The present task was requested in June 2007 by the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Bureau in order to provide recommendations to the CSNI on methods and information sources fo...

The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installtions (CSNI) Working Group on Risk Assessment (WGRISK) was tasked with expanding work in three specific fields, in order to create an information base an...

The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Risk Assessment (WGRISK) initiated a task on probabilistic risk criteria.

The scope includes the whole range of criteria f...

The workshop on Taking Account of Feedback on Sump Clogging was held at the OECD Conference Centre in Paris, France on 4-5 December 2008. It was organised under the auspices of the Committee on Nucle...

The Best-estimate Methods – Uncertainty and Sensitivity Evaluation (BEMUSE) programme, promoted by the Working Group on Accident Management and Analysis (WGAMA) and endorsed by the Committee on the S...

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is to an increasing extent being adopted in nuclear reactor safety analyses as a tool that enables specific safety relevant phenomena occurring in the reactor coola...

There is a growing interest from some nuclear regulatory bodies, as well as licensees, in methods and approaches that can be used to ensure that the licensee organisations are well structured and hav...

The NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) authorised formation of a task group in January 2008 to examine Defence in Depth of Electrical Systems and Grid Interaction with nuclea...

The Symposium is free of charge for all participants and is scheduled to take place in person at ONR’s offices near Liverpool in the United Kingdom. 

Key Dates

Top LinkedIn post, December 2021

The NEA has started preparing its third Stakeholder Involvement Workshop which will focus on optimisation in decision-making.

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...

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and Idaho National Laboratory are co-organising the Sixth International Workshop on Structural Materials for Innovative Nuclear Systems (SMINS-6). The workshop wi...

In 2021, the NEA organised online workshops, webinars and mentoring sessions with policy makers, experts, academics and industry representatives in the nuclear energy sector, published data analyses ...

The main decision body of the NEST Framework is the Management Board which includes one member and one alternate from each NEST Country.

The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) considered there was a need to review the state-of-the-art tech...

The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) established the Task Group on Advanced Reactor Experimental Facilities (TAREF) in 2008 with the objective of providing an overview of facil...

This technical opinion paper represents the consensus of the Committe on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Human and Organisational Factors (WGHOF) on the state of research ...

In 2000, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) approved the establishment of a Fire Incident Records Exchange Project on collection of data on fire events at nuclear power plant...

The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) mandated the preparation of a SOAR with four main objectives:

• to assess the status of existing experimental data and analytical capabiliti...

The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Risk Assessment (WGRISK) initiated a task to review the methods for risk analysis of off-site external events other than e...

This Phase II exercise was the first benchmarking of severe accident codes promoted by NEA in almost 20 years. The objective of the exercise was to perform a code benchmark on a well-defined plant (s...

This report documents the proceedings of a Committe on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) workshop on risk-informed piping integrity management. Hosted by the Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear (CS...

Following the recommendations of a previous meeting held in Jeju, Korea on 6-8 November 2006, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) approved a proposal of the Working Group on I...

The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) has as a general mandate to advance the current understanding o...

During the mid 1990s a task group was formed within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development/Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD/NEA) to exchange information on events involving computer-ba...

The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Human and Organisational Factors (WGHOF) is tasked to improve the current understanding of human and organisational perfor...

The NEA Working Group on Human and Organisational Factors (WGHOF) is tasked to improve the current understanding of human and organisational performance and the way in which this impacts upon nuclear...

Regulatory bodies are taking a growing interest in the issue of safety culture, and several are actively working to develop and implement approaches to maintaining oversight of licensee safety cultur...

One of the key areas of uncertainty in current probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) involves human reliability analysis (HRA). The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Gro...

Co-Chair: Raul Barrachina (left), National Atomic Energy Commission and Kenichi Ishikawa (right), University of Tokyo

Co-Chair: Ian Farnan (left), University of Cambridge and Man-Sung Yim (right), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Co-Chairs: Seungjin Kim (left), Purdue University and Vera Verkhoturova (right), Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPHI)

Co-Chair: Emanuela Colombo (left), Politecnico di Milano and Edward Obbard (right), The University of New South Wales Sydney (UNSW)

The Fundamentals of International Nuclear Law (FINL) is an online programme run by the NEA that provies a high-level, introductory review of the central aspects of international nuclear law.  

