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13 March 2023
NEA/RWM/R(2022)2
Following a safety-oriented, stepwise procedure for geological repository siting, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan (NUMO) requested in 2021 that the NEA facilitate an independent in...
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19 January 2023
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7 September 2023
OECD Conference Centre, 2 rue André Pascal, 75016 Paris, France
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...
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31 May 2023
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20 March 2026
Jeju Island, Korea (dates to be confirmed)
The purpose of this joint conference is to ensure attendees leave with renewed interest in their field of expertise by exposing them to the new tools for developers, code users, theoreticians, and ex...
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31 May 2023
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Austria, Vienna
Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) technologies are attracting great interest in the public and private sectors for a broad spectrum of applications worldwide. Most efforts at the international level are devo...
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31 May 2023
NEA’s Working Party on the Technical, Environmental, and Safety Aspects of Decommissioning and Legacy Management gathered for a workshop on 29 November to 1 December 2022 in Paris.
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13 December 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)16
In the current project, a new systematic approach has been developed, called SAPIUM (systematic approach for input uncertainty quantification methodology) for transparent and rigorous model IUQ. This...
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30 May 2023
The publication of the latest EGIR report marks the completion of phase one of the group's programme of work.
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30 May 2023
In order to test the evolved communication and information technologies, the NEA organised the INEX 2000 exercise hosted in France at the Gravelines nuclear power plant, 22-23 May 2001. This internat...
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26 May 2020
The first INEX exercise was held in 1993 to address the international community need to improve the quality and the co-ordination of emergency response systems on a regional scale, in particular in t...
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25 May 2020
The INEX-2 exercise was planned as a series of regional, command-post exercises with the simultaneous real-time participation of many countries – including those from Eastern Europe and Asia – and in...
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26 May 2020
Despite the significant advances made in early phase emergency management as a result of INEX series, longer-term consequence management has remained a difficult challenge for emergency managers. In ...
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26 May 2020
The INEX-4 exercise was designed to allow participants to investigate the national and, in some cases, international arrangements for responding to widespread radiological contamination of the urban ...
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26 May 2020
The INEX-5 exercises series were developed in 2013-2014 and were conducted between September 2015 and June 2016. The preliminary analysis of the INEX-5 evaluation questionnaires, as well as details o...
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22 June 2022
The NEA Committee on Radiological Protection and Public Health (CRPPH), through various sub-groups, has focused on improving the effectiveness of international nuclear emergency preparedness and mana...
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22 June 2022
INEX-6 will be the largest exercise in over 20 years.
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30 May 2023
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15 June 2023
JW Marriott Bucharest Grand Hotel, Bucharest, Romania
Momentum in regards to disposal solutions for radioactive waste has rapidly picked up over the last five years. Several countries have entered the licensing phase of establishing a deep geological re...
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24 May 2023
The Global Forum Secretariat works with the Global Forum to provide support to the Council of Advisors to make products available to the Agency’s bodies and projects as appropriate. The Secretariat a...
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30 May 2023
The Working Party on Nuclear Liability and Transport (WPNLT) agreed to prepare and publish specific country sheets presenting provisions related to nuclear transport and transit under the relevant na...
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30 May 2023
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30 May 2023
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30 May 2023
Members of the WGHOF gathered in Vantaa, Finland, for its 33rd meeting.
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25 May 2023
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NEA Headquarters, 46 Alphonse Le Gallo, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
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21 April 2023
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25 May 2023
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25 May 2023
This Global Forum Working Group focuses on activities to increase the number of women in the nuclear field.
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25 May 2023
NEST Fellows can be Master’s students, PhDs, postdoctoral researchers, young professionals, etc. belonging to one of the NEST project’s participating organisations.
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24 May 2023
Presentation of NEST Fellows
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25 May 2023
The working groups are comprised of experts from primarily academic institutions and other relevant stakeholders from NEA member and non-member countries.
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25 May 2023
Co-Chair: Raul Barrachina (left), National Atomic Energy Commission and Kenichi Ishikawa (right), University of Tokyo
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25 May 2023
Co-Chair: Emanuela Colombo (left), Politecnico di Milano and Edward Obbard (right), The University of New South Wales Sydney (UNSW)
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25 May 2023
Co-Chair: Ian Farnan (left), University of Cambridge and Man-Sung Yim (right), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
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25 May 2023
All Global Forum meetings, events and conferences are listed on this page.
