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• Stormy Weather and Energy Myopia

  After receiving flowers and surviving a hail of flash bulbs, new IAEA chief Yukiya Amano officially began his four year term and made a short statement (there’s a video there, too, and Amano speaks in English): "The situation surrounding the Agency is stormy now. We have a lot of difficult challenges, but I would like to do my best. I would like to address the global issues that include non-proliferation... Posted Dec 04 2009, 02:13 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: IAEA, forecast, international atomic energy agency, future, yukiya amano, amano

• "Birth Control for Insects" Using Radiation

  This is certainly an interesting application of using radiation, via Nuclear Street : The Olive Fruit Fly only lays its eggs in olives. It can infest up to 90% of a farmer´s fruit, damaging the crops and the livelihoods of the olive growers and exporters. (Photo: FAO/IAEA). But despite being revered by kings and symbolising peace, this ancient tree is being attacked by Bactrocera oleae, more commonly... Posted Dec 01 2009, 11:20 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: IAEA, Radiation, international atomic energy agency, nuclear science, pests

• A Few Word from Steven Chu

  While President Obama pulled duty in New Orleans the other day, as we reported in the post below, Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu is in Paris speaking to a meeting of the International Energy Agency. You can decide who pulled the better duty. Chu and the energy ministers are all jockeying for position during the run up to Copenhagen. But this Bloomberg article shows him pushing nuclear energy... Posted Oct 16 2009, 05:03 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: DOE, IAEA, Nuclear Energy, Steven Chu, department of energy, paris, international atomic energy agency, copenhagen

• Pennies in the Fuel Bank

  The idea of a fuel bank to control the flow of uranium to countries contemplating domestic nuclear energy production has stumbled a bit. The International Atomic Energy Agency and industrialized nations argue that a multilateral uranium-enrichment center would best meet growing global nuclear energy demand while dissuading nations from building proliferation-prone enrichment plants themselves. But... Posted Jun 23 2009, 11:37 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: IAEA, obama, fuel

• More Than 50 Nations Want to Build Nuclear Plants

  That's according to IAEA's Hans-Holger Rogner : More than 50 nations are in talks with the UN atomic watchdog to build nuclear power plants, a twofold increase over the last four years, a top agency official said in an interview released on Thursday. "The IAEA is talking with 50-60 countries about the construction of nuclear power plants," Hans-Holger Rogner, head of planning and... Posted Apr 17 2009, 10:24 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: IAEA, forecast, new plants

• Spinning Around the Atom

  Here’s a few tidbits of nuclear news to wonder about and inspire awe: The IAEA says that nuclear energy is an unstoppable runaway freight train kind of thing. Well, not precisely : Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yury Sokolov said on Tuesday that the economic crisis would not change the driver for the development of the nuclear power industry. And why not? Sokolov... Posted Apr 15 2009, 04:54 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: IAEA, forecast, Sokolov

• Carbon Reduction and The Dutch Road Froward

  Here’s what the International Energy Agency has to say about carbon reduction ambitions in the Netherlands: The head of the International Energy Agency urged the Dutch government Monday to expand its nuclear power base, but the country's environment minister said that's not in the energy equation for now. Nobuo Tanaka, the IEA executive director, said the Netherlands will find it tough to reach... Posted Feb 03 2009, 04:21 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: IAEA, emissions, Dutch

• Hat in Hand? The IAEA Talks Money Woes

  If everything is timing, now was not the right time for the International Atomic Energy Agency to start a fundraising effort: The International Atomic Energy Agency chief urged 145 member states on Monday to come to grips with an IAEA funding crisis undermining its ability to prevent nuclear proliferation threats. Opening the IAEA's annual assembly, Mohamed ElBaradei called for urgent steps to... Posted Sep 30 2008, 03:30 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: IAEA

• IAEA: Nuclear Power Worldwide Could Double by 2030

  According to report from the IAEA. Per Reuters , Nuclear power production could as much as double by 2030 as countries seek relief from rising fossil fuel costs and a remedy against global warming, the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Thursday. "Nuclear power, in step with growing global demand for energy, will continue expanding into the next two decades," said a summary of the... Posted Sep 11 2008, 01:42 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: IAEA, New Nuclear Plants

• IAEA: Increased Demand May Triple Uranium Reserves

  Here's a clip for all the anti-nuke activists who say we're running out of Uranium. From Reuters : High uranium prices will spur exploration that could more than triple known global deposits, avoiding a shortage as China ramps up its nuclear capacity, a top executive with the International Atomic Energy Agency said. Yury A. Sokolov, the agency's deputy director general, said new technologies... Posted Oct 16 2007, 09:48 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: IAEA

• Temelin Gets IAEA Sign of Approval

  From Radio Praha : The drawn-out Czech-Austrian dispute over the Temelin nuclear power plant in south Bohemia, located just sixty kilometers from the Austrian border, took a new turn over the weekend when the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Muhammad El Baradei threw his weight fully behind the Czech Republic. In an interview for Monday's edition of the Austrian paper Profil Mr. El... Posted Aug 27 2007, 02:24 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: IAEA

• IAEA Issues Report on Kashiwazaki Kariwa Nuclear Plant

  Click here for the summary and here (PDF) for the complete report. From the summary: Earthquake damage to the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station on 16 July appears to be limited and less than expected, according to an IAEA expert report released today and submitted to the Japanese authorities. Although it appears that the earthquake of 16 July 2007 significantly exceeded the level of the seismic... Posted Aug 20 2007, 12:14 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: IAEA

• IAEA Team: Japan Reactor Damage "Appears less than expected."

  from Bloomberg : Damage to a nuclear power station run by Tokyo Electric Power Co. from a July 16 earthquake ``appears less than expected,'' the International Atomic Energy Agency said after a three-day examination. A team of inspectors ``has concluded that plant safety features performed as required during the earthquake,'' the IAEA, as the United Nations nuclear watchdog is known... Posted Aug 15 2007, 02:44 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: IAEA, TEPCO, Japan

• BBC Report on Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant and IAEA Inspection Team

  Read More... Posted Aug 13 2007, 11:07 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: IAEA

• IAEA Projects Substantial Expansion of Nuclear Energy

  From NucNet: Medium-term projections point to the possibility of “a substantial expansion” in the use of nuclear energy, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said in its annual report for 2006. The Vienna-based agency said that for the first time projections also recognise that nuclear energy would mitigate the discharge of carbon into the atmosphere, since energy produced from fossil... Posted Aug 07 2007, 11:37 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: IAEA