International joint projects on nuclear safety: 30 years of benefits

The NEA has an acknowledged role to assist its member countries in maintaining and further developing, through international co-operation, the scientific, technological and legal bases required for a safe, environmentally friendly and economical use of nuclear energy. The NEA standing technical committees (STCs) are actively engaged in the generation of knowledge (for example through workshops, state-of-the-art reports, international standard problems and joint projects) and the exchanges among members of the committees and their working groups are excellent sources of tacit knowledge and communities of good practice. The NEA committees have generated significant technical and scientific information that is of value to the regulators and the developers of nuclear technology.