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 ...

The annual Benchmark Workshop of the Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems will be hosted in 2023 by the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy ...

Under the guidance of the  Nuclear Science Committee (NSC) , the Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS) studies the reactor physics, fuel performance, ...

This training course focuses on communicating risk on a daily basis. Its aim is to improve the effectiveness of risk communication in order to enhance public understanding.

Over three days participan...

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The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Working Party on Technical, Environmental and Safety Aspects of Decommissioning and Legacy Management (WPTES) is organising an international workshop on...

How can knowledge of high-level radioactive waste existence, nature and history be passed on to future generations? The NEA Expert Group on Awareness Preservation (EGAP) has been focusing on this que...

PHITS (Particle and Heavy Ion Transport code System) is a general purpose Monte Carlo particle transport simulation code developed under a collaboration between Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and ...

Due to circumstances imposed by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this year's event will take place online.

The 6^th edition of the annual NEA TDB course on the topic of thermodynamic data collection a...

More information will be available soon.

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The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) are organising an international workshop on the implementation of radioact...

The NEA Committee on Radiological Protection and Public Health (CRPPH) through its Expert Group on Recovery Management (EGRM) invites all interested stakeholders to a workshop Preparedness for post-n...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

The Working Group on Fuel Cycle Safety (WGFCS) of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) will hold an international workshop on Process and Safety Imp...

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...

The 15th workshop on Shielding aspects of Accelerators, Targets, and Irradiation Facilities (SATIF) is tentatively planned to be held in East Lansing, Michigan, USA, on 20-23 September 2022. The SATI...

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), Idaho National Laboratory, and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are co-organising the Sixth International Workshop on Structural Materials for Innovativ...

Nuclear Education, Science, Technology (NEST) Building competence, Expert knowledge, Applied techniques, Safe decommissioning, Train fellows (BEAST) summer school "Expert Knowledge – Research and Dev...

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...

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...

The application period for the 2022 session is closed.

Information about the 2023 programme will be available in the fall.

The NEA Data Bank Computer Program Service (CPS) has been conducting training activities for more than 30 years. These courses provide a unique opportunity to bring together code users from around th...

The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law.

The goal of the LOCA-MIR experiments is to study the behaviour of high burnup, gadolinia-doped fuel under design-basis LOCA conditions.

Information note on nuclear power installations in Ukraine, updated periodically

The NEST Secretariat monitors the progress of the different NEST Projects, supports the Management Board in the Monitoring and Evaluation process and provides the interface between the NEST Projects ...

The proposed NEST project BEAST addresses postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and young professionals, who intend to work in the field of Nuclear Decommissioning and Waste Management. The...

The objective of the Working Group on Fuel Cycle Safety (WGFCS) is to advance the understanding of relevant aspects of nuclear fuel cycle safety, including: uranium mining and milling; uranium refini...

The main mission of the Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) is to advance the current understanding of the relevant aspects related with ensuring the integrity...

High-temperature gas-cooled nuclear reactors are one of the next generation reactor designs. This benchmark consists consists in a multi-staged code-to-code-to-data thermal hydraulics code validation...

The first QUENCH-ATF joint project test was successfully completed by the KIT team on 17 July 2022.

The Shielding Integral Benchmark Archive and Database (SINBAD) database contains compilations for 46 reactor shielding, 31 fusion neutronics and 23 accelerator shielding experiments.

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...

NEA hosted two workshops in Romania on 25-29 July 2022.

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.

This benchmark incorporated full 3-D modelling of the reactor core into system transient codes for best-estimate simulations of the interactions between reactor core behaviour and plant dynamics and ...

Forsmark 1 and 2 Boiling Water Reactor Stability Benchmark

NUPEC Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) Full-size Fine-mesh Bundle Test (BFBT) Benchmark

A number of tests with detail well documented neutronics and thermal-hydraulics measurements data have been performed at the Rostov Unit 2 (Rostov-2) nuclear power plant (NPP). The reactor type is a ...

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...

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 ...

The overall objective of the VVER-1000 Coolant Transient (V1000CT) Benchmark was to assess computer codes used in the safety analysis of water-water energetic reactor (VVER) power plants, specificall...

The Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS) studies the reactor physics, fuel performance, and radiation transport and shielding in present and future nu...

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...

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-...

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...

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...

The NEA Data Bank organised a PENELOPE training course at the University of Barcelona in Spain on 11-15 July 2022

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The NEST HYMERES project addresses safety-relevant phenomena in containments during accidents. It offers hands-on training opportunities during the experimental test campaigns carried at the PSI PAND...

An NEA delegation led by Director-General William D. Magwood, IV, visited Japan from 18-24 July for a number of nuclear-energy focused meetings and events.

Over its 25 years of existence, the working party has contributed many topics and has led advances in criticality safety studies.

The Multinational Design Evaluation Programme (MDEP) continues under a new organisational structure after the second Management Board meeting.

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The new project assembled global experts at the NEA.

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...

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...

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...

The NEA Nuclear Law Committee and the Contracting Parties to the Paris Convention held their meetings to discuss key issues and future work in the field of nuclear law.

This workshop is organised by the NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) and hosted by the Nuclear and Radioactive Waste Agency (ANDR), Romania.

At the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle, ...

The main mission of the Working Group on Fuel Safety (WGFS) is to advance the current understanding and address cross-cutting issues related to fuel behaviour in accident conditions, including work o...

TVA Watts Bar Unit 1 Multi-Physics Benchmark

The Liquid Metal Fast Reactor (LFMR) is one of the next generation reactor designs. This benchmark consists of steady-state numerical predictions of Texas A&M University (TAMU) separate effect tests ...

Multi-physics Pellet Cladding Mechanical Interaction Validation (MPCMIV) Benchmark

Building on the NEA BFBT and PSBT benchmarks, McMaster University, in collaboration with North Carolina State University, launched a CANDU thermal-hydraulic benchmark under the WPRS Expert Group on U...

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...

PWR MOX/UO2 Core Transient Benchmark

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...

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...

The NEA Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy Workshop was held on 19-20 July 2022 at Mita Kaigisho Conference Centre in Tokyo, Japan.

Organised in co-operation with Japan...

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...

National legislation: Republic of Türkiye

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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 proje...

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.

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,...

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...

The Expert Group on Small and Modular Reactors (EGSMR) continues to make progress with its forthcoming report 

The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law. It provides readers with authoritative and comprehensive information o...

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...

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...

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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Participants at the first in-person course held by the NEA Data Bank since the pandemic started,  21- 23 June 2022. 

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

In 2019, the NEA Committee on Radiological Protection and Public Health's(CRPPH) Working Party on Nuclear Emergency Matters (WPNEM) created the Expert Group on Non‑radiological Public Health Aspects ...

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 ...

In the aftermath of the Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accidents, the notion of sustainable recovery from nuclear or radiological accidents has been at the centre of attention for the intern...

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État d’avancement des ratifications ou des adhésions à la Convention de Paris sur la responsabilité civile nucléaire.

This benchmark is organised to examine the models for fission gas release during anticipated operational occurrences (AOOs).

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Nuclear emergency preparedness and response management are essential components to ensure safety and radiation protection in any nuclear or non-nuclear country. While international guidelines for eme...

Building on the success of the previous events held in August 2020 and June 2021, the NEA hosted a Global Commencement ceremony on 29 June 2022 to congratulate the graduating nuclear engineering and ...

The NEA Framework for Irradiation Experiments (FIDES) supports the fuel and material experimental needs of nuclear safety regulators, technical support organisations, research institutions and indust...

NEA Task Group on Improving the Gender Balance in the Nuclear Sector met to make progress on a forthcoming report on gender balance in the nuclear sector.

Table on Application of the Paris Convention to non-metropolitan territories of the Contracting Parties (English version)

Table on Application of the Paris Convention to non-metropolitan territories of the Contracting Parties (French version)

P2M includes in-pile tests and Post-Irradiated Examinations in Hot-Laboratory to assess the operational margins at high power.

The FIDES framework is designed to do more than just produce data on transient fuel behavior and safety related issues. 