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24 May 2023
Sustained performance of nuclear technology depends on access to a talented and well-qualified workforce, thus it is important to ensure that adequate infrastructures exist for education and training...
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22 July 2020
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24 May 2023
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24 May 2023
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire.
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24 May 2023
The NEST Secretariat monitors the progress of the different NEST Projects, supports the Management Board in the Monitoring and Evaluation process and provides the interface between the NEST Projects ...
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24 May 2023
A list of NEST events, conferences, workshops and summer schools organised in the context of ongoing NEST projects.
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24 May 2023
The proposed NEST project BEAST addresses postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and young professionals, who intend to work in the field of Nuclear Decommissioning and Waste Management. The...
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24 May 2023
The Subgroup on Uncertainty Analysis in Modelling (UAM) for Design, Operation and Safety Analysis of Sodium-cooled Fast Reactors (SFR-UAM) was formed to check the use of best-estimate codes and data....
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24 May 2023
Conditions for Release, Rules and Restrictions Applying to the Uncertainty Analysis in Best-Estimate Modelling for Design, Operation and Safety Analysis of SFRs (UAM-SFR)
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24 May 2023
At the heart of the NEST Framework are multinational and multidisciplinary projects, so-called NEST projects.
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24 May 2023
The main decision body of the NEST Framework is the Management Board which includes one member and one alternate from each NEST Country.
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24 May 2023
The NEST Framework comprises several countries and organisations who wish to co-operate through international exchanges and activities to strengthen nuclear-related technology education and training ...
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24 May 2023
The NEA launched the Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework in partnership with its member countries to help address important gaps in nuclear skills capacity building, knowledge t...
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24 May 2023
The Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy acts as an inclusive network of experts in the nuclear energy sector, primarily from academia, focused on enabling the generation...
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24 May 2023
The Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy is led by a Council of Advisors comprised by representatives from about 20 academic institutions in NEA member countries.
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24 May 2023
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24 May 2023
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law.
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24 May 2023
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire. Ses lecteurs bénéficient d’informations exhaustiv...
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24 May 2023
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law. It provides readers with authoritative and comprehensive information o...
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30 March 2020
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24 May 2023
The Halden Reactor Project has been in operation since 1958 and is the oldest NEA joint project. It brings together an important international technical network in the area of nuclear safety ranging ...
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23 May 2023
The Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) Project provides a forum for radiological protection (RP) professionals from nuclear electricity utilities and national regulatory authorities w...
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6 April 2020
The Integration Group for the Safety Case (IGSC) provides advice to the Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) on major and emerging issues to facilitate the development of waste management st...
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17 March 2022
Radioactive waste management is the safe treatment, storage and disposal of liquid, solid and gas discharge from nuclear industry operations with the goal of protecting people and the environment.
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13 December 2019
The committee supports member countries in the development of safe and economically efficient management of all types of radioactive waste (including spent fuel) based on the latest scientific and te...
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27 January 2021
The International Co-operative Programme for the Exchange of Scientific and Technical Information Concerning Nuclear Installation Decommissioning Projects (CPD) is a joint undertaking of a limited nu...
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3 April 2020
Despite progress over the past decades, women remain under-represented in executive positions in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Female students tend to do very well in math and sci...
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15 June 2020
In today’s society, the population of men and women is essentially equal in terms of numbers. However, in the domain of science and technology, which is part of the same society, this is not the case...
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15 June 2020
The NEA mentoring workshops are in line with the initiatives being undertaken by countries around the world to ensure that expertise is maintained in highly technical areas such as nuclear safety, ra...
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23 October 2018
In capacity building and gender balance, a key goal is to attract and retain more women in the technology and science fields by promoting education and development in those areas.
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27 May 2020
National legislation: Republic of Türkiye
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22 May 2023
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31 May 2024
Busan, Korea
The opening session of the Sixth International Conference on Geological Repositories (ICGR-6) in Helsinki, Finland. Photo: Krystal Kenney
There is consensus within the international scientific commun...
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15 May 2023
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17 May 2023
The CTBT bans all nuclear explosions anywhere on Earth whether for military or peaceful purposes.
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17 May 2023
The Joint Convention is an incentive convention that aims to, inter alia, achieve and a high level of safety worldwide in spent fuel and radioactive waste management, through the enhancement of nat...