* Application period closing on Friday, 14 January 2022

The 2022 Fundamentals of International Nuclear Law (FINL) has been designed by the NEA to provide a high-level, introductory review of the cent...

The work of the Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework during 2021.

Structure des comités et organes subsidiaires de l’Agence pour l’énergie nucléaire, janvier 2022.

NEA Committee Structure, January 2022

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...

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.

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) launched the Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework in 2019.

The activities of the NEST Framework are expected to contribute to nuclear-related...

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) launched the Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework in 2019.

The activities of the NEST Framework are expected to contribute to nuclear-related...

Online services for official delegates to NEA meetings.

To mark the tenth anniversary of the Chernobyl accident, the NEA Committee on Radiation Protection and Public Health published a concise report reviewing the current knowledge of the serious impacts ...

Latest status of ratifications or accessions to the Paris Convention on Nuclear Third Party Liability. 

Convention du 29 juillet 1960 sur la responsabilité civile dans le domaine de l’énergie nucléaire, modifiée par le Protocole additionnel du 28 janvier 1964, par le Protocole du 16 novembre 1982 et pa...

Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy of 29 July 1960, as amended by the Additional Protocol of 28 January 1964, by the Protocol of 16 November 1982 and by the Protocol o...

^{Spent nuclear fuel repository site, Olkiluoto, Finland. Photo: Kallerna.}

Introduction

The Sixth International Conference on Geological Repositories (ICGR) will take place in Helsinki, Finland from ...

Created in 2019, under the guidance of the Working Party on Scientific Issues of Reactor Systems (WPRS) the expert group will perform specific tasks associated with core thermal-hydraulics aspects of...

The NEA participated in COP 26 in Glasgow, United Kingdom, to shed light on nuclear energy’s role in addressing climate change.

Statut des ratifications et adhésions à la Convention de Bruxelles complémentaire à la Convention de Paris

Latest status of ratifications or accessions of the Brussels Supplementary Convention (BSC). 

The Protocols to amend the Paris Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy and the Brussels Convention Supplementary to the Paris Convention will enter force on 1 January 202...

The Workshop on Experimental Validation and Application of CFD and CMFD Codes to Nuclear Reactor Safety Issues, CFD4NRS-7 was the seventh in a series of workshops focusing on Computational Fluid Dyna...

This NEST project addresses the main issues of i‑graphite management, including characterisation, decontamination and disposal.

This report provides a description of the state-of-the-art in the development and use of risk monitors at nuclear power plants in member states. The work was carried out jointly by the International ...

At the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) meeting of June 2002, a proposal for a benchmark on thermal fatigue in fluid mixing areas based on the test performed by the Commissaria...

This document is the third in a series of the NEA’s Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Operating Experience (WGOE) technical notes on nuclear power plant (NPP) r...

The TMI-2 accident keeps providing unique full scale data giving opportunities to check the ability of the codes to model overall plant behaviour and to perform many sensitivity and uncertainty calcu...

The joint NEA/IAEA Uranium Group held its 57th meeting virtually on 3-5 November 2021.

The Working Party on Nuclear Emergency Matters (WPNEM) met on 3-5 November 2021. Discussions included how countries are continuing to learn from and adapt their emergency management arrangements in r...

In December 2000, the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) and the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) agreed to prepare a state-of-the art report addressing the pres...

At the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) meeting in June 2002, the proposal for an International Standard Problem on containment integrity (ISP 48) based on the NRC/NUPEC/Sandia...

At the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) meeting in June 2002, the proposal for an International Standard Problem on containment integrity (ISP 48) based on the NRC/NUPEC/Sandia...

At the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) meeting in June 2002, the proposal for an International Standard Problem on containment integrity (ISP 48) based on the NRC/NUPEC/Sandia...

At the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) meeting of June 2002, a proposal for an International Standard Problem on containment integrity (ISP 48) based on the NRC/NUPEC/Sandia t...

In 2002, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) requested the Working Group on the Integrity and Ageing of Reactor Components and Structures (WGIAGE) to prepare a programme of wo...

