Third International Conference on Nuclear Knowledge Management - Challenges and Approaches

OECD/NEA Data Bank Activities on Nuclear Knowledge Preservation and Management

10 Nov 2016, 10:00

15m

BoardRoom B/M1 (IAEA M-Building)

oral Track 8: Issues and approaches for information, records and data management Technical Session 14

Speaker

Mr Juan Manuel Galan (Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD NEA), Paris, France)

Description

The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) operates as a special agency of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an intergovernmental body based in Paris. The main objective of the NEA is 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 for peaceful purposes. The NEA Data Bank, created in 1978 by the fusion of the Neutron Data Compilation Centre and the Computer Program Library, deals more specifically with nuclear data and computer programs covering the whole nuclear fuel cycle and some non-energy applications. The objectives of the Data Bank are to “act as an international centre of reference for its Member countries with respect to basic nuclear tools, such as computer codes and nuclear data, used for the analysis and prediction of phenomena in the nuclear field, and to provide a direct service to its users by developing, improving and validating these tools and making them available as requested”.