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17 May 2023
The Aarhus Convention obliges states and grants the public rights in three areas of the convention: access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environme...
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17 May 2023
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17 May 2023
The Nuclear Terrorism Convention's main objective relates to the criminalisation of a number of nuclear and radioactive material related offences, the establishment of jurisdiction over these offen...
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17 May 2023
The Terrorist Financing Convention's objective is to enhance international co-operation among states in devising and adopting effective measures for the prevention of the financing of terrorism, as...
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17 May 2023
The Terrorist Bombings Convention's objective is to enhance international co-operation among states in devising and adopting effective and practical measures for the prevention of acts of terrorism...
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17 May 2023
The Kiev Protocol requires states to evaluate the consequences of their official draft plans and programmes, and, to the extent appropriate, policies and legislation that are likely to have signifi...
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17 May 2023
The OSPAR Convention is the mechanism by which 15 governments and the EU co-operate to prevent and eliminate pollution and protect the maritime area against the adverse effects of human activities ...
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17 May 2023
The Espoo Convention sets out the obligations of parties to assess the environmental impact of certain activities at an early stage of planning and lays down general obligations of states to notify...
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17 May 2023
The Joint Protocol acts as a bridge between the Paris and Vienna Conventions, effectively extending the benefits provided by one convention to victims in countries that have joined the other conven...
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17 May 2023
The Brussels Supplementary Convention establishes a scheme to provide compensation supplementary to that required by the Paris Convention. The BSC is open only to contracting parties to the Paris C...
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17 May 2023
The Paris Convention establishes a nuclear liability and compensation regime to compensate victims of a nuclear accident. The PC is open to OECD member countries as of right and non-member countrie...
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17 May 2023
The Vienna Convention establishes a nuclear liability and compensation regime similar to that provided for under the Paris Convention. The Vienna Convention is open to any state.
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17 May 2023
The CSC provides for a global liability and compensation scheme that may supplement that called for under the Paris Convention, the Vienna Convention or Annex state legislation as defined by the CS...
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17 May 2023
The Early Notification Convention establishes a notification system for nuclear accidents that have the potential for an international transboundary release of radioactive material that could be of...
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17 May 2023
The 1997 Vienna Protocol improves the original regime by requiring that more money be made available to compensate more victims for a broad range of damages.
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17 May 2023
Aims to prohibit all nuclear weapon activities, including the development, testing, production, acquisition, possession, stockpiling, use, or threats to use nuclear weapons.
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17 May 2023
The Convention on Assistance sets up a framework for states parties to co-operate amongst themselves and with the International Atomic Energy Agency to facilitate prompt assistance in the event of ...
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17 May 2023
The CPPNM establishes measures related to the physical protection of nuclear material used for peaceful purposes during transport, criminalisation of offenses relating to nuclear material and inter...
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17 May 2023
The objective of the Amendment to the CPPNM is to achieve and maintain worldwide effective physical protection of nuclear material and of nuclear facilities used for peaceful purposes; to prevent a...
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17 May 2023
The NEA participated in the European Nuclear Young Generation Forum in Krakow, Poland, an international platform for collaboration between the nuclear sector and the next generation.
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17 May 2023
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26 May 2023
Zanhotel Europa, Via Cesare Boldini 11, Bologna, Italy + virtual option on ZOOM
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17 May 2023
Image: QUENCH facility at KIT. Court. KIT.
The purpose of the QUENCH-ATF project is to investigate the chemical, mechanical and thermal-hydraulics behaviour of ATF claddings in Design Basis Accident...
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17 May 2023
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NEA, Paris (France)
Place: OECD/NEA Headquarters in Paris, France
Minimum enrollment required: 12 participants
Course fee: 2300 EUR
Registration closed
The training course will be taught in English.
Participan...
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NFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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17 May 2023
The ICGR brings together high-level decision-makers from regulatory and local government bodies, waste management organisations and public stakeholder communities to review current perspectives of ge...
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26 February 2021
Decommissioning refers to all the actions taken to remove a licensed or authorised nuclear facility as well as legacy sites from regulatory control after their permanent shutdown.
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13 December 2019
The main mission of the Working Group on External Events (WGEV) is to improve the understanding and treatment of external hazards that would support the continued safety performance of nuclear instal...
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10 February 2022
The Working Group supports improved uses of Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA) in risk-informed regulation and safety management through the analysis of results and the development of perspectives...