In December 2000, the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) and the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) agreed to prepare a state-of-the art report addressing the pres...

The OECD/NEA Committee on Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) addressed the issue of modifications at a workshop on “Modifications at Nuclear Power Plants – Operating Experience, Safety Significan...

This report is a joint effort of the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Risk Assessment (WGRISK) and the Co-operative Probabilistic Risk Assessment (COOPRA) prog...

This report is a joint effort of the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Risk Assessment (WGRISK) and the Co-operative Probabilistic Risk Assessment (COOPRA) prog...

This report is a joint effort of the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Risk Assessment (WGRISK) and the Co-operative Probabilistic Risk Assessment (COOPRA) prog...

The Committee on Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Special Experts’ Group on Human and Organisational Factors (SEGHOF) was requested by the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Actions (CNRA) to exam...

The Best-estimate Methods – Uncertainty and Sensitivity Evaluation (BEMUSE) Programme, promoted by the Working Group on Accident Management and Analysis (WGAMA) and endorsed by the Committee on the S...

This document is intended to provide regulators, their technical support organisations and industry with a concise review of existing fuel experimental data at reactivity-initiated accident (RIA) and...

The purpose of this report is to present in a concise form how some safety matters associated with currently operating light water reactors have been addressed. The issues discussed in this report ar...

Due to the importance of human and organisational performance on nuclear plant maintenance, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Special Experts’ Group on Human and Organisatio...

The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI), at its meeting in June 2003, agreed to conduct a survey to collect information that help to identify common needs and area of potential co...

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency has long recognised the importance of iodine behaviour and has organised workshops and international standard problems on the subject. In the meantime, experimental and...

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is to an increasing extent being adopted in nuclear reactor safety analyses as a tool that enables specific safety relevant phenomena occurring in the reactor coola...

The Best-estimate Methods – Uncertainty and Sensitivity Evaluation (BEMUSE) programme promoted by the Working Group on Accident Management and Analysis (WGAMA) and endorsed by the Committee on the Sa...

Uncertainty in relation to several severe accident phenomena plays a major role in probabilistic safety analyses involving beyond-design-basis accident scenarios for nuclear power plants. The technic...

In May 2002, an “Exploratory Meeting of Experts to Define an Action Plan on the Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Codes to Nuclear Reactor Safety Problems” was held in Aix-en-Provence...

This report provides an overview of experimental facilities that can be used to address nuclear safety research issues in OECD member countries, and identifies priorities for organising international...

Experimental facilities in nuclear energy are key to addressing safety issues. The recent loss of some critical infrastructure, from facilities to industry expertise, has therefore become a concern f...

The Operating Plan describes the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) responsibility and organisation, overall scope of work and working methods, and is supplemented by the so-call...

The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Human and Oganisational Factors (WGHOF) and the Halden Reactor Project (HRP) hosted a joint workshop titled “Future Contro...

In 1998, the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) issued a report on Future Nuclear Regulatory Challenges. This report discussed the potential erosion of safety margins as an area for fu...

The main objective of ISP-47 was to assess the capabilities of lumped parameter (LP) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes in the area of containment thermal-hydraulics. Following the recommen...

The Steam Explosion Resolution for Nuclear Applications (SERENA) programme stems from concerns expressed by the Senior Group of Experts on Nuclear Safety Research Facilities and Programmes (SESAR/FAP...

The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Risk Assessment (WGRISK) produced a report in July 2002 on “The Use and Development of Probabilistic Safety Assessment in ...

Following recommendations made at an “Exploratory Meeting of Experts to Define an Action Plan on the Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Codes to Nuclear Reactor Safety (NRS) Problems”,...

This is a summary report from the “Specialist Meeting on Seismic Probabilistic Safety Assessment (SPSA) of Nuclear Facilities”, held in Jeju, Korea on 6-8 November 2006. About 75 specialists from 15 ...

In 1997, the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Risk Assessment (WGRISK) produced a report on the state of the art in Level 2 PSA and severe accident management ...

At the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) meeting in June 2003, a proposal of the CSNI Working Group on the Integrity and Ageing (WGIAGE) to examine the differences in approach b...

