GIF carries out its mission through its Generation IV technology specific System Steering Committees and works on cross cutting and methodological matters through its Working Groups and Task Forces.
Get an overview of how Gen IV Nuclear Energy Systems are defined, what are the Generation IV criteria, which Nuclear Reactors Technologies were selected as capable of meeting those criteria and how this relates to the GIF Technology Roadmap (and its revisions).
Generation IV International Forum (GIF) was created as a co-operative international endeavour seeking to develop the research necessary to test the feasibility and performance of fourth generation nuclear systems, and to make them available for industrial deployment by 2030. Learn more about its governing agreements and structure here.
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Learn more about the Generation IV International Forum, its organisation, its members, its projects.
DISCLAIMER: The entry into force of the 2025 GIF Framework Agreement on 1st March 2025 brings changes to the GIF membership. The website will be updated in due course to reflect these changes.
Since its inception in 2001 the Generation IV has been coordinating and implementing a broad range of activities aimed at fostering international cooperation to advance the development and deployment of Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems. The core of GIF activities is carried out by its System Steering Committees and its Working Groups and Task Forces. The main focus of GIF was defined in the GIF Charter:
The general framework for GIF activities and its organisational structure have been outlined in the founding agreements of the GIF and are then detailed in the policy statements by the GIF Policy Group.
GIF is initially a Research and Development (R&D) cooperation plateform driven by members states and their national laboratories.
