide compensation supplementary to that required by the Paris Convention. The BSC is open only to contracting parties to the Paris Con...
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12 May 2023
Latest status of ratifications or accessions of the Brussels Supplementary Convention (BSC).
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30 January 2023
Convention de Bruxelles complémentaire à la Convention de Paris: Texte consolidé officieux et exposé des motifs
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12 May 2023
General view of the EREC test facility BC V-213, source: EREC
There are several VVER-440/213* type nuclear power plants operating in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovak Republic, Russia and Ukraine...
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6 October 2023
In May 2022, the Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) and the Integration Group for the Safety Case (IGSC) held a Joint Workshop with stakeholders from Germany, Sweden and Switzerland to assess the ...
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21 August 2023
NEA/RWM/R(2022)4
Safe disposal of radioactive waste (RW), including spent fuel, must take into consideration long timescales as implied by radioactive waste management (RWM). The NEA Radioactive Waste Management Comm...
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24 January 2024
Nuclear legislation: Bulgaria
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19 September 2023
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire.
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27 March 2024
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24 May 2023
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire. Ses lecteurs bénéficient d’informations exhaustiv...
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27 January 2023
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire. Ses lecteurs bénéficient d’informations exhaustiv...
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24 May 2023
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire. Ses lecteurs bénéficient d’informations exhaustiv...
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16 November 2023
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.
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11 September 2023
NEA/NSC/R(2022)3/CORR
Please note that this report was initially published in November 2022 (NEA/NSC/R(2022)3) under erroneous benchmark number IIB; in this updated version (NEA/NSC/R(2022)3/CORR) this has been corrected ...
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30 November 2022
This benchmark is organised to examine the models for fission gas release during anticipated operational occurrences (AOOs).
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7 March 2023
Cable samples of Beznau NPP
In 2006, two subjects, stress corrosion cracking and the degradation of cable insulation were selected as the focus of the Stress Corrosion Cracking and Cable Ageing Pro...
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20 February 2024
Cabri Reactor (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives)
The Cabri International Project (CIP) began in March 2000 to study the behaviour of nuclear fuel rods and cladding durin...
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26 April 2023
Nuclear legislation: Canada
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19 September 2023
The Country-Specific Safety Culture Forum takes place in Canada.
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6 October 2022
Kick-off workshop of the thermal hydraulic code validation benchmark for high temperature gas-cooled reactors using High Temperature Test Facility (HTTF) data.
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16 June 2023
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17 November 2023
National legislation: China
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19 September 2023
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4 August 2022
The International Co-operative Programme for the Exchange of Scientific and Technical Information Concerning Nuclear Installation Decommissioning Projects (CPD) is a joint undertaking of a limited nu...
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3 November 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)7
The cold leg mixing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) – uncertainty quantification (CLM-UQ) benchmark is the fifth benchmark concerning CFD applications to nuclear reactor safety to be organised in ...
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3 November 2022
On 2-4 November, the NEA Working Group on Human and Organisational Factors (WGHOF) held its 32nd biennial meeting at the Nuclear Energy Agency headquarters in Paris, France.
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14 December 2022
The goal of the Committee for Technical and Economic Studies on Nuclear Energy Development and the Fuel Cycle is to provide authoritative, reliable information on nuclear technologies, economics, str...
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1 March 2024
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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5 May 2023
The Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) is an international committee created in 1989 to guide the NEA concerning safety in the regulation, licensing and inspection of nuclear installat...
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16 February 2024
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) is responsible for NEA programmes and activities that support maintaining and advancing the scientific and technical knowledge base of the ...
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10 October 2023
38 OECD countries formally adopt the Recommendation of the Council on Improving the Gender Balance in the Nuclear Sector.
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8 June 2023
Community and industry come together to workshop radioactive waste management strategies
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5 December 2022
The FSC workshop participants discussed best practices for community and youth engagement around the topic of radioactive waste disposal.
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26 October 2022
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17 January 2023
Feeders on the Reactor Face in the Feeder Cabinet Photo: Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC)
The Component Operational Experience, Degradation and Ageing Programme (CODAP) combines the follow-u...
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20 February 2024
The CTBT bans all nuclear explosions anywhere on Earth whether for military or peaceful purposes.
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13 November 2023
NEA Working Group on Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) initiated this activity focusing on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in nuclear reactor safety (NRS).
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1 September 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2022)2
The eighth instalment of the workshop on computational fluid dynamics for nuclear reactor safety (CFD4NRS-8) was organised by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Instal...
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28 August 2023
The OECD NEA Data Bank is an international centre of resources which aims to make scientific tools available to the nuclear science and technology community and to organise training courses. The Comp...
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18 October 2022
Control room, PAKS NPP.
Software-based systems are used and retrofitted in operating nuclear power plants worldwide. The failure modes of both hardware and software in these systems are to some ext...
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7 November 2023
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24 November 2022
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10 November 2022
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18 August 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)9
This report provides insights from a survey of Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) member countries on the concepts used to establish effective measures to cope with external flooding hazards and on the term...
