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...

The NEA hosted an online expert roundtable discussion on 24 June 2021 on safety case projects of three different types of disposal facilities in member countries.

EXPERT ROUNDTABLE: Progress in HLW management and the sustainability of nuclear energy, 12 November 2020

The Integration Group for the Safety Case (IGSC) provides advice to the Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) on major and emerging issues to facilitate the development of waste management st...

The Nuclear Energy Agency carried out an independent peer review of Japan’s siting process and criteria for the geological disposal of high-level radioactive waste in May 2016. The review concluded t...

NEA Salt Club meeting, 11-12 May 2021.

The Crystalline Club held its first technical workshop focusing on “Research Methods and Modern Measuring Equipment Used for Site and Rock Characterisation”, with three sessions held on 11, 18 and 25...

NEA Working Party on Deep Geological Repositories and Nuclear Liability (WPDGR) meeting, 25-26 June 2020.

Specific ion interaction theory (SIT) coefficients now included in the TDB e-database

The main objective of the Salt Club is to make the current knowledge base on rock salt more readily available to member countries, particularly those countries with adequate rock salt deposits to hos...