The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Workshop on Structural Reliability Evaluation and Mechanical Probabilistic Approaches of NPP Components was held in Lyon, France on 25-27 S...

Common-cause-failure (CCF) events can significantly impact the availability of safety systems of nuclear power plants. For this reason, the International Common Cause Failure Data Exchange (ICDE) pro...

The OECD-IAEA Paks Fuel Project was established in 2005 as a joint project between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). The IAEA provided financial ...

At their meeting of December 2006, the NEA Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) and the NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) agreed to hold a workshop on the Role ...

In 2007, the NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) issued a report titled Nuclear Safety Research in OECD Countries: Support Facilities for Existing and Advanced Reactors (SFEAR...

The Best-estimate Methods – Uncertainty and Sensitivity Evaluation (BEMUSE) programme, promoted by the Working Group on Accident Management and Analysis (WGAMA) and endorsed by the Committee on the S...

The Best-estimate Methods – Uncertainty and Sensitivity Evaluation (BEMUSE) programme, promoted by the Working Group on Accident Management and Analysis (WGAMA) and endorsed by the Committee on the S...

The Best-estimate Methods – Uncertainty and Sensitivity Evaluation (BEMUSE) programme, promoted by the Working Group on Accident Management and Analysis (WGAMA) and endorsed by the Committee on the S...

The Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) has as a general mandate to advance the current understanding o...

From left: OECD Secretary General Mathias Cormann, NEA Director-General William D. Magwood, IV

The 2021 SMR Prize Competition brought together 28 students representing different academic and research organisations participating in the NEA Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Small M...

NEA Director-General William D. Magwood, IV explains how an energy mix that includes nuclear power can help achieve global climate change goals.

The mission of the Expert Group of Shielding aspects of Accelerators, Targets and Irradiation Facilities (SATIF) has been completed. Its work initiated the SATIF workshops which keep on serving as in...

Under the guidance of the Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS), the Expert Group on Physics of Reactor Systems (EGPRS) performs specific tasks associa...

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop, 30 October-2 November 2018, Gyeongju, Korea.

The NEA Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) and the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) held their biannual meetings from 6 to 9 December 2021 and discussed the evol...

WGPC held its biannual plenary meeting on 9-10 November 2021 to discuss its ongoing work and the progress made in activities on public trust and risk communication.

The task group met virtually for the fourth high-level NEA meeting on improving gender balance.

In co-operation with the Nuclear and Radioactive Waste Agency of Romania the NEA organised a mentoring session with Romanian high school students.

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 Multinational Design Evaluation Programme (MDEP) entered a new phase on 14 December 2021. The MDEP will continue in its role as a unique multinational initiative leveraging the resources and know...

Multinational Design Evaluation Programme (MDEP) Policy Group meeting, 14 December 2021

The webinar "Research and international dialogue in technology nuclear power - What role for Italy?", was held on 17- 18 November 2021.

Overview of FRENDY

FRENDY (FRom Evaluated Nuclear Data librarY to any application) is a system to process evaluated nuclear data library and generate cross section library for transport codes. Featur...

The Working Group on the Characterisation, the Understanding and the Performance of Argillaceous Rocks and Repository Host Formations (Clay Club) marked its 30^th anniversary at its meeting on 17 Nove...

Official document establishing the Working Group on the Characterisation, the Understanding and the Performance of Argillaceous Rocks and Repository Host Formations (Clay Club)

THe Expert Group on a Holistic Process for Decision Making on Decommissioning and Management of Complex Sites (HDCS) continues to make progress with its forthcoming report to describe the scope of co...

Ambassador Antonio Bernardini, Permanent Representation of Italy to the International Organisations in Paris 

FISPACT-II (currently at release version 5.0) is an enhanced multi-physics platform providing a wide variety of advanced simulation methods and employing the most up-to-date, TENDL-2017, ENDF/B-VIII....

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 ...

DG Magwood meets with Minister responsible for the expansion of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant Janos Suli and State Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office  Pal Kovacs, Budapest, 1 December 2021 

NEA Expert Group on the Application of Robotics and Remote Systems in the Nuclear Back-end (EGRRS) discusses how to improve the regulatory framework for robotic and remote systems applications.

