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• IAEA sets target on delay and denial

  The International Atomic Energy Agency has set a target of reducing delays and denials of shipment of radioactive material to "an insignificant level" by 2013. Posted Mar 12 2010, 12:04 PM by World Nuclear News Filed under: IAEA, Radioactive Waste, delay, international atomic Energy Agency, shipment, radioactive, 2013

• Big names for UAE nuclear advisory board

  Former International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director general Hans Blix heads a list of distinguished figures announced by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as its International Advisory Board (IAB). Dr Blix is joined on the IAB by special adviser to France's Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA) and former chairman of the Generation IV international forum Jacques Bouchard; former South Korean minister of science and technology KunMo Chung; former US diplomat and non-proliferation expert Thomas Graham; president of the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum (JAIF) and former Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) executive vice president Takuya Hattori; UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) chair Barbara Judge; Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor of nuclear and mechanical engineering Mujid Kazimi; director general of Finland's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority Jukka Laaksonen; and Rolls-Royce plc chief executive John Rose. The IAB, chaired by Blix, will offer guidance to the UAE to help it to ensure that its fledgling nuclear energy program meets the highest standards of safety, security and non-proliferation, according to state news agency WAM. The board is to meet twice per year, with its first meeting scheduled to take place in February, and will issue regular reports which the UAE has undertaken to make publicly available. Posted Feb 23 2010, 07:32 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: IAEA, TEPCO, UAE, nuclear, united arab emirates, cea, executive appointments, advisory board

• Emerging nuclear countries share perspective

  Representatives from countries thinking about using nuclear power are working on the thorny problem of developing a national nuclear infrastructure with the help of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Posted Feb 11 2010, 11:38 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: IAEA, nuclear, power, international atomic Energy Agency, infrastructure, workshop

• Blanket EU nuclear safeguards deal

  Most member states of the EU will have simplified routines to safeguard their nuclear materials under a special deal agreed with the International Atomic Energy Agency. Posted Jan 08 2010, 10:45 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: IAEA, europe, safety, nuclear, international atomic Energy Agency, eu, safeguards

• Approval for Russia's fuel bank

  A stockpile of nuclear fuel is to be set up in Russia under IAEA auspices in an effort to increase security of supply. Posted Dec 01 2009, 11:29 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: IAEA, Uranium, Russia, fuel, storage, international atomic Energy Agency, bank

• ElBaradei steps down

  Mohamed ElBaradei has completed his final term as IAEA director general and today handed over to Yukiya Amano. Posted Nov 30 2009, 11:11 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: IAEA, director general, election, Amano, international atomic Energy Agency, elbaradei, yukiya amano

• Escalation of Iranian nuclear tension

  The situation surrounding Iran's nuclear program grew dramatically more tense after the country reacted to a new resolution by announcing ten new enrichment plants. Posted Nov 30 2009, 10:18 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: IAEA, Iran, safety, enrichment, policy, international atomic Energy Agency, middle east

• Study on climate and credit crises

  The financial crisis of the last year caused the most significant ever drop in energy demand and investment, leaving turbulence in energy programs worldwide, the International Energy Agency said today. Posted Nov 10 2009, 10:55 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: IAEA, nuclear, international atomic Energy Agency, economics, financial, crredit, worldwide, programs

• ElBaradei's last UN address

  Mohamed ElBaradei made calls for major investment in the International Atomic Energy Agency during his last address to the UN General Assembly. Posted Nov 04 2009, 11:42 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: IAEA, un, united nations, international atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, assembly

• Opening access to nuclear R&D documents

  The US Department of Energy (DoE) has made available through the Internet thousands of documents and publications related to nuclear research. In collaboration with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the DoE's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) has made more than 180,000 documents publicly available through the IAEA's International Nuclear Information System (INIS). The INIS web-based database works to preserve nuclear knowledge by digitizing historic nuclear energy research documents dating from 1970 through to the early 1990s. The database contains over 3 million bibliographic records and 225,000 full-text documents and was opened to the public for free, unrestricted, online access in April 2009. Yury Sokolov, IAEA deputy director general for nuclear energy, said, "Thanks to the collaborative work of the IAEA and its member states, scientists and students in the nuclear field now have instant access to important research and technical information over the Internet." Speaking of the greater accessibility of such information, OSTI director Walt Warnick commented, "This tremendous body of knowledge is thus enjoying a renaissance of use and interest, and science progress will accelerate." Posted Oct 29 2009, 11:24 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: IAEA, DOE, international atomic Energy Agency, publications, office of scientific and technical information, documents, osti, department of energy

• Step up in cooperation

  International nuclear inspectors are now at Qom, the newly disclosed uranium enrichment site in Iran. The departure of the inspectors from Vienna was confirmed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on 24 October, as was a positive reaction to plans to meet Iran's needs for research reactor fuel. France, Russia and the USA have all approved a scheme to provide 19.5% enriched uranium to a reactor used, among other things, to make medical isotopes in Tehran. The uranium will be taken from Iranian stocks enriched to less than 5% and further enriched in Russia before being made into finished reactor fuel in France. Iran is still to give its final approval for the plan, which the IAEA hopes will come soon and "signal a new era of cooperation." Posted Oct 26 2009, 12:40 PM by World Nuclear News Filed under: IAEA, Uranium, Russia, Iran, France, fuel, reactor, international atomic Energy Agency

• Rajasthan units operating by January

  [New Kerala/IANS, 8 October] The fifth and sixth units at India's Rajasthan nuclear power plant are both expected to be fully operating by January, according to SK Jain, chairman of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL). In a press interview, Jain said that he was hoping for approvals from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) this month that would clear the way for unit 5 to start operating by early November, followed by unit 6 in January 2010. Both the units will come under the IAEA's India-specific safeguards that will allow it to qualify for imported fuel. Jain also said that two Russian-designed units being built at Kudankulam would be commissioned in 2010, with work on the third and fourth units at the site likely to start by "year end". Necessary approvals for groundwork to start on the six-reactor plant to be built by French company Areva at Jaitapur in Maharashtra are likely to be granted shortly afterwards, he said. Posted Oct 08 2009, 10:34 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: IAEA, Russia, India, NPCIL, rajastan, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd

• Climate study comes early this year

  Nuclear power is one technology that must be accelerated, promoted and relied upon if the world is to stabilise carbon dioxide emissions at an acceptable level, according to an advance release by the International Energy Agency. Posted Oct 06 2009, 11:41 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: IAEA, climate change, study, report, CO2, nuclear, international atomic Energy Agency

• UAE adopts nuclear law

  The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has adopted a federal law on the peaceful use of nuclear energy, bringing its plans for a nuclear power program one step closer. Posted Oct 05 2009, 11:28 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: New Nuclear Plants, IAEA, NRC, UAE, legislation, nuclear, power, energy, international atomic Energy Agency, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, united arab emirates

• Iran owns up to plant as UN calls for disarmament

  Within a day of the United Nations Security Council passing its first comprehensive action on nuclear issues since the mid-1990s, Iran has admitted it has been building a new uranium enrichment plant. Posted Sep 25 2009, 11:13 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: IAEA, Iran, un, plant, united nations, international atomic Energy Agency