The NEA launched the Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework in partnership with its member countries to help address important gaps in nuclear skills capacity building, knowledge t...
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24 May 2023
The Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy acts as an inclusive network of experts in the nuclear energy sector, primarily from academia, focused on enabling the generation...
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24 May 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
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24 May 2023
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law.
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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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24 May 2023
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24 May 2023
The Halden Reactor Project has been in operation since 1958 and is the oldest NEA joint project. It brings together an important international technical network in the area of nuclear safety ranging ...
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23 May 2023
National legislation: Republic of Türkiye
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22 May 2023
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Busan, Korea
The opening session of the Sixth International Conference on Geological Repositories (ICGR-6) in Helsinki, Finland. Photo: Krystal Kenney
There is consensus within the international scientific commun...
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17 May 2023
The CTBT bans all nuclear explosions anywhere on Earth whether for military or peaceful purposes.
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17 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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17 May 2023
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17 May 2023
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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17 May 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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17 May 2023
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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17 May 2023
The Kiev Protocol requires states to evaluate the consequences of their official draft plans and programmes, and, to the extent appropriate, policies and legislation that are likely to have signifi...
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17 May 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
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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17 May 2023
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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17 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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17 May 2023
The Paris Convention establishes a nuclear liability and compensation regime to compensate victims of a nuclear accident. The PC is open to OECD member countries as of right and non-member countrie...
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17 May 2023
The Vienna Convention establishes a nuclear liability and compensation regime similar to that provided for under the Paris Convention. The Vienna Convention is open to any state.
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17 May 2023
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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17 May 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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17 May 2023
The 1997 Vienna Protocol improves the original regime by requiring that more money be made available to compensate more victims for a broad range of damages.
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17 May 2023
Aims to prohibit all nuclear weapon activities, including the development, testing, production, acquisition, possession, stockpiling, use, or threats to use nuclear weapons.
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17 May 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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17 May 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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17 May 2023
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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17 May 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
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Zanhotel Europa, Via Cesare Boldini 11, Bologna, Italy + virtual option on ZOOM
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17 May 2023
Image: QUENCH facility at KIT. Court. KIT.
The purpose of the QUENCH-ATF project is to investigate the chemical, mechanical and thermal-hydraulics behaviour of ATF claddings in Design Basis Accident...
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17 May 2023
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NEA, Paris (France)
Place: OECD/NEA Headquarters in Paris, France
Minimum enrollment required: 12 participants
Course fee: 2300 EUR
Registration closed
The training course will be taught in English.
Participan...
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17 May 2023
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NFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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17 May 2023
The Working Group supports improved uses of Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA) in risk-informed regulation and safety management through the analysis of results and the development of perspectives...
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20 July 2022
The NEA nuclear science programme is developed and executed by the Nuclear Science Committee (NSC), comprising high-level scientific experts from all NEA member countries.
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15 May 2023
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
NEA/NSC/R(2021)3
Monte Carlo criticality calculations involve a two-step procedure based on a stochastic implementation of the power iteration method: first, achieve convergence of the fission source distribution dur...
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17 February 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
NEA/CSNI/R(2021)3
Recent operating experience in nuclear power plants has shown that there is a safety concern associated with the use of new industrial devices, including digital devices, in safety power systems in b...
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15 May 2023
Structure des comités et organes subsidiaires de l’Agence pour l’énergie nucléaire, mai 2023.
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4 October 2022
NEA Committee Structure, May 2023
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4 October 2022
Information note on nuclear power installations in Ukraine, updated periodically.
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12 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 Con...
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12 May 2023
1963 Brussels Supplementary Convention as Amended in 1964 and 1982 (bilingual)
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12 May 2023
1964 Protocol to Amend 1963 Brussels Supplementary Convention
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12 May 2023
1982 Protocol to Amend 1963 Brussels Supplementary Convention
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12 May 2023