Now Available: E-Learning Course on IAEA Safety Standards in Six Languages
The IAEA has developed an e-learning course providing an overview of the Agency’s Safety Standards, which is now available in all official languages of the UN — Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. Continue reading
Pioneering Radon Research in Cameroon Decreases Risks of Lung Cancer
When Bobbo Hamadou gets up in the morning, he opens the door and window in his house. This is not just to air out his mattress – but to lower the concentration of radon in his home. Continue reading
Nuclear Proliferation and the IAEA’s Indispensable Job Bolstering International Security in a Changed World: IAEA Director General Delivers 2022 John Gee Memorial Lecture
The future of IAEA safeguards and the future of global security was the topic of a lecture given today by IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University. Continue reading
Deploying Nuclear Technologies to Preserve and Protect Malta’s Millennia-Old Heritage
Experts at Malta’s national cultural preservation agency are now using a nuclear technique to characterize pigments, pottery, mortars and other centuries-old materials as part of their conservation efforts to preserve the relics and artifacts that make... Continue reading
IAEA Initiative Sets Ambitious Goals to Support the Safe and Secure Deployment of SMRs
Enhanced harmonization of regulatory activities and the standardization of industrial approaches are expected as the outcome of a new IAEA initiative, which kicked off in June. Continue reading
Jamaica Opens Its First Public Nuclear Medicine Centre with IAEA Support
A new nuclear medicine centre that will provide life-saving diagnosis and treatment of non-communicable diseases has opened in Jamaica, with the support of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) under its Rays of Hope initiative launched earlier... Continue reading
Update 85 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Ukrainian operator of the country’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) have restored the remote transmission of safeguards data from the facility after a week-long interruption, Director Genera... Continue reading
Infographic: What Makes Nuclear Energy Safe?
Learn how nuclear compares to other sources of energy in terms of safety and about the mechanisms in place to make nuclear energy safe. Continue reading

