Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) suffered a complete loss of external power for 11 hours today, forcing it to rely on emergency diesel generators for reactor cooling and other essential nuclear safety and security functions in the late... Continue reading →

Twelve countries have this week jointly pledged a total of 5.5 million Euro towards ReNuAL2, an IAEA project to upgrade the Agency’s nuclear applications laboratories in Seibersdorf, Austria. Continue reading →

Before we start this agenda item I want to report that this morning at around 5am local-time Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant lost all off-site power when its last remaining 750 kilovolt line was disconnected, its only remaining back up 330 kilovolt li... Continue reading →

In celebration of International Women’s Day 2023, IAEA Director General Grossi launched today the “IAEA Lise Meitner Programme” (LMP). Continue reading →

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts this week said Belgium had strengthened safety at its BR2 research reactor — a large producer of medical isotopes — by improving training, maintenance, ageing management and the safety of exp... Continue reading →

The devastating impact of COVID-19 across economies has highlighted the need to build back more sustainably, and nuclear science and technology are valuable tools to help achieve this, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi told world leaders at t... Continue reading →

Agreement with the Islamic Republic of Iran for the IAEA to proceed with further monitoring and verification measures is indispensable to the Agency fulfilling its mission, a writ Continue reading →

Authors interested in presenting a contributed paper at the 29th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2023) have until 16 March 2023 to submit a two-page synopses here. Continue reading →