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IAEA Support and Assistance Mission Sets Out to Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine

We must protect the safety and security of Ukraine’s and Europe’s biggest nuclear facility, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said this morning as he and a team of IAEA experts and inspectors set off from the Agency’s headquarters in Vienna f... Continue reading

French President Macron Reiterates Support for IAEA Mission to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant

IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi met with President Emmanuel Macron yesterday in Paris, in an important step to the IAEA’s imminent mission to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant. President Macron, who reiterated his support of the IA... Continue reading

Update 94 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine

Ukraine has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that the country’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) today temporarily lost connection to its last remaining operational 750 kilovolt (kV) external power line, Director General Ra... Continue reading

After 34-Year Gap, the Philippines has a Nuclear Facility Again

After more than three decades, the Philippines is again operating a nuclear facility. Continue reading

IAEA Competition: Innovative Data Visualization of Operating Nuclear Power Plants

The IAEA is inviting students and early career professionals in fields relating to the operation of nuclear power plants to take part in its competition for innovative and original data visualizations that can help enhance plant life management. Continue reading

IAEA Conference on Applying Radiation Science and Technology in Everyday Life Begins

Determining the presence of microplastic in environmental samples, removing pesticides from agricultural soil and studying how to grow tomatoes in outer space are all possible thanks to radiation techniques. Continue reading

Update 92 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine

The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, today renewed his urgent appeal for maximum military restraint in the area of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) following new signs of rising t... Continue reading

What are Isotopes?

Like everything we see in the world, isotopes are a type of atom, the smallest unit of matter that retains all the chemical properties of an element. Isotopes are forms of a chemical element with specific properties. Continue reading