Emergency preparedness programmes around the world are designed to protect people from the health effects arising from radiological releases. The science behind these programmes is both well known an...

The potential deployment of small modular reactors (SMRs) is viewed by many countries as a transformative opportunity to support net zero objectives through various power and non-power applications. ...

Scaling up investment flows in nuclear energy is one of the major challenges for OECD and NEA countries that have decided or are considering the construction of nuclear power plants. This report offe...

This publication on small modular reactors (SMRs) for mining is the first of a series of NEA case studies that assess the opportunities and challenges for SMRs to support decarbonisation of hard-to-a...

This report established by the NEA Working Group on Fuel Safety (WGFS) of the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) compiles the state-of-the-art knowledge on fuel behaviour in loss...

Realising the full contribution of nuclear energy to achieving net zero targets requires mastering the challenge of financing and constructing significant numbers of new reactors. This new NEA report...

A healthy safety culture has long been considered essential to maintaining high levels of nuclear safety. Although safety goals across countries are similar, the operational realities vary due to a r...

健全な安全文化は、原子力安全を高いレベルで維持するために必須なことであると考えられてきた。各国が目指すことは類似しているが、国の文化的特性を含む様々な要因により、実際の取り組み状況は異なる。このような特性は、安全文化に良い影響を与えることもあれば課題となることもある。したがって、原子力界においては、それぞれの文化的背景の中でどのような影響が存在するかを特定し、これらの影響が安全文化にどのような効...

The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), in co-ordination with the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) of Japan, hosted the “International Conference on Regulators’ Views and Priorities on Nuclear Safety and ...

This is Volume 15 in the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) “Chemical Thermodynamics” series that features expert reviews of the chemical thermodynamics of key chemical elements in nuclear technology a...