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5 October 2022
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Convention du 29 juillet 1960 sur la responsabilité civile dans le domaine de l’énergie nucléaire, modifiée par le Protocole additionnel du 28 janvier 1964, par le Protocole du 16 novembre 1982 et pa...
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2 February 2024
Recueil des décisions, recommandations et interprétations concernant la convention de Paris
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13 March 2023
État d’avancement des ratifications ou des adhésions à la Convention de Paris sur la responsabilité civile nucléaire.
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4 April 2023
The OSPAR Convention is the mechanism by which 15 governments and the EU co-operate to prevent and eliminate pollution and protect the maritime area against the adverse effects of human activities ...
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17 May 2023
1963 Brussels Supplementary Convention as Amended in 1964 and 1982 (bilingual)
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12 May 2023
The Aarhus Convention obliges states and grants the public rights in three areas of the convention: access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environme...
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27 October 2023
The Convention on Assistance sets up a framework for states parties to co-operate amongst themselves and with the International Atomic Energy Agency to facilitate prompt assistance in the event of ...
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18 December 2023
The Early Notification Convention establishes a notification system for nuclear accidents that have the potential for an international transboundary release of radioactive material that could be of...
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18 December 2023
The Espoo Convention sets out the obligations of parties to assess the environmental impact of certain activities at an early stage of planning and lays down general obligations of states to notify...
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27 October 2023
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The CSC provides for a global liability and compensation scheme that may supplement that called for under the Paris Convention, the Vienna Convention or Annex state legislation as defined by the CS...
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25 September 2023
The CPPNM establishes measures related to the physical protection of nuclear material used for peaceful purposes during transport, criminalisation of offenses relating to nuclear material and inter...
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27 October 2023
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1963 Brussels Supplementary Convention
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12 May 2023
This COP28 was a historic event for nuclear energy when it was formally specified as one of the solutions to climate change.
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21 December 2023
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10 July 2023
The Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy is led by a Council of Advisors comprised by representatives from about 20 academic institutions in NEA member countries.
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24 May 2023
The NEST Framework comprises several countries and organisations who wish to co-operate through international exchanges and activities to strengthen nuclear-related technology education and training ...
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4 September 2023
Declaration draws on NEA analysis which shows that that tripling nuclear energy capacity by 2050 provides the world with a realistic and practical path to meet net zero carbon emissions goals.
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2 December 2023
The event examines how nuclear safety culture is affected by the national cultural context of the country operating a nuclear facility. It brings together experts representing both the nuclear indust...
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11 September 2023
General introduction to the Country-Specific Safety Culture Forum and CSSCF Japan
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25 November 2022
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24 January 2024
The Programme Review Group is established to perform a programme quality review function within the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) and to provide scientific assistance to the...
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7 July 2022
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Working Group on the Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) aims to contribute to the assessment of the prevention, mitigation and management of accidents, ultim...
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5 October 2023
Following the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, many countries began funding research and development on nuclear fuel designs with enhanced accident tolerance (ATFs). ATFs have i...
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18 July 2022
This Technical Opinion Paper (TOP) studies the emerging use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) as an additional tool for the evaluation of safety cases implying thermal hydraulics. CFD allows a fi...
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11 March 2024
While there is a growing interest in the deployment of small modular reactors (SMRs) as a promising option to help mitigate climate change, further international efforts are needed to accelerate the ...
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10 October 2023
National legislation: Czechia
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27 October 2023
Data available in the JANIS 'NEA' database
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12 February 2024
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18 April 2023
Data Bank Newsletter Archive
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29 June 2023
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14 October 2022
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29 June 2023
NEA DB Services to non-NEA DB countries
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1 June 2023
Experts from 16 countries met on 13-15 September for the 24th annual Working Group on Fuel Safety GFS meeting in Paris.
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27 October 2023
Joint workshop on initiatives of low-dose research co-ordination
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6 February 2024
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24 May 2023
Development started on DATIF, the DATabase for IFpe, in 2018 in order to enhance accessibility to the IFPE legacy collection of integral fuel performance experiments data, jointly put together by the...
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12 April 2023
International Workshop on Medical Radioisotopes Supply
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International Workshop on Medical Radioisotopes Supply
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International Workshop on Medical Radioisotopes Supply
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6 November 2023
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International Workshop on Medical Radioisotopes Supply
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International Workshop on Medical Radioisotopes Supply
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The disposal of long-lived radioactive waste in a deep geological repository (DGR) is a scientifically and technically credible solution that meets the need for long-term safety without reliance on a...
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24 January 2024
The Horonobe International Joint Project (HIP) is a collaborative project between the NEA and Japan Atomic Energy Agency established in February 2023.
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25 April 2023
National legislation: Denmark
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19 September 2023
To ensure reliable modelling of neutron physics within a state-of-the-art transient code, the neutron kinetics part of such a code should be based on the full-scale calculation of the space-time neu...
