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IAEA Finds Progress in Waste Management in Germany, Encourages Actions for Improved Cost Assessment

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts said Germany demonstrated commitment to continued development of its national radioactive waste management (RWM) programme since a Continue reading

Nuclear Science Helps Bangladeshi Farmers Resist Climate Change

Over the past two decades, Bangladesh, with its low-lying river delta and lengthy coastline, has been listed among the top ten countries most affected by climate change, according to the Global Clim Continue reading

Update 127 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine

Ukraine's Khmelnytskyy Nuclear Power Plant (KhNPP) lost all access to the electricity grid yesterday due to military attacks in the country, forcing it to temporarily rely on diesel generators for back-up power, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi o... Continue reading

IAEA Director General Briefs Board of Governors: COP27, Ukraine and Iran

The IAEA’s presence at the United Nations climate change conference, COP27, as well as the ongoing situation in Ukraine, and verification and monitoring in Iran, were the focus of Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi’s address to the Agency’s Board o... Continue reading

Update 126 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will in the coming weeks send nuclear safety and security missions to three operating nuclear power plants in Ukraine as well as to the country’s Chornobyl site, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said ... Continue reading

Ensuring Access to Water in the Face of Glacier Retreat: #Atoms4Climate Event at COP27

Approximately one-tenth of the earth’s landmass is covered in glaciers or other forms of permanent ice, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Continue reading

Update 125 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has this week carried out a joint safeguards and nuclear security expert mission to a nuclear research facility in Ukraine’s north-eastern city of Kharkiv and found it had been heavily damaged by shelling d... Continue reading

COP27: Leading IPCC Scientist Joins Clean Energy Advocates in Calling for Nuclear for Net Zero

With rising emissions threatening to tip the world into catastrophic climate change, a leading IPCC scientist joined clean energy advocates at the UN Climate Change Conference to call for more creative, evidence-based outreach around the world to drive... Continue reading