The INCA experiments will provide comparative data on the irradiation induced creep of current Zr alloys and Cr coated samples

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).

The EGFSF will work on harmonising post-accident food safety management approaches to build and maintain producer and retailer’s accountability and consumer trust.

The NEA Data Bank's first in-person course since the pandemic started was on FISPACT, an enhanced multi-physics platform for neutron, proton, alpha, deuteron or gamma particle interactions.

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To learn how to handle NaK, a group of experts at the Research Centre Rez (CVR) in the Czech Republic travelled to Cadarache in France to learn from experts at the Commissariat for Atomic Energy and ...

Under the guidance of the  Nuclear Science Committee (NSC) , the Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety (WPNCS) focuses on technical and scientific issues related to criticality safety. Specific...

The Working Group on the Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) is responsible for activities related to potential accidental situations in nuclear power plants, including the following technic...

The Joint Symposium on “Decommissioning, Reconstruction, Rehabilitation, and Food Safety: Rebuilding Post-Accident Confidence” – organised by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Developmen...

The International Nuclear Emergency Exercise (INEX) series has supported the NEA membership since 1993 in improving the international aspects of nuclear or radiological accident emergency, preparedne...

The Preparatory Study on Analysis of Fuel Debris (PreADES) project was proposed as a near-term project by the Senior Expert Group on Safety Research Opportunities Post-Fukushima (SAREF).

PreADES was ...

The INEX-5 exercises series were developed in 2013-2014 and were conducted between September 2015 and June 2016. The preliminary analysis of the INEX-5 evaluation questionnaires, as well as details o...

The NEA Committee on Radiological Protection and Public Health (CRPPH), through various sub-groups, has focused on improving the effectiveness of international nuclear emergency preparedness and mana...

The mission of the CRPPH Working Party on Nuclear Emergency Matters (WPNEM) is to improve nuclear emergency management systems within member countries, and to share its knowledge and experience widel...

High-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs), also known as very-high-temperature reactors (VHTR) are Generation IV reactors that can operate at very high temperatures and use a graphite-moderated ga...

Statut des ratifications et adhésions à la Convention de Bruxelles complémentaire à la Convention de Paris

This report presents a study performed on a set of common-cause failure (CCF) events within the International Common-Cause Failure Data Exchange (ICDE) project. The topic of the study was intersystem...

FISPACT-II (currently at release version 5.0) is an enhanced multi-physics platform providing a wide variety of advanced simulation methods and employing the most up to date (TENDL-2019, ENDF/B-VIII....

NEA Director-General speaks at NE•RS 2022 conference, meets with Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade.

Reducing industrial carbon emissions is one of the most difficult challenges on the path to net zero by 2050 due to the magnitude of greenhouse gas emissions from the industrial sector and technical ...

Reducing industrial carbon emissions is one of the most difficult challenges on the path to net zero by 2050, due to the magnitude of greenhouse gas emissions from the industrial sector and technolog...

NEA member countries and dates of accession

The joint NEA-IAEA symposium hosted by the United Kingdom’s Office for Nuclear Regulation brought together experts to exchange on the use and application of Probabilistic Safety Analysis (PSA) for re...

The legislation country reports provide comprehensive information on the regulatory and institutional framework governing nuclear activities in OECD and NEA member countries.

CSNI and CNRA held their biannual meetings and a joint session at the NEA headquarters.

Latest status of ratifications or accessions of the Brussels Supplementary Convention (BSC). 

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

WPRS gathered 172 experts from 22 countries at the annual Benchmark Workshop.

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The experience mostly derived from Chernobyl and Fukushima post-accident situations has shown that the management of contaminated food after such nuclear disasters can lead to a number of public heal...

The NEA and Women in Nuclear (WiN) Globalco-organised a mentoring session for young professionals in Tokyo, Japan

StatLink files from Nuclear Energy Data 2021. Download all the Excel files from the volume in one click.

The Symposium is free of charge for all participants and is scheduled to take place in person at the ONR’s offices near Liverpool in the United Kingdom. 

Key Dates

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.