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19 July 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2021)14
In June 2017, the NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installation (CSNI) approved the Working Group on Risk Assessment (WGRISK) activity Digital I&C PSA – Comparative application of Digital Instr...
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6 February 2024
NEA/CSNI/R(2021)14/ADD
During the 28-30 January 2019 meeting on Digital I&C PSA – Comparative application of Digital Instrumentation and Control (I&C) Modelling Approaches for Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA) hosted b...
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Venue: NH Hotel Berlin Mitte, Leipziger Str. 106-111, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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...
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14 October 2022
The Joint NEA-IAEA Uranium Group discussed latest and future activities during a meeting in Paris.
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26 February 2024
International workshop convened experts in the field to United States.
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20 November 2023
Members of the WGHOF gathered in Vantaa, Finland, for its 33rd meeting.
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25 May 2023
CNRA met to discuss its new structure and future activities.
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14 June 2023
The NEA High-level Group on Low-Dose Research (HLG-LDR) met on 27-28 June 2023.
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6 July 2023
The event gathered 129 participants from 75 international institutions.
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6 October 2022
The WPRS met from 20-24 February 2023.
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17 March 2023
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19 July 2023
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26 August 2022
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11 October 2022
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5 October 2022
View of Dragon Reactor. Photo: AEA Technology.
In 1959, twelve OECD countries began the Dragon Reactor Experiment (DRE) to build a reactor at Winfrith in Dorset, United Kingdom. The Dragon was the fi...
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14 October 2022
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30 September 2022
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21 June 2023
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14 October 2022
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6 October 2022
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22 September 2023
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21 June 2023
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4 May 2023
A new collaboration with the EPRI and the NEA will focus on waste management strategies for small modular reactors.
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26 October 2023
The NEA and the Ministry of Energy Transition of France will host the first government-industry conference.
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27 September 2023
The NEA participated in the European Nuclear Young Generation Forum in Krakow, Poland, an international platform for collaboration between the nuclear sector and the next generation.
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17 May 2023
WPNEM held its 48th meeting in Oslo on 21 November 2023.
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4 December 2023
EGPRS Task Force members met on 3 April 2023.
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7 April 2023
Workshop gathers global experts to better understand the situation in Ukraine and increase co-operation.
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21 December 2023
The Convention on the Establishment of a Security Control in the Field of Nuclear Energy ("Security Control Convention") and the Protocol on the Tribunal established by the Security Control Conventio...
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12 January 2023
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12 May 2023
Krakow, Poland
The ENYGF is a biennial event that alternates with the International Youth Nuclear Congress (IYNC). The ENYGF’s objective is to provide a network for international communication and sharing knowledge...
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7 March 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)2
In order to reach a better understanding of countries’ different approaches to the evaluation of vibrations detected in piping systems and components, the NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Insta...
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15 February 2023
Joint workshop on initiatives of low-dose research co-ordination
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6 February 2024
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24 May 2023
All Global Forum meetings, events and conferences are listed on this page.
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24 May 2023
A list of NEST events, conferences, workshops and summer schools organised in the context of ongoing NEST projects.
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24 May 2023
Fourth Country-Specific Safety Culture Forum brings together operators, regulators, local governments, international observers.
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21 December 2023
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.
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13 December 2022
The Expert Group on Small and Modular Reactors (EGSMR) continues to make progress with its forthcoming report
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8 July 2022
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4 May 2023
NEA/NSC/R(2019)7
The modelling and simulation of nuclear systems allow scientists and engineers to probe aspects of the operation of these systems beyond what has been precisely measured. This has numerous applicatio...
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11 October 2022
NEA/NSC/R(2022)6
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...
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15 September 2023
PKL facility. Photo: FRAMATOME, Germany
The Experimental Thermal Hydraulics for Analysis, Research and Innovations in Nuclear Safety (ETHARINUS) project serves the objectives of investigating phenome...
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9 December 2022
CHIP experimental facility to study fission product transport and deposition in the primary circuit. Photo: IRSN
Following several years of experimental research in the field of source terms analysis...
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21 October 2022
The Expert Group on a Data and Information Management Strategy for the Safety Case (EGSSC) shall address activities that help RWMOs to describe and better understand the data and information they hol...
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18 July 2023
The HDCS will develop a holistic process for decision making and provide guidelines to allow an integral progression from recognition to resolution, to support the decommissioning and management of c...
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28 August 2023
The expert group primarily acted as a forum for scientific and technical information exchange on advanced light water reactor (LWR) fuels with enhanced accident tolerance.
Published date:
18 October 2022
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.
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12 July 2022
The EGCDL will address costing issues for decommissioning of nuclear installations and legacy management as a level three expert group.
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22 August 2023
Under the guidance of the Working Party on Materials Science Issues in Nuclear Fuels and Structural Materials (WPFM), the Expert Group on Fuel Materials (EGFM) focuses on materials science aspects of...