Joint Evaluated Fission and Fusion (JEFF) project agrees to establish a new project management group to oversee deliverable-focused mechanisms that include regular reviews of the status of new measur...

Due to circumstances imposed by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this year's event will take place online.

The 5^th edition of the annual NEA TDB course on the topic of thermodynamic data collection a...

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, ...

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 differen...

Joint Evaluated Fission and Fusion (JEFF) project meeting, November 2021

This brochure describes the mandate, profile, focus areas, and future challenges of the  Regulators’ Forum (RF).

The Liquid Metal Fast Reactor (LFMR) is one of the next generation reactor designs. This benchmark consists of steady-state numerical predictions of Texas A&M University (TAMU) separate effect tests ...

The NEA Working Group on Safety Culture (WGSC) held its biannual meeting on 23-25 November 2021 to review the ongoing work on safety culture and leadership in nuclear regulators.

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...

Focused on recent progress and challenges for nuclear financing, the virtual event concluded a series of six webinars dedicated to nuclear financing organised this year.

Insights from Leaders in Nuclear Energy shares personal insights through a series of in-depth conversations between the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Director-General and leading figures in the sector. ...

Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Director-General William D. Magwood, IV sat down with Director-General Wanner and Chief Nuclear Officer Harrison during the NEA-IAEA-WANO Human Capital Workshop in June 20...

Mr William D. Magwood, IV, Director General, Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD-NEA), delivers his opening remarks at the International Minister...

NEA Director‑General William D. Magwood, IV, undertook his first official visit to Poland on 28‑29 May 2018 for meetings with the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Investment and Economic Developme...

 Treated water currently stored at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station: Message from Director-General Magwood

Mr Magwood took up his duties as Director-General of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) on 1 September 2014. He has extensive experience in both the regulatory and developmental aspects of nuclear energ...

NEA Director General William D. Magwood, IV delivering his opening remarks at the International Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Power in the 21st Century. St Regis Saadiyat Island Resort, Abu Dhabi...

The NEA held a WebChat H.E. Michał Kurtyka, Poland's Minister of Climate and 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24) President.

The NEA held a WebChat with Dr Rita Baranwal, Assistant Secretary for the Office of Nuclear Energy in the United States Department of Energy (DOE).

The NEA held a WebChat with H.E. Mohamed Al Hammadi, Chief Executive Officer of the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC).

The NEA hosted a WebChat with Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), on 15 October 2020. Watch here.

The NEA hosted a WebChat with Shawn Tupper, Associate Deputy Minister of Natural Resources Canada, on 25 November 2020.

NEA Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework session at the Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 201) on 10 February 2021.

The Council of Advisors to the Global Forum, comprising representatives from academic institutions in NEA member countries, convened on 28 June 2021 to formalise the operational model of the forum an...

“You can do it!” was the theme of the International Mentoring Workshop in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics held jointly by the NEA, the International Framework for Nuclear Energy Coop...

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

Generation IV International Forum (GIF) updates 

Nuclear legislation: Slovak Republic

In the past decade, a large amount of effort has been made towards the direct simulation of the boiling transition (BT) for boiling water reactor (BWR) fuel bundles. This international benchmark, bas...

In the past decade, a large amount of effort has been made towards the direct simulation of the boiling transition (BT) for Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) fuel bundles. This international benchmark, bas...

Energy markets will be significantly different in the future. The electricity generation system is becoming more diverse with the development of energy-related technologies including renewable energy...

In the aftermath of the Fukushima accident, the nuclear community has been re-evaluating seismic hazard at nuclear facilities worldwide. One of the major challenges in this effort is quantifying and ...

Nuclear power plants are used extensively as base load sources of electricity. This is the most economical and technically simple mode of operation. In this mode, power changes are limited to frequen...

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 ...

The Expert Group on Characterisation Methodology of Unconventional and Legacy Waste (EGCUL) was established under the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) and it ...

The NEA Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) and the NEA Working Group on Public Communication of Nuclear Regulatory Organisations (WGPC) organised a joint workshop “How to deal with misinformation?...

In July 2016, the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) held a joint workshop to evaluate the current state of the art on operational safety of geological repo...

