Nuclear Energy Agency

Nuclear Energy Agency
NEA member countries
Secretariat	Paris, France
Membership	33 member countries
Leaders
• Director-General	William D. Magwood, IV
Establishment	1 February 1958 (as the ENEA)
Website www.oecd-nea.org

The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) is an intergovernmental agency that is organized under the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Originally formed on 1 February 1958 with the name European Nuclear Energy Agency (ENEA)—the United States participated as an Associate Member—the name was changed on 20 April 1972 to its current name after Japan became a member.

The mission 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 the safe, environmentally friendly and economical use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes."^[1]