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3 March 2023
The EGOE facilitates an active and timely exchange of operating experience information to establish, implement, assess, and continuously improve regulatory oversight practices and programmes.
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16 February 2024
Under the guidance of the Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS), the Expert Group on Physics of Reactor Systems (EGPRS) performs specific tasks associa...
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6 December 2023
The Expert Group on Public Communication of Nuclear Regulatory Organisations (EGPC) is responsible for supporting and advising the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) in carrying out it...
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2 February 2024
Created in 2019, under the guidance of the Working Party on Scientific Issues of Reactor Systems (WPRS) the expert group will perform specific tasks associated with core thermal-hydraulics aspects of...
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6 December 2023
Under the guidance of the Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS) the expert group performs specific tasks associated with fuel performance aspects of pr...
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8 March 2023
The Expert Group on Reactor Systems Multi-Physics (EGMUP) advances the state of the art in establishing processes and procedures for certifying experimental data and benchmarking multi-physics multi-...
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6 December 2023
With the growing importance of SMRs, following the proposal of the CSNI Bureau, the CSNI has decided to create an Expert Group on SMRs (EGSMR), at its 69th meeting held on 2-3 June 2021.
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7 April 2023
Under the guidance of the Working Party on Materials Science Issues in Nuclear Fuels and Structural Materials (WPFM), the Expert Group on Structural Materials (EGSM) focuses on materials science aspe...
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3 March 2023
The EGRRS supports NEA member countries to optimise the development of national radioactive waste management and decommissioning programmes through the application of robotic and remote systems.
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19 March 2024
Expert groups on structural and fuel materials meet to advance materials science activities
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24 February 2023
The fourth FACE meeting brought together experts to Cologne, Germany.
Published date:
27 February 2024
Updates from the NEA Working Group on Reactor Oversight
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18 March 2024
The NEA Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety (WPNCS) held its bi-annual meetings in June 2023
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24 July 2023
Around 50 delegates from 22 countries and 2 international organisations gathered on 6-7 June 2023 for the 73rd CSNI meeting.
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14 June 2023
Forty nuclearexperts came together to explore the latest developments in preparations for the LTO beyond sixty years of existing nuclear power plants.
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27 March 2024
Paris Convention Exposé des Motifs - Bilingual (with disclosure)
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29 March 2023
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8 December 2023
Camden, New Jersey, United States
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...
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22 January 2024
Some 100 international experts convened in New Jersey, U.S for the Workshop on Extended Storage and Transportation of Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste from Current and Future Reactor Technologies.
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21 December 2023
The NEA Committee on Decommissioning of Nuclear Installations and Legacy Management (CDLM) and the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of the International Co-operative Programme for the Exchange of Scien...
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30 November 2022
NEST Fellows can be Master’s students, PhDs, postdoctoral researchers, young professionals, etc. belonging to one of the NEST project’s participating organisations.
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24 May 2023
The FIDES-II framework is designed to do more than just produce data on transient fuel behavior and safety related issues.
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13 June 2023
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19 April 2023
National legislation: Finland
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19 September 2023
The Fire Incidents Records Exchange (FIRE) Project started in 2002 and phase 7 of the project began in 2023 for a duration of three years, with 14 countries currently participating. The main purpose ...
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23 November 2023
Electrical cable fire test, IRSN.
The NEA PRISME project addressed in a series of 3 phases from 2006 till 2022 fire risk research. Operating experience shows that fire is one of the highest risks i...
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4 October 2023
Scheme of the DIVA Facility, IRSN
The Fire Risk Assessment through Innovative Research Project is a follow-up of the PRISME project series which addresses new fire scenarios and new topics of inter...
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31 August 2023
The benchmark will predict the Critical Heat Flux (CHF).
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22 November 2023
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23 May 2023
Online training & in-person event on 22-23 May 2023 in Bologna, Italy
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11 December 2023
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21 April 2023
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21 April 2023
Phase I - “How to better formulate problems for holistic, inclusive and sustainable decision making?”
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4 January 2023
The first QUENCH-ATF joint project test was successfully completed by the KIT team on 17 July 2022.
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5 August 2022
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2 March 2023
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22 June 2023
NEA, Paris, France
Date: 20-22 June 2023
Place: OECD/NEA Headquarters
46, Quai Alphonse Le Gallo
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt (Paris) - FRANCE
Minimum enrollment: 8 participants
Maximum enrollment: 16 participan...
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1 June 2023
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20 June 2024
NEA, Paris, France
Date: 18-20 June 2024
Place: OECD/NEA Headquarters
46, Quai Alphonse Le Gallo
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt (Paris) - FRANCE
Minimum enrollment: 10 participants
Maximum enrollment: 16 participa...
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12 March 2024
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10 November 2023
NEA, Paris, France
Date: 6-10 November 2023
Place: OECD/NEA Headquarters
46, Quai Alphonse Le Gallo
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt (Paris) - FRANCE
Minimum enrollment: 15 participants
Maximum enrollment: 20 partic...
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14 September 2023
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4 March 2024
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5 February 2024
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7 March 2024
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6 December 2022
The NEA participated in the 14th Clean Energy Ministerial in Goa, India.
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25 July 2023
Forsmark 1 and 2 Boiling Water Reactor Stability Benchmark
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2 August 2022
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 and enhancing stakeholder engagem...
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11 March 2024
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17 November 2023
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4 May 2023
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19 April 2023
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27 September 2024
Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, United States
Context of the workshop
Since its inception, the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has served as a flexible and powerful platform for multinational research co-operation, particularly in areas related to n...
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5 February 2024
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5 February 2024
The Frameworks Agreement provides a legal framework designed to promote co-operation in the field of the safety of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste management in the Russian Federation dealin...
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17 November 2023
Nuclear legislation: France
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19 September 2023
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24 May 2024
NEA, Paris, France
Date: 21-24 May 2024
Place: OECD/NEA headquarters
46, Quai Alphonse Le Gallo
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt (Paris) - FRANCE
Minimum enrollment: 8 participants
Maximum enrollment: 22 participant...
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13 March 2024
On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake of magnitude 9.0 on the Richter scale jolted the eastern coast of Japan. An hour after the earthquake, a 14-15 m tsunami, as estimated at the Fukushima Daiichi ...
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9 March 2023
Appearance of Unit 1 and 2 reactor buildings at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (June 2022). Photo: Japan Nuclear Regulation Authority
The FACE projec...
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17 October 2022
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10 March 2023
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10 March 2023
Female scientists and engineers pioneered the nuclear and radiological fields, with leaders and innovators such as Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Lise Meitner, among many others, establishing the foundat...
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8 March 2023
The GB-TG discussed the latest data, actions and objectives as part of their mission to improve gender balance in the nuclear energy sector.
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10 October 2022
Nuclear legislation: Germany
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19 September 2023
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8 July 2022
Reims, France
The current energy supply crisis is reprioritising energy projects and accelerating plans for nuclear power development. Furthermore, it requires creating resilient nuclear energy systems for which t...
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13 August 2021
This Global Forum Working Group focuses on activities to increase the number of women in the nuclear field.
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25 May 2023
Co-Chair: Raul Barrachina (left), National Atomic Energy Commission and Kenichi Ishikawa (right), University of Tokyo
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25 May 2023
Co-Chair: Emanuela Colombo (left), Politecnico di Milano and Edward Obbard (right), The University of New South Wales Sydney (UNSW)
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25 May 2023
Co-Chair: Ian Farnan (left), University of Cambridge and Man-Sung Yim (right), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
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25 May 2023
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28 August 2023
NEA and French Ministry for Energy Transition hosted Roadmaps to New Nuclear conference.
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29 September 2023
French Ministry for Energy Transition and OECD Nuclear Energy Agency to hold joint conference in Paris.
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26 July 2023
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19 October 2022
Halden Hammlab research facility for human factor research.
The NEA Halden HTO Project is a continuation of Man-Technology-Organisation (MTO) research carried out for more than 40 years as part of t...
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22 March 2024
The Halden Reactor Project has been in operation at the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) in Norway since 1958 and is the oldest NEA joint project. It brings together a large international techni...
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17 October 2022
This handbook makes international guidance on estimating decommissioning costs more accessible by compiling material from two key reports: the International Structure for Decommissioning Costing (ISD...
Published date:
8 February 2024
Heavy liquid metals such as lead or lead-bismuth have been proposed and investigated as coolants for fast reactors since the 1950s. More recently, there has been renewed interest worldwide in the use...
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26 January 2024
Members of the Expert Group on comparison and understanding of Dose Prognosis (EGDP) met on 5-6 October 2022
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25 October 2022
High Burnup Experiments in Reactivity Initiated Accident (HERA) is dedicated to the understanding of LWR fuel performance at high burn-up under reactivity-initiated accidents (RIA).
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6 March 2023
A cabinet containing copper bus before the HEAF test (left) and after the test(right). Source: NRC
Massive electrical discharges, referred to as high energy arcing faults (HEAF), have occurred in nuc...
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19 April 2023
The overall objective of the High-level Group on Low Dose Research (HLG-LDR) is to support radiological protection policy, regulation and implementation choices by improving the effectiveness and eff...
Published date:
12 May 2023
The CRPPH held its annual meeting on 4-6 April 2023 at the NEA premises in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
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21 April 2023
Illustration of the Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory and locations of the in situ experiments planned in each of the three HIP Joint Project task
The Horonobe International Project (HIP) is a...
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13 October 2023
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21 October 2022
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8 September 2022
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24 October 2022
The NEA Data Bank distributes nuclear computer codes and processed nuclear data libraries to eligible IAEA Member countries upon request. Requesters in this category are encouraged to familiarise t...
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27 January 2023
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9 November 2022
This report from the NEA Working Group on Human and Organisational Performance establishes a common understanding around the terms human performance (HP), organisational performance (OP), and human a...
