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...
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12 December 2021
The joint NEA/IAEA Uranium Group held its 57th meeting virtually on 3-5 November 2021.
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12 December 2021
In co-operation with the Nuclear and Radioactive Waste Agency of Romania the NEA organised a mentoring session with Romanian high school students.
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10 December 2021
The task group met virtually for the fourth high-level NEA meeting on improving gender balance.
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8 December 2021
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.
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8 December 2021
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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6 December 2021
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.
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6 December 2021
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...
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2 December 2021
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?...
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30 November 2021
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.
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29 November 2021
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.
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8 November 2021
The NEA held its 142nd Steering Committee meeting in October 2021.
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4 November 2021
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.
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4 November 2021
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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4 November 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.
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3 November 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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3 November 2021
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 ...
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3 November 2021
NEA Working Group on Human and Organisational Factors (WGHOF) held its biannual meeting on 25-26 October 2021.
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3 November 2021
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...
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3 November 2021
MDEP VVER Working Group (VVERWG) meeting, 25-26 May 2021.
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3 November 2021
Contracting Parties to the Paris Convention meeting, 28 October 2021.
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3 November 2021
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...
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2 November 2021
The NEA spoke with Professor Okamoto, who leads the NEST ARTERD project on the NEST Framework and its objectives.
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2 November 2021
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...
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31 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...
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29 October 2021
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.
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27 October 2021
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...
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27 October 2021
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 ...
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25 October 2021
ICSBEP, SINBAD AND IRPhEP Technical Review Group meetings, October 2021.
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25 October 2021
NEA Forum on Stakeholder Confidence held its annual plenary meeting on 12-14 October 2021.
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19 October 2021
Building on the discussions held in March and June 2021, the INEX-6 Preparatory Task Force met on 13 September 2021.
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5 October 2021
Insights from the NEST Framework: A chat with Lea Zimmermann, NEST Fellow
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5 October 2021
NEA Working Party on Information, Data and Knowledge Management (WP‑IDKM) held a topical session on IDKM timescales on 1-2 September 2021 towards building a common understanding of the timescales inv...
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5 October 2021
The NEA Expert Group on the Dose limit for the Lens of the Eye (EGDLE) met on 24 September 2021.
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4 October 2021
The FSC recently established a new group, Stakeholder Involvement in Decommissioning and Legacy Management (SIDLM), in response to member country needs regarding the methods and best practices to eng...
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4 October 2021
The NEA Working Group on the Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) held its annual meeting virtually on 13-15 September 2021 to discuss its ongoing work and activities related to potential acc...
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1 October 2021
The NEA and Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) co-organised an online International Workshop on Joint Utilisation of Underground Research Laboratories in Research. The event was h...
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28 September 2021
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...
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28 September 2021
Seismic probabilistic safety assessment (SPSA) is a systematic method for examining and evaluating the risk from earthquake-initiated accidents. The significant advances in the area of SPSA since the...
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27 September 2021
This report highlights the potential role of nuclear in contributing to the circular carbon economy as a low-carbon source of electricity, but also as a source of heat and system integration services...
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23 September 2021
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...
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8 September 2021
The NEA recently concluded the 2021 edition of the International School of Nuclear Law (ISNL), which was from 23 August to 3 September 2021.
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8 September 2021
Insights from the NEST Framework: A chat with Larissa Shasko, PhD student and NEST Fellow.
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6 September 2021
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...
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2 September 2021
The third session of the IRPS was held on 23-27 August 2021 with 37 participants from 20 countries and 3 international organisations.
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2 September 2021
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) hosted an expert roundtable discussion on 29 July 2021 to present and discuss findings from a new report on the role of nuclear long-term operation (LTO) in decarbonis...
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5 August 2021
A chat with Stephen King, PhD student and NEST Fellow.
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5 August 2021
“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...
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4 August 2021
Nearly 100 experts from the NEA Analysis of Information from Reactor Buildings and Containment Vessels of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (ARC-F) Project and the Preparatory Study on Fuel Deb...
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3 August 2021
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 ...
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29 July 2021