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 ...

The Joint Evaluated Fission and Fusion File (JEFF)  Nuclear Data Library Project is a collaboration between NEA Data Bank participating countries. The JEFF library combines the efforts of its differ...

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...

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

The application period for the 2022 session is closed.

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

In 2021, the NEA and IFNEC organised a series of joint webinars on a number of conceptual and practical issues pertaining to nuclear new build financing. These events aimed to advance ongoing policy ...

^{Figure 1: Generation IV International Forum [gen-4.org]}

The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) organised an international workshop on the implementation of radioactive w...

- Registration for the 2022 course is closed -

This training course focused on communicating risk on a daily basis. Its aim was to improve the effectiveness of risk communication in order to enhance ...

Image source: KKG

As one of the NEA member countries with the lowest carbon emissions, Switzerland is well positioned to achieve its objective of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. The main features ...

The 12th International Conference on Nuclear Criticality Safety (ICNC) will be held in Sendai, Japan on 1-6 October 2023. Twenty years after the last conference in Japan, which was held in Tokai-mura...

Attaining net zero carbon emissions by 2050 will require financing and developing significant capacity of new nuclear power generation in the coming years and decades. To facilitate this process, the...

Since its inception, the NEA has provided a highly flexible and powerful platform for multinational research co-operation, particularly in areas related to providing understanding and insights needed...

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, an...

Dates: 3-7 April, 2023
Place: OECD Headquarters in Paris, France
Minimum enrollment required: 12 participants
Course fee: 1000 EUR

This 4.5-day interactive course is intended to give students a thorough...

Uranium is the primary source of fuel for nuclear power plants, which provides large-scale low-carbon baseload electricity for more than 30 countries around the world and is the world’s second larges...

Applications are closed 

Programme

The 2023 International Nuclear Law Essentials (INLE) programme will be conducted under the leadership of Paul Bowden, Honorary Professor of Law at the Nottingham La...

Phase I - “How to better formulate problems for holistic, inclusive and sustainable decision making?”

Phase II - “How to balance competing aspects and interests (as defined by the prevailing circumstances) in decision making to reach holistic, inclusive and sustainable decisions?”

Phase III - “How to transparently implement and post-assess decisions for their holism, inclusiveness and sustainability?”

The International Conference A Decade of Progress After Fukushima-Daiichi: Building on Lessons
Learned to Further Strengthen Nuclear Safety focused on:

1. Looking back on the lessons learned, experienc...

Nuclear innovation in small modular reactors (SMRs) has the potential to address multiple energy policy priorities around the world, from decarbonising electricity and deep decarbonisation of hard-to...

The continued evolution of fuel and materials technology, fuel performance, optimisation of operational limits, material ageing, failure limits, etc. requires experimental evidence obtained from test...

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 application period for the 2023 session is now closed.

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...

Applications for the fifth session of the International Radiological Protection School (IRPS) are now closed.

The 2023 edition of the IRPS is scheduled to take place in person in Stockholm, Sweden fr...

The seventh edition of the annual NEA Thermochemical Database (TDB) Project course on the topic of thermodynamic data collection and assessment will take place as a one-day, in-person event on 23 Sep...

The NEA has organised the first International School on Simulation of Nuclear Reactor Systems (SINUS) on the topic of Reactor single- and multi-physics simulations based on Light Water Reactor (LWR) ...

^{Picture: ANSTO}

This event has now finished. Speaker presentations are available for download using the links in the 'Download' section.

NEA article reporting on this workshop:

Examining new technolog...

In response to the technical and scientific needs emerged recently in this area, the Working Group of External Events (WGEV) and the Working Group on Risk Assessment (WGRISK) initiated a joint task e...

Over the past two decades, the safety case has become a powerful and essential tool to support decision making at every stage of a geological disposal programme. Now, an increasing number of national...

The NEA thermal hydraulic code validation benchmark for high temperature gas-cooled reactors using HTTF data (HTGR T/H), supervised by the Expert Group on Reactor Core Thermal-Hydraulics and Mechanic...

Deadline for submission of abstracts       30 June 2023    

Notification of accepted contributions      17 July 2023

Deadline for attendance registration          27 Oct 2023      

Deadline for presentation submissions 27 Oct 2...