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20 July 2022
The NEA nuclear science programme is developed and executed by the Nuclear Science Committee (NSC), comprising high-level scientific experts from all NEA member countries.
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15 May 2023
NEA/NSC/R(2022)5
This report presents the results of a benchmark study on innovative fuels for fast reactors using fuel performance codes. Irradiation results were shared among participants of the expert group and co...
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3 April 2023
NEA/NSC/R(2021)3
Monte Carlo criticality calculations involve a two-step procedure based on a stochastic implementation of the power iteration method: first, achieve convergence of the fission source distribution dur...
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17 February 2023
NEA/NSC/R(2021)5
Since the early 2000s there is an increasing demand from nuclear research, industry, safety and regulation for best-estimate predictions to be provided with their confidence bounds. Consequently, an ...
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18 April 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2021)3
Recent operating experience in nuclear power plants has shown that there is a safety concern associated with the use of new industrial devices, including digital devices, in safety power systems in b...
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15 May 2023
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Congress Hall, Paasitorni Helsinki, Finland
Spent nuclear fuel repository site, Olkiluoto, Finland. Photo: Kallerna.
Introduction
The Sixth International Conference on Geological Repositories (ICGR) took place in Helsinki, Finland from 4-8 A...
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3 November 2022
Structure des comités et organes subsidiaires de l’Agence pour l’énergie nucléaire, mai 2023.
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4 October 2022
NEA Committee Structure, May 2023
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4 October 2022
Information note on nuclear power installations in Ukraine, updated periodically.
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12 May 2023
The Brussels Supplementary Convention establishes a scheme to provide compensation supplementary to that required by the Paris Convention. The BSC is open only to contracting parties to the Paris Con...
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12 May 2023
1963 Brussels Supplementary Convention as Amended in 1964 and 1982 (bilingual)
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12 May 2023
1964 Protocol to Amend 1963 Brussels Supplementary Convention
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12 May 2023
1982 Protocol to Amend 1963 Brussels Supplementary Convention
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12 May 2023
1963 Brussels Supplementary Convention
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12 May 2023
The overall objective of the High-level Group on Low Dose Research (HLG-LDR) is to support radiological protection policy, regulation and implementation choices by improving the effectiveness and eff...
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12 May 2023
Convention de Bruxelles complémentaire à la Convention de Paris: Texte consolidé officieux et exposé des motifs
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12 May 2023
All low-carbon solutions will be required to achieve the world's net zero targets. Nuclear energy has a role to play in meeting this need. A wave of innovation in small modular reactors (SMRs) is adv...
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13 March 2023
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17 November 2023
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852, United States
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...
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10 May 2023
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Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States
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27 October 2023
NEA Headquarters, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
The NEA is organising the 16th 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...
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12 April 2023
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23 June 2023
IRSN, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
In the early decades of nuclear reactor development, many countries built and operated zero-power facilities in which many different critical arrangements of materials were studied. These flexible ex...
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6 April 2023
The FIDES-II framework is designed to do more than just produce data on transient fuel behavior and safety related issues.
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7 March 2023
NEST Alumni share valuable lessons from their fellowships
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25 April 2023
The Technical Review Groups for both projects met at the NEA headquarters on 3-7 April 2023.
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24 April 2023
Members of FIDES-II from 12 countries assembled in Prague, Czech Republic, on 17-21 April 2023 for meetings of its Technical Advisory Group and Governing Board.
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21 April 2023
The WPRS met from 20-24 February 2023.
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17 March 2023
Expert groups on structural and fuel materials meet to advance materials science activities
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24 February 2023
Thermodynamic databases and accident prevention
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24 February 2023
International experts gathered at the NEA for the commencement of the third phase TAF-ID on 16-17 February 2023.
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24 February 2023
The Nuclear Law Bulletin is a unique international publication for both professionals and academics in the field of nuclear law. It provides readers with authoritative and comprehensive information o...
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9 May 2023
The dissemination of authoritative information and rigorous analysis to policy makers and other interested stakeholders is key to sound decision making in the nuclear law field. The NEA’s goal is to ...
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8 July 2020
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9 May 2023
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9 May 2023
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17 May 2023
International Convention Center (ICC), Jeju, Korea
Registrations are now closed.
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 ...
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9 May 2023
Principles and Practice of International Nuclear Law examines the various interrelated legal issues for the safe, efficient and secure use of nuclear energy. It provides an overview of the complex bo...
