Ways to strengthen animal disease diagnosis capabilities in Africa and Asia were in focus at the IAEA earlier this month. Improving laboratories’ proficiency in rapid detection, enhancing quality control, and sharing and verifying standard operating pr... Continue reading →

IAEA safeguards play an indispensable role in preventing the spread of nuclear weapons by ensuring that nuclear material remains in peaceful use. Continue reading →

The drinking water of this city of 250,000 is safe, is getting regularly recharged and is not under threat by the sea. Continue reading →

Minerals, ores and other raw materials are mined and processed in many countries. Some may contain naturally occurring radioactive material, known as NORM. Physical and chemical processing can increase the concentration of NORM. Continue reading →

Cardiovascular diseases are the number one cause of death globally. Women are particularly at risk of premature death by heart disease. The IAEA supports Member States like Cuba by training health staff and providing medical equipment to diagnose this ... Continue reading →

The IAEA has launched a comprehensive, online interactive and integrated digital map of the world’s uranium distribution and deposits. This second edition of World Distribution of Uranium Deposits was developed with contributions from the Saskatchewan ... Continue reading →

Physicist Francis Perrin sat at a nuclearfuel-processing plant down in the south of France, thinking to himself: “This cannot be possible.” It was 1972. On the one hand, there was a dark piece of radioactive natural uranium ore, extracted from a mine i... Continue reading →

When it comes to climate change, the islands of the Caribbean are particularly under threat. Representatives from ten Caribbean countries are at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna to discuss the use of nuclear science and technology in dealing with this p... Continue reading →