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 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...

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 ...