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• NEA News Volume 27 now available
• Nuclear science

  The third meeting of the NEA Nuclear Science Committee Working Party on Multi-scale Modelling of Fuels and Structural Materials for Nuclear Systems (WPMM) was held at the NEA. It was decided that the work be divided into the following five areas:

  • multi-scale modelling methods;
  • multi-scale modelling of fuels;
  • structural materials modelling;
  • validation and benchmarking; and
  • primary radiation damage.

   

  Each area of work will be managed by an expert group comprised of experts from member countries. The working party will also organise specific sessions at different workshops, for example at the International Workshop on Materials Models and Simulations for Nuclear Fuels (MMSNF) in the United States in 2009 and at the Nuclear Materials Congress (NMC-2010) in Germany in 2010.

• Radioactive waste management

  The Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) held its seventh workshop in the eastern French region currently hosting the Bure underground laboratory (created by French law to pursue research on a geological disposal solution for the management of high-level and long-lived radioactive wastes). In 2006 Parliament approved the principle of constructing a reversible radioactive waste repository, if authorised, in 2025. The FSC workshop, entitled “Repository Project and Territories”, brought together diverse potential host communities to exchange views with international delegates on the issues raised by such a project.

  Following a session reviewing historical developments and the framework of the French national programme for the final management of long-lived, high- and medium-level radioactive waste, three themes were explored in more detail: local information; reversibility; environmental monitoring and memory of a long-term installation. 

  The NEA will publish the proceedings of the workshop which will serve to benchmark best practices and to archive history and progress to date. FSC flyers and publications, including the proceedings of this event and the workshop programme, are available at this link.

• NEA Annual Report 2008
  NEA Annual Report 2008 just published. Read more and download the report here.
• Nuclear energy in the 21st century: safe, clean and affordable
  At the International Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century, which opened today in Beijing, China, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría highlighted that “Clean and affordable energy, including access to safe and secure nuclear power, should be a central element of our efforts… not only for a sustainable economy, but also for the future of our planet.”

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