Nuclear energy is an important source of low-carbon electricity and plays a significant role in avoiding carbon emissions. It has the potential to contribute further to the decarbonisation of the wor...

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 the industrial sector and technical ...

Nuclear Energy Data is the Nuclear Energy Agency’s annual compilation of statistics and country reports documenting nuclear power status in NEA member countries and in the OECD area. Information prov...

More than ten years after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, many lessons have been learnt that have helped improve preparedness for nuclear emergencies and awareness of the global r...

One of the key areas in fuel safety is the analysis of fuel behaviour under reactivity-initiated accident conditions. Reactivity-initiated accident fuel rod codes have been developed for a significan...

The OECD/NEA Working Group on the Characterisation, the Understanding and the Performance of Argillaceous Rocks as Repository Host Formations, namely the “Clay Club”, examines the various argillaceou...

The NEA Clay Club has been gathering the key geoscientific characteristics of the various argillaceous formations that are – or have been – studied in NEA member countries in the context of radioacti...

Any long-term radioactive waste management project is likely to last decades to centuries. It requires a physical site and will impact in a variety of ways on the surrounding community over that whol...

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...

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...

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...

Understanding the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is important for safe and timely decommissioning of the reactors. This objective, together with the development of better compu...

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 existing nuclear fleet remains the largest low-carbon source of electricity generation in OECD countries. In 2021 the average nuclear power plant had already been operating for 31 years and some ...

The world’s nuclear power reactors are ageing, with the majority approaching the end of their planned operational lifetimes in the coming years. The adequacy of funding for decommissioning and radioa...

As the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (NPP) accident illustrates, many challenges have to be faced in maintaining safety over the long term in a damaged NPP following a severe accident. These ...

Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) are gaining recognition among policymakers and industry players as a promising nuclear technology. SMRs can be defined as nuclear reactors with a power output between 10...

Nuclear Energy Data is the Nuclear Energy Agency’s annual compilation of statistics and country reports documenting nuclear power status in NEA member countries and in the OECD area. Information prov...

The Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE) is jointly sponsored by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Since 1992, ISOE has provided a forum...

The decisions made about protective actions of people and the environment in situations involving exposure to ionising radiation have tended to be driven by subjective judgements about the health ris...

This volume is the 14^th in the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Chemical Thermodynamics series. It is the second update of the critical reviews published, successively, in 1992 as Chemical Thermodyna...

Uranium is the raw material used to produce fuel for long-lived nuclear power facilities, necessary for the generation of significant amounts of low-carbon electricity and other uses, such as heat an...

Radioactive waste inventory data are an important element in the development of a national radioactive waste management programme since these data affect the design and selection of the ultimate disp...

Radioactive waste inventory data are an important element in the development of a national radioactive waste management programme since these data affect the design and selection of the ultimate disp...

The diversity in classification schemes across countries has restricted the possibility of comparing waste inventories and led to difficulties in interpreting waste management practices, both nationa...

This report examines the predisposal phase of radioactive waste management programmes in NEA member countries for all types of waste from high-level to intermediate- and low-level waste, and spent fu...

This joint report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) is the ninth in a series of studies on electricity generating costs. As countries work towards ensuring ...

DOI: 10.1787/9789264287631-fr

Assurer la gestion des déchets résultant de la production d’énergie nucléaire dans des conditions sûres, respectueuses de l’environnement et économiques, constitue un dé...

Many countries are dealing with challenges stemming from nuclear and radiological legacy sites. In particular, managing these sites in an open and transparent fashion while taking into account the vi...

Radioactive waste results from many different activities in health care, industry, research, and power production. All such waste must be managed safely, with the protection of human health and the e...

Radioactive waste repositories are designed to isolate waste from the living environment without human intervention over extended periods of time. Nevertheless, the intention is not to abandon the re...

DOI: 10.1787/g2gh1bd5-en

This study constitutes an initial analysis, at an international level, of the institutional aspects of the long-term management of radioactive waste and may be added to the n...

Nuclear Energy Data is the Nuclear Energy Agency’s annual compilation of statistics and country reports documenting nuclear power status in NEA member countries and in the OECD area. Information prov...

自1992年以来，职业照射信息系统（ISOE）为来自全世界核动力行业和国家监管当局的辐射防护专家们提供了一个讨论、促进和协调有关核动力厂工作人员辐射防护的国际合作事业的探讨的平台。ISOE的目标是通过互相交流职业辐射防护最优化方法的相关信息、数据和经验，改善核动力厂的职业照射管理。 这个关于工作管理的最新报告为工作管理原则的应用提供了实际的指导，有助于职业辐射防护的最优化。该报告指出，当工作管理...

An Extended Summary of the Collaborative International Evaluated Library Organisation (CIELO) Pilot Project

Current knowledge of the nuclear physics of fuels and materials provides an understanding a...

The nuclear sector has in recent years been placing increasing attention on the need to better understand variations between cost estimates for the decommissioning of nuclear power plants, as well as...

The United Kingdom has become the latest country to join the NEA Nuclear Education, Skills and Technology (NEST) Framework, alongside 13 other countries that are co-operating to train the next genera...

DOI: 10.1787/g2gh1c14-en

DOI: 10.1787/g2gh1bf2-en

The THICKET-5 seminar was given by the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations.

DOI: 10.1787/9789264173385-en

ISBN-13: 9789264173385, 9789264170506

Workshop Proceedings, Paris, France, 28-30 September 1998

Following recent disarmament agreements, the Russian Federation and the US...

DOI: 10.1787/9789264173743-en

ISBN-13: 9789264173743, 9789264170643

Environmental activities in uranium mining and milling are becoming increasingly important owing to:

- the stricter requirements fo...

The NEA held a third and final preparatory webinar on 7 May 2025 in advance of its Fourth Stakeholder Involvement Workshop on Optimisation in Decision-Making: From Insight to Action, which will take ...

This report addresses the increasingly important interactions of variable renewables and dispatchable energy technologies, such as nuclear power, in terms of their effects on electricity systems. The...

The next edition of Roadmaps to New Nuclear will be co-hosted by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) of Korea.

Published every year, the NEA Annual Report includes an overview of NEA's activities and publications produced during the year, as well as the latest developments in nuclear energy sector around the ...

Published every year, the NEA Annual report includes an overview of NEA's activities and publications produced during the year, as well as the latest developments in nuclear energy sector around the ...

Published every year, the NEA Annual report includes an overview of NEA's activities and publications produced during the year, as well as the latest developments in nuclear energy sector around the ...

The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has launched the fourth phase of the Advanced Thermal-Hydraulic Test Loop for Accident Simulation (ATLAS) project, continuing its mission to address critical thermal-h...