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Nuclear Energy Agency Online BulletinCovers new material for May 2006:Uranium resources: plenty to sustain growth of nuclear power Uranium resources: plenty to sustain growth of nuclear powerGlobal uranium resources are more than adequate to meet projected requirements, says the latest edition of the recognised world reference on uranium.  Uranium 2005: Resources, Production and Demand, also known as the Red Book, estimates the identified amount of conventional uranium resources which can be mined for less than USD 130/kg, just above the current spot price, to be about 4.7 million tonnes. Based on the 2004 nuclear electricity generation rate this amount is sufficient for 85 years. However, total world uranium resources which could be available at market price are much higher. Based on geological evidence and knowledge of uranium in phosphates, the study estimates that more than 35 million tonnes are available for exploitation. More information is available at www.nea.fr/html/general/press/2006/2006-02.html. New publicationsPublications on sale can be ordered at the OECD bookshop: www.oecd.org/scripts/publications/bookshop/redirect.asp. Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cycles and Radioactive Waste Management Building, Measuring and Improving Public Confidence in the Nuclear Regulator Disposal of Radioactive Waste: Forming a New Approach in Germany Uranium 2005: Resources, Production and Demand Free publications are available at www.nea.fr/html/pub/webpubs/. Paper copies may be requested by sending an e-mail to neapub@nea.fr. French R&D on the Partitioning and Transmutation of Long-lived Radionuclides
Nuclear Power Plant Operating Experiences from the IAEA/NEA Incident Reporting System, 2002-2005 Occupational Exposures at Nuclear Power Plants Research and Development Needs for Current and Future Nuclear Energy Systems Disponible également en français : Nuclear safetyThe third report on nuclear power plant operating experience from the IAEA/NEA Incident Reporting System (IRS), which covers the 2002-2005 period, is now available. The IRS is jointly operated and managed by the NEA and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). This edition highlights the important lessons learnt from a review of the approximately 200 event reports received from participating countries during this period. The proceedings of the NEA workshop on Building, Measuring and Improving Public Confidence in the Nuclear Regulator are now available. Workshop participants identified a number of common principles for the communication of nuclear regulatory decisions that can be recommended to all regulators. The NEA is currently preparing a workshop to examine the transparency of regulatory activities, to be held in 2007 in Japan. Related links Documents from the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) Nuclear scienceThe NEA Working Party on International Nuclear Data Evaluation Co-operation (WPEC) reviewed the status of the major evaluated nuclear data libraries and worldwide progress in nuclear data measurement during its meeting on 4-5 May 2006 at NEA headquarters, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. Four of the working party's subgroups have completed their work and will submit their final reports in autumn 2006. One long-standing subgroup on data formats and processing was discontinued. Two new subgroups were established to examine the following areas: prompt photon production data for fission product nuclei and the processing of covariance data. In addition, data users were encouraged to communicate their data requests to the working party for inclusion in the high priority request list for nuclear data. More information is available at www.nea.fr/html/science/wpec/. The annual meeting of the NEA-administered International Criticality Safety Benchmark Project (ICSBEP) was held on 15-19 May 2006 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Meeting participants reviewed and approved detailed descriptions of criticality experiments for inclusion in the forthcoming ICSBEP handbook. The meeting participants also reviewed 34 revised or new experimental configurations. Most of these were accepted for inclusion in the next issue of the handbook, which will be published on DVD in October 2006. The Database for the International Handbook of Evaluated Criticality Safety Benchmark Experiments (DICE), which is included on the DVD to search the evaluations in the handbook, will be improved and updated to process two new fundamental physics-related experiments. More information is available at www.nea.fr/html/science/wpncs/icsbep/. Data BankNuclear data servicesParticipants in the Joint Evaluated Fission and Fusion File (JEFF) project are invited to suggest modifications to the JEFF nuclear data library using the feedback form now available at www.nea.fr/html/dbdata/jeff3feedback/feedback-31.html. More information is available at www.nea.fr/html/dbdata/projects/nds_jef.html. Computer program servicesA page listing all new programs in the last 12 months can be found at: www.nea.fr/html/dbprog/cpsnew.html. Detailed news concerning the computer program service is available at: www.nea.fr/html/dbprog/Newsletter/Whatsnew.htm.
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