The INEX-4 exercise was designed to allow participants to investigate the national and, in some cases, international arrangements for responding to widespread radiological contamination of the urban ...
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26 May 2020
Despite the significant advances made in early phase emergency management as a result of INEX series, longer-term consequence management has remained a difficult challenge for emergency managers. In ...
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26 May 2020
The INEX-2 exercise was planned as a series of regional, command-post exercises with the simultaneous real-time participation of many countries – including those from Eastern Europe and Asia – and in...
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26 May 2020
The first INEX exercise was held in 1993 to address the international community need to improve the quality and the co-ordination of emergency response systems on a regional scale, in particular in t...
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25 May 2020
In order to test the evolved communication and information technologies, the NEA organised the INEX 2000 exercise hosted in France at the Gravelines nuclear power plant, 22-23 May 2001. This internat...
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26 May 2020
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
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
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
Organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Climate and Environment of Poland, the conference gathered stakeholders in Warsaw on 8 December.
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12 December 2022
Focused on recent progress and challenges for nuclear financing, the virtual event concluded a series of six webinars dedicated to nuclear financing organised this year.
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6 December 2021
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
Nuclear Law Education Resources
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6 June 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
WPFM held meetings on 23-25 May 2023.
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13 June 2023
The first International School on Simulation of Nuclear Reactor Systems (SINUS) took place on 22-23 May 2023.
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14 June 2023
CNRA met to discuss its new structure and future activities.
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14 June 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
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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12 August 2022
10-year FIDES-II strategic plan will define key research needs in a variety of technical disciplines.
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19 June 2023
The NEA gathered nuclear law experts for meetings in June 2023.
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26 June 2023
The annual WPRS Benchmarks Workshops took place on 22-26 May 2023 in Bologna, Italy.
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13 June 2023
Innovations in nuclear safety thermal-hydraulics
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26 June 2023
Supporting the use of computational fluid dynamics for nuclear reactor safety
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27 June 2023
Data Bank Newsletter Archive
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29 June 2023
NEA delegation led by Director-General Magwood was in Romania for a series of meetings and to co-host a workshop.
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29 June 2023
Submitting a computer program to the NEA Data Bank
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21 April 2020
CPS access for Canada and the United States
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20 April 2020
Commonly requested NEA Data Bank Codes
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30 June 2020
The Data Bank NDS hosts an archive of past evaluated library releases, for consultation and download. Please note many of the libraries available here have been superseeded, some are no longer mainta...
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20 July 2020
The Data Bank is responsible, through its Nuclear Data Service, for the compilation into the EXFOR database, of experimental nuclear reaction data coming from Data Bank member countries, as a foundin...
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3 June 2020
The Nuclear Data Service of the Data Bank supports the development, compilation, testing, verification, benchmarking and dissemination of experimental and evaluated nuclear data, and develops in-hous...
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3 June 2020
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
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
The Nuclear Data Service of the Data Bank supports the development, compilation, testing, verification and dissemination of experimental and evaluated nuclear data, and develops in-house analysis and...
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28 May 2020
The Joint Evaluated Fission and Fusion (JEFF) Nuclear Data Library is a collaboration between NEA Data Bank member countries. The JEFF library combines the efforts of its different Working Groups to ...
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28 May 2020
NEA DB Services to non-NEA DB countries
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1 June 2023
A wealth of technical information exists on nuclear fuel cycle options – combinations of nuclear fuel types, reactor types, used or spent nuclear fuel (SNF) treatments, and disposal schemes – and mos...
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22 February 2021
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...
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5 July 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...
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12 May 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
Nuclear decommissioning activities can greatly benefit from research and development (R&D) projects. This report examines applicable emergent technologies, current research efforts and innovation nee...
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21 July 2014
Experience from decommissioning projects suggests that the decommissioning of nuclear power plants could be made easier if it received greater consideration at the design stage and during the operati...
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21 April 2010
This status report on Selecting Strategies for the Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities is based on the viewpoints and materials presented at a seminar held in Tarragona, Spain on 1-4 September 2003...
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2 October 2006
Releasing the site of a nuclear installation from radiological control is usually one of the last steps of decommissioning. To date, site release has been practised in a limited number of cases only ...
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27 September 2006
Low-level and very low-level waste represent the vast majority of radioactive waste by volume from decommissioning activity at nuclear facilities around the world, but they are only a small fraction...
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4 November 2020
The transition from an operating nuclear facility to the decommissioning phase is critical in the life cycle of every facility. A number of organisational and technical modifications are needed in or...
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25 May 2018
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...
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10 June 2022
Cost estimation for the decommissioning of nuclear facilities can vary considerably in format, content and practice both within and across countries. These differences may have legitimate reasons but...
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2 March 2012
The nuclear sector has in recent years been placing increasing attention on the need to better understand variations between cost estimates for the decommissioning of nuclear power plants, as well as...
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27 May 2019
