According to the direction of its disciplinary development, characteristics of scientific research and demand for talent cultivation, DEP continues to expand and strengthen Students exchanges and scientific research cooperation with universities and institutes at home and abroad. It has established bilateral relationships of exchanges and collaboration with more than 50 units in recent years. Meanwhile, leveraged on the Academic Forum and Salon in DEP, the department actively develops academic exchanges and cooperation, as well as encourages the academic atmosphere.

In recent years, DEP has signed agreements and memoranda of talent cultivation and scientific research collaboration with nearly twenty domestic units including Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine, Navy General Hospital, Nuclear and Radiation Safety Center of Ministry of Environmental Protection, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics of China Academy of Sciences, Nuclear Engineering Department of the Second Artillery Engineering University, School of Physics and Engineering of Sun Yat-sen University, College of National Defense Technology of University of South China. The agreements have covered fields including nuclear disciplinary construction, nuclear science and technology research, personnel training and laboratory construction.

DEP has not only made significant progress with domestic exchanges and collaboration, but also internationally as well. DEP has hosted or co-hosted a variety of international conferences on nearly 40 occasions during the last decade. More teachers and students have attended international conferences to present the scientific research results of the department and to absorb and contribute to the very latest in international discourse on science and technology progress, resulting in more opportunities for collaboration. In addition, faculty members actively invite internationally renowned experts to visit, give lectures, and discuss forefront issues on science and technology. In this decade so far, the number of visiting experts has reached over 500, and more than 1000 teachers and postgraduates have visited, given lectures and attended international academic meetings. Nearly 40 agreements and memoranda have been signed on talent cultivation and scientific research collaboration.

DEP is the active encouragement and development of overseas student exchange programs. In recent years, DEP has taken various measures to collaborate actively with overseas universities in terms of faculty exchanges, learning exchanges and bilingual teaching. By way of the student exchange program, students can benefit from professional learning from more than 60 partner universities in over 10 countries and regions including America, Canada, Britain, Germany, France, Australia and South Korea. Participating universities includes Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, California Institute of Technology, Harvard University, University of British Columbia, Royal Institute of Technology, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Technische Universitaet München, the University of Manchester, National University of Singapore, The Australian National University, University of Melbourne, Seoul National University, The University of Hong Kong and National Tsing Hua University.