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.

The CRPPH assists NEA member countries in the implementation and enhancement of the system of radiological protection. It contributes to the adoption and the maintenance of high standards of protecti...

A healthy safety culture has long been considered essential to maintaining high levels of nuclear safety. Although safety goals across countries are similar, the operational realities vary due to a r...

健全な安全文化は、原子力安全を高いレベルで維持するために必須なことであると考えられてきた。各国が目指すことは類似しているが、国の文化的特性を含む様々な要因により、実際の取り組み状況は異なる。このような特性は、安全文化に良い影響を与えることもあれば課題となることもある。したがって、原子力界においては、それぞれの文化的背景の中でどのような影響が存在するかを特定し、これらの影響が安全文化にどのような効...

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...

The sixth edition gathered around 60 participants to Stockholm, Sweden.

The workshop gathered 43 secondary school students from Fukushima and 4 high school students from Illinois, United States.

NEA and French Ministry for Energy Transition hosted Roadmaps to New Nuclear conference. 

The NEA Joint Project on Waste Integration for Small and Advanced Reactor Designs (WISARD) will start in 2025.

Human aspects of nuclear energy and waste management were in focus during a recent mission to the US at the Waste Management Symposia in Arizona and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission's 36th Annual...

Ahead of the project launch, the NEA organised a meeting to discuss the progress.

A new collaboration with the EPRI and the NEA will focus on waste management strategies for small modular reactors.

Co-Chair: Emanuela Colombo (left), Politecnico di Milano and Edward Obbard (right), The University of New South Wales Sydney (UNSW)

The NEA delegation travelled to Bulgaria to take part in “Sustainable Nuclear Innovations.”

Meetings were held with Kenyan government representatives and stakeholders in the nuclear field.

NEA support for countries interested in calculating their system costs and optimising their electricity system

A WPNCS subgroup on data assimilation techniques for uncertainty assessments

The OECD NEA and the Ministry for Climate and Enterprise of Sweden will co-host Roadmaps to New Nuclear 2024. 

The report builds on the Country-Specific Safety Culture Forum organised in Tokyo in December 2023.

Improving gender balance in nuclear

NEA work on improving gender balance in the nuclear energy sector

Delegates to the NEA Task Group on Improving the Gender Balance in the Nuclear Sector met on 14 February 2022

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.

NEA Steering Committee for Nuclear Energy biannual meeting took place on 20-21 October 2022.

The GB-TG discussed the latest data, actions and objectives as part of their mission to improve gender balance in the nuclear energy sector. 

NEA organises a mentoring workshop in the United Kingdom on International Women's Day.

Gender balance policy framework approved

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

The NEA is working with its member countries to promote gender balance and the development of female leaders in the nuclear energy sector so as to ensure a robust, diverse and sustainable nuclear wor...

The NEA efforts were highlighted at the OECD Forum on Gender Equality and the International Conference on Nuclear Security.

On the occasion of International Women's Day Friday 8 March, the NEA asked women what they most enjoy about working in the nuclear sector. 

The task group met virtually for the fourth high-level NEA meeting on improving gender balance.

Public surveys on women’s experiences in the nuclear energy sector and the use of the AOP framework in radiation research and regulation.

In follow-up to the first formal meeting of the group held on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science in February, the NEA convened a second meeting on 25 March 2021 to discuss and explor...

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...

The NEA convened a high-level meeting on 20 April 2021 to discuss survey instruments for data collection on women’s presence in the nuclear energy sector.

The Steering Committee for Nuclear Energy convened on 20-21 April in Paris.

38 OECD countries formally adopt the Recommendation of the Council on Improving the Gender Balance in the Nuclear Sector.

Exploratory Meeting on Improving the Gender Balance in Nuclear Energy, 10-11 December 2019

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.

Scaling up investment flows in nuclear energy is one of the major challenges for OECD and NEA countries that have decided or are considering the construction of nuclear power plants. This report offe...

This publication on small modular reactors (SMRs) for mining is the first of a series of NEA case studies that assess the opportunities and challenges for SMRs to support decarbonisation of hard-to-a...