[en] The Dutch Coordination-Committee for Measurements of Radioactivity and Xenobiotic materials (CCRX) coordinates systematic measuring programmes of the government departments and institutes which are, dependent of the responsibilities of the departments under which they report, directed upon various compartments of the environment: air, surface waters, soil, vegetable and animal food, and in some cases man, in order to achieve an appropriate monitoring of artificial radioactivity and the presence of xenobiotic materials in the (Dutch) biologic environment. In this report the National Measuring Programmes (NMP) radioactivity and Xenobiotic materials of the CCRX are outlined and the most important conclusions with regard to the situation of the environment, drawn from the measurements performed in the framework of the NMP, are summarized. (H.W.)

[en] The research work of the Institute for Plasma Physics at Rijnhuizen during 1983 is surveyed. The Experimental Division reports on: pinches; turbulent heating in TORTUR, a small tokamak; numerical calculations on cold plasma blankets; electron cyclotron resonance heating; and, diagnostic subsystems. The Theoretical Division reports on: magnetohydrodynamics, wave dynamics and transport problems. Finally, the Department of Technology and Engineering reports on subjects as: high-power engineering, electronic control and computer hardware and software. (Auth.)

[en] This Act is based on and implements in the Netherlands the provisions of the 1962 Brussels Convention on the Liability of Operators of Nuclear Ships. It lays down a series of definitions respectively concerning nuclear ships, nuclear incidents, operators, nuclear fuel, radioactive products and waste, etc. and provides for the absolute and limited liability of the operator for nuclear damage arising from his ship. The Act contains a number of provisions concerning the obligation for the operator to maintain coverage for his liability, State intervention by means of public funds, rights to compensation and the competent court. (NEA)

[en] Similar to wind energy associations (already 20 are active in the Netherlands with a total of 6,000 members) a start is made to found associations by means of which the use of solar energy in the Netherlands can be promoted and stimulated. So far, the Organization for Renewable Energy (ODE, abbreviated in Dutch) assisted in realizing two PV associations: Sunergy in Rijswijk and 'Zonlichtstad' (SunlightCity) in Eindhoven

[en] By this Act the Netherlands approved the 1960 Paris Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy, as well as the Brussels Convention of 1963 Supplementary to that Convention. This Act came into force on 28 December 1979 thus bringing into force on that date the Paris Convention and the Brussels Supplementary Convention in the Netherlands. (NEA)

[en] The text of the Agreement of 5 April 1973, and of the two Protocols thereto, between The Netherlands and the Agency for the application of safeguards with respect to The Netherlands Antilles in connection with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and with Additional Protocol I to the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America is reproduced in this document for the information of all Members. The Agreement and the two Protocols thereto entered into force on 5 June 1975, pursuant to Article 24 of the Agreement and to Article II of each of the Protocols.

[en] The Director General has received a communication dated 8 April 2014 from the Permanent Mission of the Netherlands to the Agency, enclosing the Communiqué of the Nuclear Security Summit 2014, which took place on 24-25 March 2014 in The Hague. The communication and, as requested by the Permanent Mission, the Communiqué are circulated herewith for information

[en] The main objective of this study has been to indicate the principle structures through which much of governmental nuclear policy is formed and to develop a model for the analysis of policy communication networks. The first chapter begins with a general outline of the international development of nuclear energy and gives an impression of the Dutch nuclear energy sector with special emphasis on the institutional aspects. In chapter II the author elaborates on the place of structural analysis in public policy analysis and argues that it is one of the indispensable elements of public policy analysis. Relations are treated in chapter III. Personal interlocks are given special attention because these are interrelated with financial, informational and other dependency relations and have a special communicative function in public policy-making. The different functions of the interlocks are 'translated' in graph theoretical concepts. Chapter IV introduces a method derived from graph analysis to analyse public policy networks. Several structural configurations are distinguished. In the same chapter an outline of the empirical research on the nuclear energy network will be given. In chapters V and VI the nuclear energy network is analysed, and in chapter VII the decision-making concerning some nuclear items is described in a general way. (Auth.)

[en] The Director General has received a communication dated 8 April 2014 from the Permanent Mission of the Netherlands to the Agency, enclosing the Communiqué of the Nuclear Security Summit 2014, which took place on 24-25 March 2014 in The Hague. The communication and, as requested by the Permanent Mission, the Communiqué are circulated herewith for information

[en] An overview of the nuclear industry in the Netherlands is given comprising the companies ECN, Fontijne, Hoogovens Inspection Systems, Institute for Advanced Materials, JRC of CEC, KEMA Nuclear, Nucon and RDM