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10 October 2022
Nuclear legislation: Hungary
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19 September 2023
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3 November 2022
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3 November 2022
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28 November 2023
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9 February 2024
Preliminary programme of the ICGR-7: Empowering Progress in Developing Deep Geological Repositories
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9 February 2024
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20 February 2024
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5 March 2024
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20 February 2024
The Technical Review Groups for both projects met at the NEA headquarters on 3-7 April 2023.
Published date:
24 April 2023
This page contains a list of the International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) participants and evaluations if any.
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10 November 2022
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29 August 2023
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7 December 2022
The Integration Group for the Safety Case (IGSC) has been organising a series of symposia every five years focusing on the development of a competent and robust safety case since 2007, in co‑operatio...
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21 November 2023
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30 November 2023
NEA/NSC/R(2022)2
Under the guidance of the NEA Nuclear Science Committee (NSC), the Expert Group on Improvement of Integral Experiments Data for Minor Actinide Management (EGIEMAM-II) was established to recommend nec...
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4 March 2024
“Improving Cross-disciplinary and Transversal Skills for the Severe Accidents Community” approved by NEST Management Board.
Published date:
18 December 2023
In capacity building and gender balance, a key goal is to attract and retain more women in the technology and science fields by promoting education and development in those areas.
Published date:
8 June 2023
On 11-12 October 2023, the NEA Task Group on Improving the Gender Balance in the Nuclear Sector (GB-TG) met in Paris to discuss ongoing work and future activities.
Published date:
24 November 2023
8 March 2023
13:30-15:00 CET, Online
Female scientists and engineers pioneered the nuclear and radiological fields, with leaders and innovators such as Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Lise Meitner, among many others, establishing the foundat...
Published date:
10 February 2023
The NEA hosted the 32nd meeting of the ISOE Management Board.
Published date:
18 January 2023
Thermodynamic databases and accident prevention
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24 February 2023
TCOFF-2 members discuss future activities.
Published date:
10 July 2023
Pierre Strohl, former Deputy Director-General of the NEA, has passed away.
Published date:
30 December 2022
This structural materials Joint Experimental Program (JEEP) is aimed at developing the capability to perform a variety of in-core mechanical testing measurements.
Published date:
13 January 2023
The INCA experiments will provide comparative data on the irradiation induced creep of current Zr alloys and Cr coated samples
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15 November 2023
Nuclear legislation: India
Published date:
19 September 2023
The Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) Project provides a forum for radiological protection (RP) professionals from nuclear electricity utilities and national regulatory authorities w...
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21 February 2024
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9 May 2023
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8 February 2024
Innovations in nuclear safety thermal-hydraulics
Published date:
26 June 2023
29 November 2022 -
1 December 2022
NEA premises, France
Picture: ANSTO
This event has now finished. Speaker presentations are available for download using the links in the 'Download' section.
NEA article reporting on this workshop:
Examining new technolog...
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5 May 2023
Ahmad Sleiman, a PhD student in neurotoxicology at IRSN, talks about his NEST Framework Fellowship.
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10 October 2023
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15 March 2024
Paris, France
Photo credit: Joel A. Kulesza, Roger Lee Martz, LANL LA-UR-17-23854
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26 January 2024
NEA workshop addresses the importance of a secure supply chain of medical radioisotopes to save lives.
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30 November 2023
Scheme showing the technical scope of NEA ICDE project activities, NEA
Common-cause failure (CCF) events can significantly affect the availability of safety systems of nuclear power plants. In recog...
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30 November 2022
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29 May 2024
Avignon, France
Long-term decommissioning programmes of nuclear facilities (NPPs, fuel cycle plants, research facilities, etc.) are major stakes for the nuclear industry, and innovation initiatives are needed.
This ...
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12 March 2024
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17 August 2023
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
The International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2023) is a part of a series of topical meetings organised by the Mathematics and ...
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27 May 2021
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6 October 2023
Sendai International Center, Miyagi, Japan
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...
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13 December 2022
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29 July 2022
Sacramento, United States
The conference serves as the main forum for the international community of experimentalists, theorists, evaluators and users of nuclear data to come together to review progress and identify outstandi...
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31 January 2022
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19 May 2023
Vienna, Austria
Purpose and objectives
The purpose of the event is to discuss achievements, challenges and lessons learnt in the decommissioning of nuclear facilities, highlighting current priority needs and sharing...
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10 January 2023
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10 January 2023
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9 September 2022
Geneva, Switzerland
The conference offers an opportunity to stakeholders involved in the implementation, management and development of occupational radiation protection policies to share and discuss experiences.
The con...
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9 November 2021
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10 November 2023
Vienna, Austria
The purpose of the event is to provide a forum for fostering the exchange of information, experiences, and anticipated future developments in the interrelationships between safety and sustainable dev...
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10 January 2023
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21 October 2022
Vienna, Austria
The IAEA International Conferences on Topical Issues in Nuclear Installation Safety (TIC) are organised periodically bringing together nuclear safety regulators, plant designers and operators, techni...
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1 June 2022
The Nuclear Terrorism Convention's main objective relates to the criminalisation of a number of nuclear and radioactive material related offences, the establishment of jurisdiction over these offen...
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24 January 2024
The Terrorist Bombings Convention's objective is to enhance international co-operation among states in devising and adopting effective and practical measures for the prevention of acts of terrorism...
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27 October 2023
The Terrorist Financing Convention's objective is to enhance international co-operation among states in devising and adopting effective measures for the prevention of the financing of terrorism, as...
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21 November 2023
The NEA performs depositary functions on behalf of the OECD Secretary-General for diverse international agreements.
Published date:
26 January 2023
The primary purpose of the International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) is to compile critical and subcritical benchmark experiment data into a standardised format that allo...
Published date:
10 November 2022
The International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) Handbook contains criticality safety benchmark specifications that have been derived from experiments that were performed at...
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10 November 2022
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16 November 2023
Office for Nuclear Regulation, Merton Road, Bootle, Merseyside L20 7HS, United Kingdom
The workshop on the Approaches to design, implementation and operation of electrical systems for beyond design basis equipment and management of geomagnetically induced currents in electrical systems...
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22 June 2023
FACE project members met on 28-30 June 2023 in Paris, France.
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24 July 2023
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3 November 2023
Labadi Beach Hotel, Accra, Ghana
The International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation (IFNEC) hosted its first Ministerial Conference since the COVID-19 pandemic on 1-3 November 2023. Organised in co-operation with the Ghana A...
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21 August 2023
Description of the contents of the IFPE collection, maintained by the NEA and the IAEA.
Published date:
19 April 2023
International Fuel Performance Experiments (IFPE) is a data collection of nuclear fuel performance experiments for the purpose of code development and validation.
Published date:
18 January 2024
Guidance to request the data collection of nuclear fuel performance experiments for the purpose of code development and validation.
Published date:
19 April 2023
The 2021 edition contains data from 169 experimental series that were performed at 57 nuclear facilities.
Published date:
13 December 2022
The International Handbook of Evaluated Reactor Physics Benchmark Experiments (IRPhE) contains reactor physics benchmark specifications that have been derived from experiments that were performed at ...
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9 November 2022
International Mentoring Workshop in Spain
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26 October 2022
A delegation led by NEA Director-General William D. Magwood, IV attended the conference on 26-28 October 2022.
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16 November 2022
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28 October 2022
Washington DC, USA
The conference will provide a forum for ministers, policymakers, senior officials and experts to engage in high-level dialogue on the role of nuclear energy in the transition to clean energy sources,...
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13 August 2021
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28 October 2022
Washington DC, United States
The 2021 International Nuclear Law Congress has been postponed to 2022. As the principal INLA gathering, held every two years, the Congress serves as the leading international conference for represen...
Published date:
27 April 2022
The International Nuclear Law Essentials (INLE) is a one-week programme run by the NEA covering practical issues in international nuclear law.
Published date:
26 February 2024
27 February 2023 -
3 March 2023
OECD Conference Centre, Paris
Applications are closed
Programme
The 2023 International Nuclear Law Essentials (INLE) programme will be conducted under the leadership of Paul Bowden, Honorary Professor of Law at the Nottingham La...
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7 February 2023
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8 March 2024
OECD Conference Centre, Paris
4-8 March 2024
The application period is now closed.
Programme
The 2024 International Nuclear Law Essentials (INLE) programme will be conducted under the leadership of Paul Bowden, Honorary Professo...
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1 February 2024
International Nuclear Law Essentials (INLE) course took place on 4-8 March.
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19 March 2024
The CRPPH has long served as a forum for exchange and co-operation, to establish best practices, contribute to the development of the key recommendations of the International Commission on Radiologic...
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18 March 2024
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18 August 2023
Stockholm University, Sweden
The 2023 edition of the IRPS took place in person in Stockholm, Sweden from 14-18 August 2023, in co-operation with the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) and the Centre for Radiation Protectio...
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2 October 2023
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16 August 2024
Stockholm University, Sweden
The 2024 edition of the IRPS will be held in person at Stockholm University, Sweden, from 12-16 August 2024, in co-operation with the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) and the Centre for Radia...
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18 March 2024
The International School of Nuclear Law (ISNL) is a two-week programme run annually by the NEA and the University of Montpellier and supported by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Coveri...
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28 March 2024
21 August 2023 -
1 September 2023
Montpellier, France
The application period for the 2023 session is now closed.
Published date:
7 September 2023
26 August 2024 -
6 September 2024
Montpellier, France
Application deadline extended: 8 April
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28 March 2024
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9 November 2023
Introduction to the International School of Nuclear Law (ISNL)
Published date:
26 January 2023
22 August 2022 -
2 September 2022
Montpellier
The application period for the 2022 session is closed.
Information about the 2023 programme will be available in the fall.