The expert group dealt with the activities associated with the certification of experimental data and benchmark models along with establishing the processes and procedures for using the data and benc...

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...

The NEA hosted an expert roundtable discussion on 8 October 2021 to reflect on twenty years of Regulators' Forum (RF) work and trace the evolution of the roles and responsibilities of nuclear safety ...

The NEA participated in the COP 26 United Nations Climate Change Conference from 31 October to 12 November 2021 for dialogues on the role that nuclear energy could play in achieving the decarbonisati...

The NEA is working with its member countries to promote gender balance and the development of female leaders in the nuclear energy sector so as to ensure a robust, diverse and sustainable nuclear wor...

Improves the existing regime by requiring that significantly more compensation be made available to supplement that which is to be provided for under the Paris Convention.

This activity of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Working Group on Integrity and Ageing of Components and Structures (WGIAGE) is entitled “Asses...

The Working Party on Scientific Issues and Uncertainty Analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS) studies the reactor physics, fuel performance, and radiation transport and shielding in present and future nu...

The Expert Group on System Reactor Multi-physics (EGMUP) advances the state of the art in establishing processes and procedures for certifying experimental data and benchmarking multi-physics multi-s...

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...

The Expert Group on Shielding Aspects of Accelerators, Targets and Irradiation Facilities (SATIF) dealt with the various aspects of the modelling and design of accelerator shield systems and radiatio...

The application period for the 2022 ISNL session will open in January 2022

The Shielding Integral Benchmark Archive and Database (SINBAD) database contains compilations for 46 reactor shielding, 31 fusion neutronics and 23 accelerator shielding experiments.

The purpose of this prismatic High Temperature Reactor (HTR) benchmark is to provide a solution set that can be used in future code benchmarking and to better understand the effects induced by the pr...

During the six decades of commercial nuclear power operation so far, nuclear programmes in Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) member countries have grown significantly. Effective communication among member ...

This report provides descriptions of the current status of PSA programmes in member countries; including basic background information, guidelines, various PSA applications, major results in recent st...

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

The International School of Nuclear Law (ISNL) Commemorative Brochure highlights the history, academics and unique features of the ISNL that contribute to the "Spirit of Montpellier". In addition, th...

The Crystalline Club (CRC) is composed of technical experts with experience in evaluating or reviewing the understanding of crystalline rock as host rocks for deep geologic disposal projects. CRC mem...

The Clay Club promotes the exchange of information, shared approaches and methods to develop and document an understanding of clay media as a host rock for a repository.

The WP-IDKM supports member countries to tackle problems in managing and preserving information, data and knowledge of radioactive waste and decommissioning over generations.

Sustainable development is a goal that transcends national boundaries and generations of people. It integrates environmental protection, economic growth and social welfare.

The 5^th edition of the annual NEA TDB course on the topic of thermodynamic data collection and assessment will take place as a two-session webinar (three hours per session) on 18 -19  November 2021.

The main objective of the Salt Club is to make the current knowledge base on rock salt more readily available to member countries, particularly those countries with adequate rock salt deposits to hos...

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...

The Fundamentals of International Nuclear Law (FINL) is a new online course developed by the NEA to provide a high-level, introductory review of the central aspects of international nuclear law in a ...

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 ...

The main mission of the Working Group on Human and Organisational Factors (WGHOF) is to improve the understanding and technical basis for treating human and organisational factors within the nuclear ...

To ensure reliable modelling of neutron physics within a state-of-the-art transient code, the neutron kinetics part of such a code should be based on the full-scale calculation of the space-time neu...

The Regulators' Forum (RF) is made up of regulators who participate in the work of the RWMC and CDLM, helping to address common regulatory issues of NEA member countries.

The conference offers an opportunity to stakeholders involved in the implementation, management and development of occupational radiation protection policies to share and discuss experiences.

The con...

The 2021 International Nuclear Law Congress has been postponed to 2022. As the principal INLA gathering, held every two years, the Congress serves as the leading international conference for represen...

The NEA organised a virtual workshop on 7 October 2021 to explore the opportunities and challenges associated with High-temperature reactors for industrial heat applications.

The NEA held its 142^nd Steering Committee meeting in October 2021.