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8 February 2022
In 2002, the NEA CRPPH established a dedicated expert group (EGIR) to evaluate draft general recommendations developed by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) and to provide...
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23 June 2021
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9 May 2023
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11 October 2024
Budapest, Hungary
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...
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12 April 2023
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13 September 2023
IRSN, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
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5 May 2023
The NEA's nuclear data evaluation co-operation activities involve the following evaluation projects: ENDF (United States), JENDL (Japan), ROSFOND/BROND (Russia), JEFF (other Data Bank member countrie...
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9 March 2020
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1 December 2022
NEA premises, France
Picture: ANSTO
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Examining new technolog...
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The CDLM assists member states in holistically addressing challenges in the execution of decommissioning and legacy management through sharing experiences among members with a broad range of expertis...
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5 May 2023
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4 May 2023
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4 May 2023
Established to help fulfil the objectives of the Agency and the Nuclear Science Committee (NSC), the NSC Programme Review Group (PRG) formulates recommendations based on best practices to optimise ac...
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4 May 2023
The Programme Review Group is established to perform a programme quality review function within the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) and to provide scientific assistance to the...
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23 May 2023
Online training & in-person event on 22-23 May 2023 in Bologna, Italy
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) ...
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4 May 2023
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26 May 2023
Idaho National Laboratory, USA
The 2023 Microreactor Deployment Workshop will enable participating student teams to understand the multi-disciplinary challenges in deploying microreactors. Over a one-week course, students will be ...
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2 May 2023
This project aims to integrate SMR research projects from the individual participant organisation countries into a broader and more impactful programme. It will include elements of technology assessm...
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22 March 2023
Presidential Decree on Organisation and Duties of the Nuclear Regulatory Authority
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2 May 2023
The NEA Data Bank Computer Program Service (CPS) has been conducting training activities for more than 30 years. These courses provide a unique opportunity to bring together code users from around th...
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2 May 2023
The Thermochemical Database (TDB) Project develops a reference database of chemical thermodynamic values for elements and compounds relevant to the safety of radioactive waste repositories and vital ...
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2 May 2023
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28 April 2023
23 September 2023
Nantes, France
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28 April 2023
Approximately 30 experts from WGAMA discussed how to advance the understanding of phenomena in pool in the situation of a loss of cooling accident.
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25 April 2023
NEA Regulators' Forum meet at the NEA in Paris to discuss regulatory issues
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26 April 2023
An NEA delegation led by Director-General William D. Magwood, IV visited the Netherlands to meet with government and industry representatives.
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26 April 2023
The Steering Committee for Nuclear Energy convened on 20-21 April in Paris.
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26 April 2023
Cabri Reactor (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives)
The Cabri International Project (CIP) began in March 2000 to study the behaviour of nuclear fuel rods and cladding durin...
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26 April 2023
The Horonobe International Joint Project (HIP) is a collaborative project between the NEA and Japan Atomic Energy Agency established in February 2023.
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25 April 2023
The goal of the Benchmark for Uncertainty Analysis in Best-Estimate Modelling for Design, Operation and Safety Analysis of Light Water Reactors (LWR-UAM) is to determine the uncertainty in light wate...
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25 April 2023
As part of the NEA Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy, the Rising Stars Programme leverages the weight of the Agency and the academic institutions to build new pipeline...
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7 February 2023
The NEA has launched a survey to collect information from member countries to be incorporated into a revised version of the NEA’s Country Protective Measures Handbook.
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25 April 2023
The NEA and the World Association of Nuclear Operators have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
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24 April 2023
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24 April 2023
The CRPPH held its annual meeting on 4-6 April 2023 at the NEA premises in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
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21 April 2023
Information on, including the status of adherence to, the multilateral agreements of highest import to international nuclear law.
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21 April 2023
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29 June 2023
Tokyo (Japan) - Hitotsubashi Hall, National Center of Sciences Building
The NEA in collaboration with the Japanese Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) will host an international workshop on 28-29 June 2023 on the topic of Ageing management considerations in mechanical cod...
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19 April 2023
A cabinet containing copper bus before the HEAF test (left) and after the test(right). Source: NRC
Massive electrical discharges, referred to as high energy arcing faults (HEAF), have occurred in nuc...
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19 April 2023
The Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) was established by the NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) in 2000 and serves as a platform for understanding stakeholder dialogue and discussi...
