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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5 June 2023
The NEA co-organised the International Workshop on Disruptive Technologies for Nuclear Safety Applications on 16-17 May 2023 in Jeju, Korea.
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4 June 2023
The NEA held its first Indigenous International Mentoring Workshop for female students in Ontario on 7-10 May 2023.
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3 June 2023
The Nuclear Law Committee (NLC) established the Working Party on Nuclear Liability and Transport (WPNLT) in 2016 to address the practical challenges related to the nuclear liability regime(s) applica...
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2 June 2023
NEA DB Services to non-NEA DB countries
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1 June 2023
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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1 June 2023
Under the guidance of the Nuclear Science Committee (NSC), the Working Party on Materials Science Issues in Nuclear Fuels and Structural Materials (WPFM) addresses materials science aspects of nuclea...
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1 June 2023
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...
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1 June 2023
The publication of the latest EGIR report marks the completion of phase one of the group's programme of work.
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30 May 2023
INEX-6 will be the largest exercise in over 20 years.
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30 May 2023
The Global Forum Secretariat works with the Global Forum to provide support to the Council of Advisors to make products available to the Agency’s bodies and projects as appropriate. The Secretariat a...
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30 May 2023
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...
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30 May 2023
Members of the WGHOF gathered in Vantaa, Finland, for its 33rd meeting.
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25 May 2023
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
Presentation of NEST Fellows
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25 May 2023
The working groups are comprised of experts from primarily academic institutions and other relevant stakeholders from NEA member and non-member countries.
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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
All Global Forum meetings, events and conferences are listed on this page.
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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.
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24 May 2023
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 ...
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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
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...
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24 May 2023
The Subgroup on Uncertainty Analysis in Modelling (UAM) for Design, Operation and Safety Analysis of Sodium-cooled Fast Reactors (SFR-UAM) was formed to check the use of best-estimate codes and data....
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24 May 2023
At the heart of the NEST Framework are multinational and multidisciplinary projects, so-called NEST projects.
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24 May 2023
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 main decision body of the NEST Framework is the Management Board which includes one member and one alternate from each NEST Country.
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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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24 May 2023
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
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
National legislation: Republic of Türkiye
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22 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 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
