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01 Sept 2022 |
Maximising Uranium Mining’s Social and Economic Benefits
The transformative activity of mining has numerous economic, social and environmental impacts that can be both positive and adverse for communities, ecosystems and economies. As the uranium industry begins to address negative perceptions and legacies... |
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06 Jul 2022 |
Beyond Electricity
Nuclear energy is an important source of low-carbon electricity and thus plays a significant role in avoiding carbon emissions. It has the potential to decarbonise the global energy sector even further by also providing heat for industrial... |
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16 Jun 2022 |
High-temperature Gas-cooled Reactors and Industrial Heat Applications
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 requirements for heat in addition to power.... |
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02 Dec 2021 |
Advanced Nuclear Reactor Systems and Future Energy Market Needs
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 sources, storage technologies and demand-side... |
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01 Dec 2021 |
Technical and Economic Aspects of Load Following with Nuclear Power Plants
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 frequency regulation for grid stability purposes and... |
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26 Nov 2021 |
Climate Change
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 waves and droughts – have already affected the... |
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29 Jul 2021 |
Long-Term Operation of Nuclear Power Plants and Decarbonisation Strategies
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 30% of reactors worldwide were already operating... |
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07 Jul 2021 |
Ensuring the Adequacy of Funding Arrangements for Decommissioning and Radioactive Waste Management
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 radioactive waste management (RMW) thus increasingly... |
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07 Apr 2021 |
Small Modular Reactors
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 MWe and 300 MWe that incorporate by design higher... |
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11 Mar 2021 |
Strategies and Considerations for the Back End of the Fuel Cycle
A wealth of technical information exists on nuclear fuel cycle options – combinations of nuclear fuel types, reactor types, used or spent nuclear fuel (SNF) treatments, and disposal schemes – and most countries with active nuclear power programmes... |
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10 May 2017 |
Impacts of the Fukushima Daiichi Accident on Nuclear Development Policies
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident has had an impact on the development of nuclear power around the world. While the accident was followed by thorough technical assessments of the safety of all operating nuclear power plants, and a... |
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26 Oct 2016 |
Small Modular Reactors
Recent interest in small modular reactors (SMRs) is being driven by a desire to reduce the total capital costs associated with nuclear power plants and to provide power to small grid systems. According to estimates available today, if all the... |
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04 Apr 2016 |
Costs of Decommissioning Nuclear Power Plants
While refurbishments for the long-term operation of nuclear power plants and for the lifetime extension of such plants have been widely pursued in recent years, the number of plants to be decommissioned is nonetheless expected to increase in future,... |
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10 Aug 2015 |
Nuclear New Build
Nuclear new build has been progressing steadily since the year 2000, with the construction of 94 new reactors initiated and 56 completed reactors connected to the grid. |
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20 Jun 2014 |
Managing Environmental and Health Impacts of Uranium Mining
This report highlights the importance of mine workers being properly trained and well equipped, as well as that of ensuring that their work environment is well ventilated so as to curtail exposure to radiation. |
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07 Jan 2014 |
The Economics of the Back End of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
This report offers an appraisal of economic issues and methodologies for the management of spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste from commercial power reactors. |
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23 Sept 2013 |
Nuclear Energy Today (Second Edition)
This book provides an up-to-date assessment of the safety, competitiveness, and sustainability of nuclear energy today. |
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19 Dec 2012 |
The Economics of Long-term Operation of Nuclear Power Plants
This study analyses technical and economic data on the upgrade and lifetime extension experience of nuclear power plants in OECD countries. |
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18 Dec 2012 |
The Supply of Medical Radioisotopes
The reliable supply of molybdenum-99 (99Mo) and its decay product, technetium-99m (99mTc), is a vital component of modern medical diagnostic practices. At present, most of the global production of 99Mo is from highly enriched uranium (HEU) targets ... |
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18 Jun 2012 |
The Role of Nuclear Energy in a Low-carbon Energy Future
This report assesses the role that nuclear energy can play in supporting the transition to a low-carbon energy system. |
Nuclear Development
Agence pour l'Energie Nucléaire
A series of publications from the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency on various aspects of nuclear development. The publications in this series provide authoritative, reliable information on nuclear technologies, economics, strategies and resources to governments for use in policy analyses and decision making.
Anglais Egalement disponible en : Français
- ISSN : 1990066X (en ligne)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/1990066x
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Maximising Uranium Mining’s Social and Economic Benefits
OCDE et Agence pour l'énergie nucléaire
01 Sept 2022
The transformative activity of mining has numerous economic, social and environmental impacts that can be both positive and adverse for communities, ecosystems and economies. As the uranium industry begins to address negative perceptions and legacies...