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19 April 2023
Description of the contents of the IFPE collection, maintained by the NEA and the IAEA.
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19 April 2023
International Fuel Performance Experiments (IFPE) is a data collection of nuclear fuel performance experiments for the purpose of code development and validation.
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19 April 2023
Guidance to request the data collection of nuclear fuel performance experiments for the purpose of code development and validation.
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19 April 2023
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18 April 2023
Under the guidance of the Nuclear Science Committee (NSC), the Task Force on Demonstration of Fuel Cycle Closure including Partitioning and Transmutation (P&T) for Industrial Readiness by 2050 (TF-FC...
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17 April 2023
The NEA will hold the Third Stakeholder Involvement workshop to advance the issue of optimisation in decision making on 5-7 September 2023, in close co-operation with all interested NEA Standing Tech...
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17 April 2023
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17 April 2023
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18 August 2023
Stockholm University, Sweden
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...
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17 April 2023
NEA News is the professional journal of the NEA. It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nuclear safety and regulatio...
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13 April 2023
Development started on DATIF, the DATabase for IFpe, in 2018 in order to enhance accessibility to the IFPE legacy collection of integral fuel performance experiments data, jointly put together by the...
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12 April 2023
The Joint Evaluated Fission and Fusion (JEFF) Nuclear Data Library is a collaboration between NEA Data Bank member countries. The JEFF library combines the efforts of its different Working Groups to ...
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28 May 2020
The Nuclear Data Service of the Data Bank supports the development, compilation, testing, verification and dissemination of experimental and evaluated nuclear data, and develops in-house analysis and...
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28 May 2020
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7 April 2023
NEA Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework leaflet (2023).
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7 April 2023
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18 February 2020
With the growing importance of SMRs, following the proposal of the CSNI Bureau, the CSNI has decided to create an Expert Group on SMRs (EGSMR), at its 69th meeting held on 2-3 June 2021.
Published date:
7 April 2023
The Expert Group on Small and Modular Reactors (EGSMR) continues to make progress with its forthcoming report
Published date:
8 July 2022
The Shielding Integral Benchmark Archive and Database (SINBAD) database contains compilations for 46 reactor shielding, 31 fusion neutronics and 23 accelerator shielding experiments.
Published date:
4 August 2022
ICSBEP, SINBAD AND IRPhEP Technical Review Group meetings
Published date:
18 November 2019
NEA Working Party on Scientific Issues of Reactor Systems (WPRS) annual meeting, 19-21 February 2020.
Published date:
4 March 2020
ICSBEP, SINBAD AND IRPhEP Technical Review Group meetings, October 2021.
Published date:
25 October 2021
NEA Working Party on Scientific Issues of Reactor Systems (WPRS) annual meeting, 15-19 February 2021.
Published date:
24 February 2021
EGPRS Task Force members met on 3 April 2023.
Published date:
7 April 2023
High-temperature gas-cooled nuclear reactors are one of the next generation reactor designs. This benchmark consists of a multi-staged code-to-code-to-data thermal hydraulics code validation benchmar...
Published date:
6 April 2023
Left: Test facility for qualification of melt spreading tests. Photo: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL).
Right: Example of corium melt pouring for a melt spreading preparatory test. Photo: Argonne Nat...
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6 April 2023
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29 March 1990
The main mission of the Working Group on Fuel Safety (WGFS) is to advance the current understanding and address cross-cutting issues related to fuel behaviour in accident conditions, including work o...
Published date:
5 April 2023
The Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) is an international committee created in 1989 to guide the NEA concerning safety in the regulation, licensing and inspection of nuclear installat...
Published date:
10 February 2021
The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) is responsible for NEA programmes and activities that support maintaining and advancing the scientific and technical knowledge base of the ...
Published date:
5 October 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2019)15
The VeRCoRs facility mock-up is a reactor containment building at 1/3 scale. The mock-up is instrumented so that its behaviour is monitored from the beginning of construction. More than 700 sensors a...
Published date:
27 September 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)11
This report summarises the work done for the activity: “Benchmark analysis on the eXtended Finite Element Method (X-FEM) calculation technology in its use to evaluate the fracture mechanics stress in...
Published date:
6 October 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2019)13
Since its inception in 2002, the operating experience with thermal fatigue mechanisms has been an intrinsic aspect of the technical scope of CODAP, which is a joint database project within the Commit...
