To celebrate the achievements of the Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework since its inception in 2019, the NEA will hold a virtual NEST Fellows Award Competition on 28 November 2...

A collective statement of the NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee from 2014 states that maintaining records, knowledge and memory (RK&M) for a radioactive waste repository after its closure wi...

Date: 14-17 November 2023

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

Encouraging greater cohesion of social sciences and STEM to push the nuclear sector forward

The NEA Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science Technology and Policy (the NEA Global Forum) held a coun...

The International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation (IFNEC) hosted its first Ministerial Conference since the COVID-19 pandemic on 1-3 November 2023. Organised in co-operation with the Ghana A...

Current status and future actions to ensure the reliable supply for molybdenum-99 (⁹⁹Mo), and a conversation on a new generation of innovative radioisotopes for diagnostics and therapy

The NEA hosted...

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...

This event is part of the OECD COP26 Virtual Pavilion. It is available on replay.

Recent performance breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have led to unprecedented interest in AI/ML among nuclear engineers. However, the lack of dedicated benchmar...

While the ongoing war in Ukraine has not thus far resulted in any major radiological threats to public health and safety, it is the first time in history that a country with significant nuclear and r...

The NEA 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) Unce...

Optimisation has always been a fundamental concept in decision making for all parts of society, but the way decisions are taken has changed in recent years. Societal considerations towards nuclear-re...

The NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) created the Ad-hoc Group on the Extended Storage and Transportation (AhGEST) in 2021. Following the work on these two topics, AhGEST presented it...

Photo credit: Joel A. Kulesza, Roger Lee Martz, LANL LA-UR-17-23854

The NEA International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) and International Reactor Physics Experiments Evaluation Project (IRPhEP) Technical Review Groups, and the Shielding Int...

The NEA will host an international workshop on the economics of small modular reactors (SMRs) at Fairmont Château Laurier in Ottawa, Canada, on Tuesday, 27 February 2024. This international workshop ...

The 2023 edition of the IRPS took place in person in Stockholm, Sweden from 14-18 August 2023, in co-operation with the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) and the Centre for Radiation Protectio...

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...

7 October 2021, 14:00-16:30 CEST

Reducing industrial carbon emissions is one of the most difficult challenges on the path to net zero by 2050, due to the magnitude of greenhouse gas emissions from th...

The NEA is organising the 16^th Information Exchange Meeting on Actinide and Fission Product Partitioning and Transmutation (16IEMPT) on 24-27 October 2023. The meeting will be held at the NEA offices...

Dates:  27-31 May 2024
Time: 17:00-21:00 (CEST, Paris time)/10:00-14:00 (CDT USA/Mexico)/12:00-16:00 (UTC-3, Argentina)
Minimum enrollment: 12 participants
Maximum enrollment: 15 participants
Registration...

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...

The International workshop on disruptive technologies for nuclear safety applications is one of the most significant digital innovation events of the year. This two-day workshop was held on 16-17 May...

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...

The 2024 edition of the IRPS will be held in person at Stockholm University, Sweden, from 12-16 August 2024, in co-operation with the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) and the Centre for Radia...

Following the first edition of the Nuclear Risk Communication Training Course, the NEA hosted the 2023 session in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. This training course focused on communicating risk o...

4-8 March 2024 

The application period is now closed.

Programme

The 2024 International Nuclear Law Essentials (INLE) programme was conducted under the leadership of Paul Bowden, Honorary Professor of...

Suppliers play a critical role in the construction and operation of nuclear power plants. With a declining number of nuclear grade suppliers and a loss of skills in some regions, supply chain oversig...

The opening session of the Seventh International Conference on Geological Repositories (ICGR-7) in Busan, Korea. Photo: Krystal Kenney

There is consensus within the international scientific communi...

The annual Benchmark Workshops of the Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS) was co-located with the BEPU 2024 conference and hosted by N.IN.E. (Nuclear...

The NEA organised the second 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) Unc...

Image: Microscopic examination of U-bearing particles collected at Fukushima-Daiichi, JAEA

Date: 8-12 July 2024
Place: Universitat de Barcelona
Facultat de Fisica
Diagonal 645
08028 Barcelona - SPAIN
Minimum enrolment: 6 participants
Maximum enrolment: 15 participants
Course fee: 1500 EUR
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This Joint workshop on initiatives of low-dose research co-ordination was co-organised by EPRI and its IDEA network, and by the NEA High-Level Group on Low-Dose Research (HLG-LDR). It continued colla...