International Nuclear News Including Fukushima Updates

The IAEA, supported by the Government of Japan, will designate a new Response and Assistance Network (RANET) Capacity Building Centre in the city of Fukushima next week.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will host an International Experts’ Meeting (IEM) on Human and Organizational Factors in Nuclear Safety in the Light of the Accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant from 21 to 24 May 2013...

International safety experts last week concluded a two-week International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mission to review the regulatory framework for nuclear and radiation safety in Poland.

Government ministers and international experts will discuss the future of nuclear energy at an IAEA Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Power in the 21st Century, to be held 27 – 29 June 2013 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.

An IAEA expert team today completed an initial review of Japan’s efforts to plan and implement the decommissioning of TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

An IAEA expert team will visit Japan this month at the request of the Japanese government to review the nation’s efforts to plan and implement the decommissioning of TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

In a decision taken by acclamation, the IAEA Board of Governors re-appointed the current Director General, Yukiya Amano, to a further four-year term of office.

Journalists are invited to attend a four-day International Conference in Paris to review fast reactor and fuel cycle technology advances, safety, economic and proliferation resistant related issues.

The IAEA Board of Governors will convene a meeting at the Agency’s headquarters starting at 10:00 CET on Monday, 4 March 2013 in Boardroom A of the M-Building, in the Vienna International Centre (VIC).

The following is a transcript of remarks made on 14 February 2013 by Herman Nackaerts, Deputy Director General for Safeguards, at the Vienna International Airport upon his return from Iran.

IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano expressed deep regret about the announcement that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has conducted a third test of a nuclear weapon.

The IAEA will mark World Cancer Day on Monday, 4 February 2013 with an event to raise awareness about the nature of cancer in low- and middle-income countries.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will host a five-day International Experts’ Meeting (IEM) on Decommissioning and Remediation After a Nuclear Accident from 28 January to 1 February 2013.

IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano and the Governor of Fukushima Prefecture, Yuhei Sato, today signed a Memorandum of Cooperation confirming their willingness to implement concrete projects to help alleviate the consequences of the accident at TEPCO’s...

Strengthening nuclear safety is a continuous process that leaves no room for complacency, the Co-Presidents of the Fukushima Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety said in a statement today.

Transcript of remarks made on 14 December 2012 by Herman Nackaerts, Deputy Director General for Safeguards, upon returning to Vienna, after talks between senior International Atomic Energy Agency officials and Iranian representatives in Tehran on 12 December...

An IAEA-led international team of nuclear safety experts noted a series of good practices and made recommendations to reinforce some safety measures during a review of safety practices at the Bulgaria’s Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) that concluded...

Following a large earthquake at 08:18 UTC today off the east coast of Japan, the IAEA’s Incident and Emergency Centre (IEC) has been in contact with the officially designated contact point in Japan, Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA...

The IAEA will brief Vienna-based journalists about the Fukushima Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety, to be held in Fukushima Prefecture on 15-17 December 2012.

Journalists are invited to attend a major International Conference in Bonn addressing radiation protection in medicine that will propose taking new steps to protect patients around the globe.

An IAEA-led international team of nuclear safety experts noted a series of good practices and made recommendations to reinforce some safety measures during a review of operational safety at France’s Gravelines Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) that concluded...

In the 50 years since they opened, the IAEA’s laboratories in Seibersdorf have improved the lives of millions of people through work using sophisticated scientific techniques, IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano said today at a ceremony to mark the...

The IAEA Board of Governors will convene a meeting at the Agency’s headquarters starting at 10:00 CET on Thursday, 29 November 2012 in Boardroom A of the M-Building, in the Vienna International Centre (VIC).

An international team of nuclear safety experts, led by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), completed a review of safety practices at Temelin Nuclear Power Station in the Czech Republic.

The 50th anniversary of the opening of the IAEA’s Nuclear Applications Laboratories in Seibersdorf will be marked in a ceremony to be held from 11:00-12:00 on 28 November in Boardroom A, M-Building at the Vienna International Centre (VIC).