Published date:
11 October 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)10
Following the recommendations from the technical workshop on “Nuclear Fuel Behaviour during Reactivity-Initiated Accidents” organised by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in September 2009, a first ben...
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18 October 2022
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3 November 2022
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3 November 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2019)11
In the ASCET Phase III, the goal was to assess and develop the Phase II (blind benchmark) recommendations using additional test results. The Phase III simulations were performed using a full set of t...
Published date:
24 November 2022
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)8
The aim of this report is to examine whether there are any international variations in the electrical power system designs (“design variations”) of nuclear power plants that affect the system respons...
Published date:
13 January 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)14
The present report summarises the main results and learnings from the third phase of the NEA Behaviour of Iodine Project (BIP-3), which was conducted between 2016 and 2019 by the Canadian Nuclear Lab...
Published date:
15 February 2023
NEA/CSNI/R(2020)2
In order to reach a better understanding of countries’ different approaches to the evaluation of vibrations detected in piping systems and components, the NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Insta...
Published date:
15 February 2023
Scheme showing the technical scope of NEA ICDE project activities, NEA
Common-cause failure (CCF) events can significantly affect the availability of safety systems of nuclear power plants. In recog...
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30 November 2022
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25 November 2022
JANIS TRANS Checker is a command line tool for EXFOR compilers to check PRELIM or TRANS files and reports potential deviations from EXFOR coding rules.
Published date:
4 April 2023
8 March 2023
13:30-15:00 CET, Online
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...
Published date:
10 February 2023
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...
Published date:
8 March 2023
As a low-carbon electricity source, nuclear energy has a role to play in global climate change mitigation efforts.
Published date:
4 November 2022
Latest status of ratifications or accessions to the Paris Convention on Nuclear Third Party Liability.
Published date:
4 April 2023
État d’avancement des ratifications ou des adhésions à la Convention de Paris sur la responsabilité civile nucléaire.
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4 April 2023
3 -
7 July 2023
Barcelona, Spain
Date: 3-7 July 2023
Location: Universitat de Barcelona - Facultat de Fisica
Diagonal 645
08028 Barcelona - SPAIN
Course fee: 1500 Euros
Registration deadline: 26 May 2023
Participants m...
Published date:
4 April 2023
The "Red Book", is a biennial publication produced jointly by the NEA and the IAEA under the auspices of the joint NEA/IAEA Uranium Group. It is the only government-sponsored publication tracking wor...
Published date:
15 February 2021
NEA/RWM/R(2013)1
This document defines and discusses the purpose and general contents of post-closure safety cases for geological repositories for long-lived radioactive waste. Its aim is to provide a useful point of...
Published date:
13 February 2013
The NEA event reviews the accomplishments of the joint safety projects.
Published date:
27 January 2023
Older issues of the Nuclear Law Bulletin (Nos. 1 to 80).
Published date:
3 April 2023
Anciens numéros du Bulletin de droit nucléaire (nos 1 à 80).
Published date:
3 April 2023
Uranium is the main raw material fuelling all nuclear fission reactors today. Countries around the world use it to reliably generate low-carbon electricity, process heat and hydrogen as part of their...
Published date:
3 April 2023
The International School of Nuclear Law (ISNL) is a two-week programme run annually by the NEA and the University of Montpellier and supported by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Coveri...
Published date:
17 February 2023
21 August 2023 -
1 September 2023
Montpellier, France
The application period for the 2023 session is now closed.
Published date:
3 April 2023
The Paris Convention establishes a nuclear liability and compensation regime to compensate victims of a nuclear accident. The PC is open to OECD member countries as of right and non-member countries ...
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30 March 2023
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31 March 2023
The nuclear sector is constantly looking for new technologies that will make nuclear power plants even more reliable, cost-effective and safe.
Published date:
28 November 2019
The group analyses the potential contribution of uranium mining in economic and social development, and explore whether uranium activities are managed to ensure a positive benefit to local and nation...
Published date:
9 June 2020
The transformative activity of mining has numerous economic, social and environmental impacts that can be both positive and adverse for communities, ecosystems and economies. As the uranium industry ...
Published date:
2 February 2023
International Nuclear Law Essentials course
Published date:
15 March 2023
NEA organises a mentoring workshop in the United Kingdom on International Women's Day.
