The NEA hosted a roundtable discussion on 1 October 2020 to celebrate what would have been the 20^th anniversary of the International School of Nuclear Law (ISNL).

The Contracting Parties to the Paris Convention met remotely on 16 October 2020 to discuss the final steps towards the ratification of the Protocols.

The Fourth International Workshop on the Indemnification of Damage in the Event of a Nuclear Accident, 8‑10 October 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal.

NEA Working Party on the Legal Aspects of Nuclear Safety (WPLANS) meeting, 19-20 May 2021

The Contracting Parties to the Paris and Brussels Supplementary Conventions have decided to organise a ceremony for the deposit of the instruments of ratification in December 2021, with the Protocols...

The NEA recently concluded the 2021 edition of the International School of Nuclear Law (ISNL), which was from 23 August to 3 September 2021. 

The RepMet initiative aimed to improve understanding of the identification, administration and application of metadata to support national programmes in managing radioactive waste repository data, in...

The Preservation of Records, Knowledge and Memory (RK&M) Across Generations initiative was launched by the Nuclear Energy Agency in 2011 to foster international reflection and progress towards this g...

La mise en oeuvre du Protocole de Kyoto et l'application de ses mécanismes de flexibilité sont au premier plan des débats de politique énergétique dans la plupart des pays de l'OCDE. Le rôle que l'én...

This report reviews how some of the innovative nuclear-fission technologies being developed today attempt to address the challenges facing nuclear energy. It suggests some areas for collaborative res...

Techniquement, les réacteurs nucléaires de fission, qu’ils soient en service ou en cours de construction, peuvent fournir des produits autres que l’électricité. Cependant, alors que les applications ...

Technically, nuclear fission reactors in operation or being built can supply non-electricity products. However, while non-electrical applications have been considered since the very beginning of nucl...

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

Seismic probabilistic safety assessment (SPSA) is a systematic method for examining and evaluating the risk from earthquake-initiated accidents. The significant advances in the area of SPSA since the...

The NEA Working Group on the Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) held its annual meeting virtually on 13-15 September 2021 to discuss its ongoing work and activities related to potential acc...

Insights from the NEST Framework: A chat with Larissa Shasko, PhD student and NEST Fellow.

Building on the discussions held in March and June 2021, the INEX-6 Preparatory Task Force met on 13 September 2021.

The diversity in classification schemes across countries has restricted the possibility of comparing waste inventories and led to difficulties in interpreting waste management practices, both nationa...

Radioactive waste inventory data are an important element in the development of a national radioactive waste management programme since these data affect the design and selection of the ultimate disp...

Radioactive waste inventory data are an important element in the development of a national radioactive waste management programme since these data affect the design and selection of the ultimate disp...