Theme: The important role of early career nuclear graduates in fighting climate change

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has interrupted many aspects of everyday life, including the opportunity for...

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.

The NEA Co‑operative Programme for the Exchange of Scientific and Technical Information Concerning Nuclear Installation Decommissioning Projects (CPD) held its Technical Advisory Group (TAG) meeting ...

The NEA Expert Group on Innovative Structural Materials (EGISM) organised a workshop on 19-21 October 2021 together with the Spanish Center for Energy, Environmental and Technological Research (CIEMA...

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

The Generation IV International Forum (GIF) held its semi-annual Policy Group meetings from 18 to 28 October 2021 to review and discuss its ongoing work and activities.

The 15th workshop on Shielding aspects of Accelerators, Targets, and Irradiation Facilities (SATIF) is tentatively planned to be held in East Lansing, Michigan, USA, on 20-23 September 2022. The SATI...

The Ad hoc Expert Group on Climate Change: Assessment of the Vulnerability of Nuclear Power Plants and Cost of Adaptation (NUCA) is responsible for assesing the vulnerability of nuclear power plants,...

Climate change will create specific risks and challenges for nuclear power plants and the electricity system as a whole. Extreme weather events caused by climate change – such as floods, storms, heat...

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The implementation of the Kyoto Protocol and the application of its "flexible mechanisms" are at the forefront of energy policy debates in most OECD countries. The potential role of nuclear energy in...

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The NEA Data Bank organised its second online training session on FISPACT-II from 18 to 28 October 2021. Facilitated by the code developers at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, the course a...

Contracting Parties to the Paris Convention meeting, 28 October 2021.

As a member of the Inter-Agency Committee on Radiological and Nuclear Emergencies (IACRNE), the NEA recently participated in the latest ConvEx-3 exercise held on 26-27 October 2021.

The NEA Expert Group on Comparison and Understanding of Dose Prognosis (EGDP) held its first meeting on 14 October 2020 via video conference.

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NEA Working Group on Human and Organisational Factors (WGHOF) held its biannual meeting on 25-26 October 2021.

MDEP VVER Working Group (VVERWG) meeting, 25-26 May 2021.

The NEA is organising the 16^th Information Exchange Meeting on Actinide and Fission Product Partitioning and Transmutation (16IEMPT) on 26-30 June 2022. The meeting will be held in Saint Petersburg, ...

The NEA spoke with Professor Okamoto, who leads the NEST ARTERD project on the NEST Framework and its objectives.

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Insights from the NEST Framework: A chat with Lea Zimmermann, NEST Fellow

NEA Forum on Stakeholder Confidence held its annual plenary meeting on 12-14 October 2021.

The NEA Working Group on Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) organised a specialist workshop entitled “Reactor core and containment cooling systems: Long-term management and reliability (RCC...

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 ...

The working groups are comprised of experts from primarily academic institutions and other relevant stakeholders from NEA member and non-member countries.   

Virtual kick-off meeting for the new joint project Experiments on Source Term for Delayed Releases (ESTER), 28-30 September 2020.

Since 2001, the NEA has been consistently providing educational and training programmes in international nuclear law to students and professionals from around the world. The NEA’s goal is to serve as...

Under the guidance of the Working Party on Scientific Issues of Reactor Systems (WPRS) the expert group performs specific tasks associated with fuel performance aspects of present and future nuclear ...

The International Nuclear Law Essentials (INLE) is a one-week programme run by the NEA covering practical issues in international nuclear law.

The NEA Expert Group on International Recommendations (EGIR) met for the first time on 8 October 2021 to set out its proposed work plan and discuss initial findings for the review.

The expert group provided advice to the Working Party on Scientific Issues of Reactor Systems (WPRS) on the scientific development needs (data and methods, validation experiments, scenario studies) o...

Under the Paris Agreement, OECD countries agreed to aim for a reduction of their greenhouse gas emissions sufficient to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre...

Under the Paris Agreement, OECD countries agreed to aim for a reduction of their greenhouse gas emissions sufficient to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre...

Nuclear economics refers to the study of costs related to nuclear energy, which includes electricity generation, uranium supply, new plant build and support, fuel, waste disposal and decommissioning....