Published date:
28 March 2023
NEA delegation participates in discussions at the Regulatory Information Conference in Washington D.C.
Published date:
27 March 2023
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29 March 2023
Paris Convention Exposé des Motifs - Bilingual (with disclosure)
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29 March 2023
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29 March 2023
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22 June 2023
NEA, Paris, France
Date: 20-22 June 2023
Place: OECD/NEA Headquarters
46, Quai Alphonse Le Gallo
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt (Paris) - FRANCE
Minimum enrollment: 8 participants
Maximum enrollment: 16 participan...
Published date:
28 March 2023
On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake of magnitude 9.0 on the Richter scale jolted the eastern coast of Japan. An hour after the earthquake, a 14-15 m tsunami, as estimated at the Fukushima Daiichi ...
Published date:
9 March 2023
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.
Published date:
12 July 2022
31 August 2022 -
1 September 2022
Iwaki Business Innovation Center, Fukushima, Japan
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (NDF) are organising an international workshop on the characterisation of large quanti...
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17 August 2022
25 -
26 October 2022
Venue: NH Hotel Berlin Mitte, Leipziger Str. 106-111, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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...
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14 October 2022
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23 March 2023
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23 March 2023
The 9th edition of the Computational Fluid Dynamics for Nuclear Reactor Safety workshop was hosted by Texas A&M University on 20-22 February 2023.
Published date:
23 March 2023
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...
Published date:
10 June 2020
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...
Published date:
6 January 2002
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) fully supports the proposals made by the IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi to ensure that the seven pillars of nuclear security and safety are maintaine...
Published date:
9 March 2022
Statement of the Steering Committee for Nuclear Energy on the safety and security of operation of Ukraine’s nuclear installations
Published date:
27 April 2022
The NEA’s ruling body the Steering Committee for Nuclear Energy met for its143rd biannual meeting in April 2022.
Published date:
27 April 2022
The NEA survey on the status of nuclear education, training and outreach in member countries is conducted by the NEA Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy Working Group 2:...
Published date:
22 March 2023
The NEST HYMERES project addresses safety-relevant phenomena in containments during accidents. It offers hands-on training opportunities during the experimental test campaigns carried at the PSI PAND...
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22 March 2023
The project led by JAEA/CLADS will be dedicated to advanced remote technology for decommissioning under intense gamma-ray radiation environments (e.g. robotics, virtual reality).
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22 March 2023
MANTRAS includes educational and training courses, events on applications in the medical sector, and access to the available research infrastructures. It focuses in particular on the development of n...
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22 March 2023
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire. Ses lecteurs bénéficient d’informations exhaustiv...
Published date:
17 December 1997
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire. Ses lecteurs bénéficient d’informations exhaustiv...
Published date:
17 December 1997
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire. Ses lecteurs bénéficient d’informations exhaustiv...
Published date:
17 December 1997
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire. Ses lecteurs bénéficient d’informations exhaustiv...
Published date:
17 December 1997
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire. Ses lecteurs bénéficient d’informations exhaustiv...
Published date:
17 December 1997
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire. Ses lecteurs bénéficient d’informations exhaustiv...
Published date:
17 December 1997
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire. Ses lecteurs bénéficient d’informations exhaustiv...
Published date:
17 December 1997
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire. Ses lecteurs bénéficient d’informations exhaustiv...
Published date:
17 December 1997
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire. Ses lecteurs bénéficient d’informations exhaustiv...
Published date:
17 December 1997
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire. Ses lecteurs bénéficient d’informations exhaustiv...
Published date:
17 December 1997
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire. Ses lecteurs bénéficient d’informations exhaustiv...
Published date:
17 December 1997
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire. Ses lecteurs bénéficient d’informations exhaustiv...
Published date:
17 December 1997
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire. Ses lecteurs bénéficient d’informations exhaustiv...
Published date:
17 December 1997
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire. Ses lecteurs bénéficient d’informations exhaustiv...
Published date:
17 December 1997
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire. Ses lecteurs bénéficient d’informations exhaustiv...
Published date:
17 December 1997
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire. Ses lecteurs bénéficient d’informations exhaustiv...
Published date:
17 December 1997
Le Bulletin de droit nucléaire est une publication internationale unique en son genre destinée aux juristes et aux universitaires en droit nucléaire. Ses lecteurs bénéficient d’informations exhaustiv...