Nuclear Energy Data is the Nuclear Energy Agency’s annual compilation of statistics and country reports documenting nuclear power status in NEA member countries and in the OECD area. Information prov...

For the Third Global Nuclear Science and Engineering Commencement, the NEA is holding a student competition on the theme “Nuclear and society: What does this relationship mean to you?”

Nuclear legislation: Russian Federation

The Working Party on Nuclear Liability and Transport (WPNLT) agreed to prepare and publish specific country sheets presenting provisions related to nuclear transport and transit under the relevant na...

The WGPC held its biannual plenary meeting on 3-4 May 2022 to discuss its ongoing work and the progress made in activities on public trust and risk communication.

The annual Benchmark Workshop of the Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems was hosted by CEA Cadarache in Aix-en-Provence. During the week of 30 May to 3 June...

The NEA has made progress on two activities that seek to bolster member countries’ nuclear and radiological emergency preparedness and their ability to co-ordinate response actions.

The Thermochemical Database (TDB) Project develops a reference database of chemical thermodynamic values for elements and compounds relevant to the safety of radioactive waste repositories and vital ...

On 17-18 May, experts in radioactive waste management, local stakeholders and non-technical actors convened in Bern, Switzerland, for the IGSC and FSC workshop on the safety case.

The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) held an online event to launch its new report Building a Framework for Post Nuclear Accident Recovery Preparedness: National-Level Guidance.

This report was produced b...

The NEA Data Bank Nuclear Data Service (NDS) organised the Joint Evaluated Fission and Fusion (JEFF) Nuclear Data Week (NDW) on 25-29 April 2022.

More than ten years after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, many lessons have been learnt that have helped improve preparedness for nuclear emergencies and awareness of the global r...

DG Magwood met with the leaders of government, industry, education and others to discuss the country’s growing role in the sector.

The Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety (WPNCS) deals with technical and scientific issues relevant to criticality safety. Specific areas of interest include (but are not limited to) investig...

 Nuclear Data Sensitivity Tool (NDaST), aims to provide rapid feedback on the effect of changes to nuclear data on integral benchmarks.

PHYSOR attracts international experts from all segments of the nuclear industry and scientific community, including vendors, utilities, laboratories, and universities. The theme for this year’s confe...

The project led by JAEA/CLADS will be dedicated to advanced remote technology for decommissioning under intense gamma-ray radiation environments (e.g. robotics, virtual reality).

All credible models show that nuclear energy has an important role to play in global climate change mitigation efforts (e.g. IEA, 2021; BNEF, 2021; IIASA, 2021). Despite clear analyses from many sour...

The NEA Data Bank held an OpenMC training course, the first of its kind, on 25-28 April 2022.

The Nuclear Law Committee (NLC) is a highly focused group of specialists designated by the NEA member countries, comprising lawyers, policy makers, academics and from time to time, technical experts....

The NEA performs depositary functions on behalf of the OECD Secretary-General for diverse international agreements.

National legislation: China

Recent meetings of groups working under the aegis of the Framework for Irradiation Experiments (FIDES) have demonstrated that the international community is enthusiastic and on a strong course to ful...

The webinar served as a kick-off meeting for the NEST fellows and the organisations participating in the NEST Building competence, Expert knowledge, Applied techniques, Safe decommissioning, Train fe...

The Component Operational Experience, Degradation and Ageing Programme (CODAP) combines the follow-up of two previous NEA projects: the Pipe Failure Data Exchange Project (OPDE) and the stress corros...

This NEST project addresses the main issues of i‑graphite management, including characterisation, decontamination and disposal.

Requester

Kenneth KOZIER at CNLCR, CAN

Project (context)

Critical experiments with high enriched uranyl fluoride in heavy water

Impact

Different representations of the energy-angle neutron elastic sc...

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Requester

Dr Gilles NOGUERE at CAD-DER, FR

Impact

The use of new high-accuracy transmission data in the evaluation procedure will affect the partial cross sections and their uncertainties, whose im...

Requester

Dr Allan D. CARLSON at NIST, USA

Project (context)

NIST, Neutron Cross-Section Standards (www-nds.iaea.org/standards), CSEWG, WPEC

Impact

This neutron cross section standard is perhaps the ...

