Throughout 2024, WENRA has been celebrating its 25th anniversary. At the fall plenary meeting held in Warsaw, Poland, we asked members what WENRA means to them, the importance of the role it has played over the past 25 years, and the challenges ahead. Watch what they shared on YouTube

The Western European Nuclear Regulators’ Association (WENRA) came together for its Plenary meeting on 7th - 8th November, hosted by the Polish National Atomic Energy Agency (PAA), in Warsaw, Poland. WENRA members work as a collective group of national nuclear regulators to continuously improve and harmonise nuclear safety to as high as reasonably practicable levels.

On 14th and 15th November 2023, WENRA held its regular biannual plenary meeting in Paris.

In 2010, WENRA issued safety objectives for new nuclear power plants (NPPs). These objectives were developed on the basis of a systematic review of the Fundamental Safety Principles (SF1 document issued in 2006 by the IAEA) and formulated in a qualitative rather than quantitative manner.

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WENRA is today re-publishing revised versions of two of its reports covering its Safety Reference Levels (SRLs) for Waste Storage and for Decommissioning. These reports were last published in 2014 and 2015 respectively and the new versions provide updates on the benchmarking of the national regulatory frameworks of 18 WENRA members that has been carried out since the previous reports.

The WENRA Terms of Reference (ToR) were updated at the November 2023 plenary meeting held in Paris.

At its November 2023 plenary meeting held in Paris, WENRA approved its new strategy.

In 2014 WENRA published the revised Safety Reference Levels (SRLs) as the result of a review in light of the learning from the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi NPP accident. The first task for WENRA countries was to implement the new SRLs into their national regulations. Following this WENRA’s Reactor Harmonization Working Group (RHWG) started to discuss options for a benchmarking process on the implementation of SRLs at the Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs).