In his opening statement to the IAEA’s Board of Governors today, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi spoke of the importance of food security in a world where hunger is on the rise, and in many cases is worsening due to climate change. Continue reading →

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) is transitioning its reactor unit 5 to cold from hot shutdown and intends to determine the cause of boron detected in a cooling circuit, still leaving one of the plant’s six reactors in hot shutdown to ... Continue reading →

Experts met at the IAEA's Vienna headquarters to discuss the benefits and challenges of floating nuclear power plants, and role they could play in the fight against climate change.   Continue reading →

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts said the Philippines is committed to the safe operation of the Philippine Research Reactor-1 (PRR-1) Subcritical Assembly for Training, Education and Research (SATER) facility, following comp... Continue reading →

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts last week completed a review of long term operational safety at the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Sweden. Continue reading →

A reactor unit of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) temporarily lost power earlier this week, forcing it to rely on an emergency diesel generator for the electricity it needs for cooling and other vital functions, Director General Rafae... Continue reading →

The IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi met President Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Thursday, after laying a foundation stone of the country’s first public radiotherapy centre. Continue reading →

The importance of national and international nuclear law was underscored in recent remarks by the IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, as countries increasingly plan to adopt or expand nuclear energy to their energy grids to meet the growing ch... Continue reading →