Beyond Electricity
OCDE et Agence pour l'énergie nucléaire
06 Jul 2022
Nuclear energy is an important source of low-carbon electricity and thus plays a significant role in avoiding carbon emissions. It has the potential to decarbonise the global energy sector even further by also providing heat for industrial...
High-temperature Gas-cooled Reactors and Industrial Heat Applications
OCDE et Agence pour l'énergie nucléaire
16 Jun 2022
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 requirements for heat in addition to power....
Advanced Nuclear Reactor Systems and Future Energy Market Needs
OCDE et Agence pour l'énergie nucléaire
02 Dec 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 sources, storage technologies and demand-side...
Technical and Economic Aspects of Load Following with Nuclear Power Plants
OCDE et Agence pour l'énergie nucléaire
01 Dec 2021
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 frequency regulation for grid stability purposes and...
Climate Change
OCDE et Agence pour l'énergie nucléaire
26 Nov 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 waves and droughts – have already affected the...
Long-Term Operation of Nuclear Power Plants and Decarbonisation Strategies
OCDE et Agence pour l'énergie nucléaire
29 Jul 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 30% of reactors worldwide were already operating...
Ensuring the Adequacy of Funding Arrangements for Decommissioning and Radioactive Waste Management
OCDE et Agence pour l'énergie nucléaire
07 Jul 2021
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 radioactive waste management (RMW) thus increasingly...
Small Modular Reactors
OCDE et Agence pour l'énergie nucléaire
07 Apr 2021
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 MWe and 300 MWe that incorporate by design higher...
Strategies and Considerations for the Back End of the Fuel Cycle
OCDE et Agence pour l'énergie nucléaire
11 Mar 2021
A wealth of technical information exists on nuclear fuel cycle options – combinations of nuclear fuel types, reactor types, used or spent nuclear fuel (SNF) treatments, and disposal schemes – and most countries with active nuclear power programmes...
Impacts of the Fukushima Daiichi Accident on Nuclear Development Policies
Agence pour l'énergie nucléaire
10 May 2017
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident has had an impact on the development of nuclear power around the world. While the accident was followed by thorough technical assessments of the safety of all operating nuclear power plants, and a...
Small Modular Reactors
Agence pour l'énergie nucléaire et OCDE
26 Oct 2016
Recent interest in small modular reactors (SMRs) is being driven by a desire to reduce the total capital costs associated with nuclear power plants and to provide power to small grid systems. According to estimates available today, if all the...
Costs of Decommissioning Nuclear Power Plants
Agence pour l'énergie nucléaire et OCDE
04 Apr 2016
While refurbishments for the long-term operation of nuclear power plants and for the lifetime extension of such plants have been widely pursued in recent years, the number of plants to be decommissioned is nonetheless expected to increase in future,...
Nuclear New Build
Agence pour l'énergie nucléaire et OCDE
10 Aug 2015
Nuclear new build has been progressing steadily since the year 2000, with the construction of 94 new reactors initiated and 56 completed reactors connected to the grid.
Managing Environmental and Health Impacts of Uranium Mining
OCDE
20 Jun 2014
This report highlights the importance of mine workers being properly trained and well equipped, as well as that of ensuring that their work environment is well ventilated so as to curtail exposure to radiation.
The Economics of the Back End of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
OCDE
07 Jan 2014
This report offers an appraisal of economic issues and methodologies for the management of spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste from commercial power reactors.
Nuclear Energy Today (Second Edition)
OCDE et Agence pour l'énergie nucléaire
23 Sept 2013
This book provides an up-to-date assessment of the safety, competitiveness, and sustainability of nuclear energy today.
The Economics of Long-term Operation of Nuclear Power Plants
OCDE et Agence pour l'énergie nucléaire
19 Dec 2012
This study analyses technical and economic data on the upgrade and lifetime extension experience of nuclear power plants in OECD countries.
The Supply of Medical Radioisotopes
OCDE
18 Dec 2012
The reliable supply of molybdenum-99 (99Mo) and its decay product, technetium-99m (99mTc), is a vital component of modern medical diagnostic practices. At present, most of the global production of 99Mo is from highly enriched uranium (HEU) targets ...
The Role of Nuclear Energy in a Low-carbon Energy Future
OCDE
18 Jun 2012
This report assesses the role that nuclear energy can play in supporting the transition to a low-carbon energy system.