Requester

Prof. Gerald RIMPAULT at CAD-DER, FR

Project (context)

JEFF, NEA WPEC Subgroup 27

Impact

The four fast reactor systems of GenIV feature innovative core characteristics for which gamma-ray h...

Joint NEA and IAEA event will explore probabilistic safety assessment for reactors of singular designs

Statement of the Steering Committee for Nuclear Energy on the safety and security of operation of Ukraine’s nuclear installations

The Sixth International Conference on Geological Repositories (ICGR-6) gathered participants in in Helsinki, Finland, on 4-8 April.

Photo: Krystal Kenney

Photo: Krystal Kenney

Photo: Krystal Kenney

Photo: Krystal Kenney

Photo: Krystal Kenney

The NEA’s ruling body the Steering Committee for Nuclear Energy met for its143rd biannual meeting in April 2022.

The International Nuclear Law Essentials (INLE) is a one-week programme run by the NEA covering practical issues in international nuclear law.

The Fundamentals of International Nuclear Law (FINL) is an online programme run by the NEA that provies a high-level, introductory review of the central aspects of international nuclear law.  

Improves the existing regime by requiring that significantly more compensation be made available to supplement that which is to be provided for under the Paris Convention.

Improves the existing regime by requiring that more money be made available to compensate more victims for a broader range of damages.

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...

Nuclear legislation: Canada

National legislation: Denmark

Nuclear legislation: Argentina

The Nuclear Law Bulletin (NLB) welcomes submissions from professionals and academics involved in or interested in the field of nuclear law.

Full text of the Joint Protocol Relating to the Application of the Vienna Convention and the Paris Convention.

Analytical studies on nuclear legislation in OECD member countries and in Central and Eastern Europe and the NIS issued between 1995 and 2003.

Nuclear legislation: France

Nuclear legislation: Germany

Nuclear legislation: Italy

National legislation: Greece

Nuclear legislation: Spain

Nuclear legislation: Sweden

Nuclear legislation: Switzerland

The International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) released the first version of the Database for the International Handbook of Evaluated Criticality Safety Benchmark Experime...

National legislation: New Zealand

Nuclear legislation: Norway

Nuclear legislation: Poland

National legislation: Portugal

National legislation: Romania

Nuclear legislation: Slovenia

Nuclear legislation: Hungary

Nuclear legislation: Iceland

Nuclear legislation: Ireland

National legislation: Japan

Nuclear legislation: Korea

Nuclear legislation: Luxembourg

Nuclear legislation: Mexico

Nuclear legislation: Netherlands

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OpenMC is a community-developed Monte Carlo neutron and photon transport simulation code. It is capable of performing fixed source, k-eigenvalue, and subcritical multiplication calculations on models...

A chat with Ethan Robert Kirkby, NEST Fellow

The NEA Division of Nuclear Law (DNL) works on a suite of publications, workshops and symposia to advance cooperation and understanding of nuclear liability.

To meet the overall safety objectives and to achieve a balanced plant design, natural hazards have to be considered in the design of nuclear installations. Deriving the strength of such events from a...

Collected sources of primary documentation for reactor physics benchmarks.

放射性廃棄物は、医療・産業・研究・発電など幅広い活動から発生する。このような廃棄物はすべて、人の健康と環境の保護を最優先して安全に管理しなくてはならない。何十年にも及ぶ研究活動を経て、国際科学界は今では、高レベル放射性廃棄物を深地層最終処分場（DGR）に定置することが安全かつ効果的であると確信するに至っている。
各国政府は、それぞれが最良であると信じるエネルギー・環境政策を実施する絶対的な権利と責...

The investigation conducted in the last 15 years on different aspects of Source Term worldwide, and particularly in the context of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in the form of projects and the Work...

Nuclear legislation: Austria

Nuclear legislation: Belgium

One of the key areas in fuel safety is the analysis of fuel behaviour under reactivity-initiated accident conditions. Reactivity-initiated accident fuel rod codes have been developed for a significan...