European countries of the OECD have been affected by the widespread dissemination of the radioactive material released from the Chernobyl reactor accident in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, ...
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11 September 1987
The Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) is jointly sponsored by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Since 1992, ISOE has provided a forum...
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18 March 2021
The Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the ISOE Programme presents the status of the ISOE programme for the year of 2015.
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27 May 2020
Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the ISOE Programme, 2017
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27 May 2020
This 26th Annual Report of the International System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) Programme presents the status of the Programme in 2016. As of 31 December 2016, the ISOE programme included 74 part...
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7 May 2019
The decisions made about protective actions of people and the environment in situations involving exposure to ionising radiation have tended to be driven by subjective judgements about the health ris...
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26 February 2021
Much has been learnt in the ten years since the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and the subsequent accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, but significant challenges still remain.
This ...
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3 March 2021
In response to the growing interest in the field of decommissioning of nuclear facilities, the Nuclear Energy Agency of the OECD commenced in 1978 a programme of activities in this field. This report...
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Virtually all national and international radiation protection regulations and standards are based on the recommendations published by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP). N...
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17 March 2003
Developed and reviewed by experts of the EC, IAEA and NEA, input for this report includes information and experience concerning decommissioning cost items and cost-item definitions. The resulting lis...
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28 February 1999
Ionization Chamber Smoke Detectors (ICSDs) containing radioactive sources appear at present to be an important application of ionizing radiation. In the past their use has been directed mainly toward...
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13 October 1977
The Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) has become a unique, worldwide programme on the protection of workers at nuclear power plants. It includes a vast network for exchanging experie...
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26 October 2005
The development of new radiological protection recommendations by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) continues to be a strategically important undertaking, both nationally...
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9 February 2004
One of the main challenges facing radiological protection experts is how to integrate radiological protection within modern concepts of and approaches to risk governance. It is within this context th...
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26 October 2005
The Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE), a joint initiative of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has become a unique worldwide pro...
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16 July 2003
The societal aspects of risk governance are increasingly becoming a part of public decision-making processes. This tendency is particularly evident in matters dealing with the protection of human hea...
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1 February 2002
The Fifth International Nuclear Emergency Exercise (INEX-5) was developed in response to NEA member countries' desire to test and demonstrate the value of changes put in place following the Fukushima...
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2 October 2018
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7 January 2003
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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29 June 2004
Many countries are dealing with challenges stemming from nuclear and radiological legacy sites. In particular, managing these sites in an open and transparent fashion while taking into account the vi...
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29 September 2020
The brochure provides background information about the NEA.
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10 September 2018
The NEA Annual Report 2019 provides an overview of the status of nuclear power in NEA member countries and illustrative descriptions of the Agency's activities and international joint projects. 2019 ...
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12 June 2020
Since the discovery of radiation at the end of the 19th century, the health effects of exposure to radiation have been studied more than almost any other factor with potential effects on human health...
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3 March 2016
Decisions regarding radiological protection are informed by science, including its uncertainties, influenced by stakeholder concerns, driven by prevailing circumstances, and broadly based on values a...
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17 February 2011
Global demand for electricity continues to grow and numerous new nuclear power plants (NPPs) are being planned or constructed in NEA member countries. Most of these new NPPs will be of the third gene...
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5 October 2010
Since 2002, the NEA has been actively facilitating the detailed discussion of the evolving system of radiological protection in an Asian context. Its work in this area has included four previous conf...
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24 September 2010
The collective experience of the NEA Working Party on Nuclear Emergency Matters (WPNEM), and in particular, the experience from the International Nuclear Emergency Exercise (INEX) series, has shown t...
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5 October 2010
Since its inception the NEA Committee on Radiation Protection and Public Health (CRPPH) has been involved in the assessment and implementation of the recommendations of the International Commission o...
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13 March 2008
Emergency situations demand that actions be taken by the responsible organisations at the local, national and international levels to mitigate their impact on people and the environment. In order to ...
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31 December 2008
Les pouvoirs publics et les autorités réglementaires sont chargés de définir les contrôles ou conditions réglementaires à imposer, le cas échéant, aux sources et situations d'exposition aux rayonneme...
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14 February 2006
Governments and regulatory authorities are responsible for the definition of regulatory controls or conditions, if any, that should be applied to radioactive sources or radiation exposure situations ...
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14 February 2006
Operational approaches to the optimisation of radiological protection continue to evolve at nuclear power plants. The continual improvement of protection has been greatly facilitated by the exchange ...
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23 March 2005
A la fin des années 1990, la Commission internationale de protection radiologique (CIPR) s'est engagée dans l'élaboration de nouvelles recommandations, destinées à servir de lignes directrices pour l...
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26 March 2004
Within the radiological protection community, stakeholder issues have moved steadily to the forefront of policy discussions, and clearly form a key element in decisions regarding the development and ...
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28 May 2004
This summary seeks to answer the questions that radiological protection professionals ask when confronted with the need to consider stakeholder participation processes. As will become clear, there is...
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30 July 2004
At the end of the 1990s, the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) launched a process for establishing new recommendations, which are expected to serve as guidelines for national...
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1 March 2004
The evolution of the system of radiological protection is of great interest to governments and regulatory authorities, in particular in Asia. In this context, the Japanese government hosted a series ...
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12 August 2009
En général, les rejets d'effluents radioactifs des installations nucléaires ont fortement diminué ces dernières années, pour atteindre aujourd'hui des niveaux bien inférieurs aux exigences réglementa...
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29 October 2003
Approaches to radiological protection have been evolving, particularly over the past several years. This has been driven by the emergence of modern concepts of and approaches to risk governance, and ...
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26 May 2003
The Committee on Radiation Protection and Public Health (CRPPH) of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has, since its inception, worked to develop and improve international norms in the area of radi...
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10 June 2003
Radioactive effluent releases from nuclear installations have generally been substantially reduced in recent years, well below regulatory requirements. At the same time, international and intergovern...
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29 October 2003
Les plans d'urgence, les exercices et la gestion de crise sont des composantes vitales de tout programme électronucléaire. En situation d'urgence nucléaire, avec libération de substances radioactives...
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15 September 2003
Nuclear emergency planning, preparedness and management are essential elements of any country's nuclear power programme. The timely and appropriate implementation of short-term countermeasures can, i...
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15 September 2003
Les milieux de la radioprotection à l'échelle internationale ont dressé un important bilan de la situation aux alentours du réacteur endommagé de Tchernobyl à l'occasion du dixième anniversaire de l'...
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31 December 2003
The international radiological protection community performed a major status review of the situation around the damaged Chernobyl reactor on the 10-year anniversary of the accident. Since then, studi...
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31 December 2003
The Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) was created in 1992 to provide a forum for radiation protection experts from both utilities and national regulatory authorities to discuss, prom...
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1 March 2002