Published date:
20 April 2022
ISNL 2023 gathered 60 graduate students and professionals from across the world.
Published date:
11 September 2023
The International School on Simulation of Nuclear Reactor Systems (SINUS) provides hybrid, hands-on-training encompassing multiphysics modelling and simulation (M&S) and associated validation, verifi...
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21 December 2023
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6 December 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2021)9
This synthesis report summarises the technical programme and the outcome of the 2018 International Severe Accident Management Conference (ISAMC-2018) organised in Ottawa, Ontario on 15-18 October 201...
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11 December 2023
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17 May 2023
International Convention Center (ICC), Jeju, Korea
The International workshop on disruptive technologies for nuclear safety applications is one of the most significant digital innovation events of the year. This two-day workshop was held on 16-17 May...
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9 May 2023
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17 November 2023
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852, United States
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10 October 2023
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31 October 2023
OECD Conference Centre, Paris, France
Current status and future actions to ensure the reliable supply for molybdenum-99 (99Mo), and a conversation on a new generation of innovative radioisotopes for diagnostics and therapy
The NEA hosted...
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10 November 2023
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4 October 2022
OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, 46 Quai Alphonse le Gallo, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
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3 November 2022
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13 September 2023
IRSN, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
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4 September 2023
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6 June 2023
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States
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20 April 2023
International experts gathered at the NEA for the commencement of the third phase TAF-ID on 16-17 February 2023.
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24 February 2023
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6 December 2022
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8 March 2024
Paris, France
Photo credit: Joel A. Kulesza, LANL LA-UR-21-25545
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26 January 2024
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13 April 2023
Online training course
Dates: 12-13 April 2023
- Wednesday, 12 April 2023: lectures
- Thursday, 13 April 2023: practice
Location: Online course, 9:00-13:00 (CEST, UTC+02:00, Paris time)
Course fee: 50 EUR
Registration de...
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8 March 2023
NEA/NSC/R(2021)4
The understanding of nuclear physics and the associated uncertainties is essential to the modelling of all nuclear systems. Nuclear reaction probabilities, emitted particle energies and angles, fissi...
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8 February 2023
NEA webinars explore a common understanding of optimisation as an approach to decision making.
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8 February 2023
The International Reactor Physics Experiment Evaluation (IRPhE) Technical Review Group provides the nuclear community with qualified benchmark data sets by collecting reactor physics experimental dat...
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10 November 2022
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30 January 2023
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2 February 2023
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14 February 2024
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14 February 2024
The International School of Nuclear Law (ISNL) Commemorative Brochure highlights the history, academics and unique features of the ISNL that contribute to the "Spirit of Montpellier". In addition, th...
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19 January 2024
JANIS (Java-based nuclear information software) is an application designed to facilitate the visualisation and manipulation of nuclear data. JANIS will be helpful to engineers and physicists who use ...
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24 November 2022
JANIS TRANS Checker is a command line tool for EXFOR compilers to check PRELIM or TRANS files and reports potential deviations from EXFOR coding rules.
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30 November 2023
National legislation: Japan
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19 September 2023
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21 April 2023
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21 November 2022
The Joint Convention is an incentive convention that aims to, inter alia, achieve and a high level of safety worldwide in spent fuel and radioactive waste management, through the enhancement of nat...
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6 December 2023
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24 October 2024
Paris, France
The Joint International Conference on Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications + Monte Carlo (SNA + MC 2024) is a long-standing conference that focuses on high-performance software development and use....
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17 January 2023
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1 September 2022
Iwaki Business Innovation Center, Fukushima, Japan
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...
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17 August 2022
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6 October 2023
Austria, Vienna
Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) technologies are attracting great interest in the public and private sectors for a broad spectrum of applications worldwide. Most efforts at the international level are devo...
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31 May 2023
Image adapted from Romolo Tavani, Shutterstock.
Exploring how innovative nuclear systems require innovative waste management solutions
The new NEA Joint Project on Waste Integration for Small and Adv...
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7 March 2024
The Joint Protocol acts as a bridge between the Paris and Vienna Conventions, effectively extending the benefits provided by one convention to victims in countries that have joined the other conven...
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5 January 2024
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26 June 2024
NEA headquarters, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
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20 March 2024
This benchmark was a continuation of the V1000CT activities and defined a coupled code problem for further validation of thermal-hydraulics system codes for application with Russian-designed VVER-100...
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19 July 2022
Nuclear legislation: Korea
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19 September 2023
Improving gender balance in nuclear
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8 March 2023
Lead-cooled Fast Reactors (LFR) are rather new concepts which have gathered increasing international attention after the Generation-IV International Forum (GIF) selected them as promising candidates ...
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9 June 2023
There are many types of legal challenges that can be raised in the context of the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Each country’s framework for legal challenges related to the peaceful use of nuclear...
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20 March 2024
The legislation country reports provide comprehensive information on the regulatory and institutional framework governing nuclear activities in OECD and NEA member countries.
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27 October 2023