This Department is responsible for formulating and delivering the IAEA’s development mandate. The Agency’s technical cooperation with Member States aims to promote tangible socioeconomic impacts, ...

The Additional Protocol is not a stand-alone agreement, but rather a protocol to a safeguards agreement that provides additional tools for verification. In particular, it significantly increases the ...

» What is meant by radiation “dose” of X rays? Radiation dose is a measure of how much energy is absorbed when something or someone is exposed to X-rays. This is important because it is this ...

The Fukushima Daiichi Accident consists of a Report by the IAEA Director General and five technical volumes. It is the result of an extensive international collaborative effort involving five working ...

Nuclear power plants are built to last. But as the prospect of extreme global events grows — from natural disasters and intensifying climate change-driven weather patterns that could affect a plant, ...

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In his opening statement to the IAEAs Board of Governors today, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said Iran’s nuclear programme remained at the centre of IAEA efforts. Mr Grossi said he had been ...

Uranium is a naturally occurring radioactive element, which has the atomic number of 92 and corresponds to the chemical symbol U in the periodic table. It belongs to a special group of elements called ...

If you have ever had a PET scan at a hospital or heard about radiation treatment for cancer or brain tumours, there's a good chance a cyclotron was involved. But what is a cyclotron and how is it used ...

Achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 is a daunting challenge, and will require a significant expansion of clean energy sources, including nuclear power. In the short term, the bulk of nuclear ...

The Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) temporarily lost all off-site power twice this week after its last remaining off-site power line was disconnected. “The repeated losses of external power ...