IAEA Alert Log

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 Centre will be home to several IAEA activities aimed at enhancing emergency preparedness and response capacity, both in Japan and...

The following is the text of a speech by Director General Yukiya Amano to the Biennial General Meeting of the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) in Moscow today: Good morning, Ladies and Gentlemen, When I addressed the last WANO Biennial Meeting in Shenzhen, China, in October 2011, we were...

IAEA to Host Experts’ Meeting on Human and Organizational Factors in Nuclear Safety 17 May 2013 | 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...

Warsaw, Poland – 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. In its preliminary report, the Integrated Regulatory Review Service (IRRS) mission team found that...

Vienna – 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. The conference aims to provide a forum for policy-makers...

Tokyo, Japan – 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. The International Peer Review of Japan’s Mid-and-Long-Term Roadmap towards the Decommissioning of TEPCO’s...

19 April 2013 | Sofia, Bulgaria — An international team of senior nuclear safety and radiation protection experts today concluded a 12-day mission to review the regulatory framework for nuclear and radiation safety in Bulgaria. The Integrated Regulatory Review Service (IRRS) mission, conducted...

The IAEA’s Incident and Emergency Centre (IEC) contacted the Iran Nuclear Regulatory Authority (INRA) concerning the 7.8 magnitude earthquake which occurred at 12:44 UTC today in the south-east of the country. INRA informed the IEC that the earthquake caused no damage to Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant or...

Team Leader: Juan Carlos Lentijo, IAEA, Director of Division of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology  Team members: Zoran Drace, IAEA, Division of Nuclear Power Akira Izumo, IAEA, Division of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology Christian Glorennec, EDF/CIDEN, France Anton Leschenko, Sosny R&D...

The IAEA’s International Seismic Safety Centre (ISSC) has notified the Agency’s Incident and Emergency Centre (IEC) that an earthquake struck southern Iran today at 11:53 UTC, about 91 kilometres from the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant. Iran has informed the IEC of the event, reporting that there has been...

Media Advisory: IAEA Experts to Visit Fukushima Daiichi Site, Review Japan’s Decommissioning Plans 9 April, Vienna — 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...

Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that cooling systems at all spent fuel pools at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station have resumed operation. This follows a power outage that began at 19:00 local time on 18 March 2013, disabling spent...

Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority today informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that several systems that cool spent fuel pools at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station stopped working following a power outage that began at 19:00 local time yesterday. Two of the systems – at Unit 1 and...

The following is a statement by IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano to mark the second anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi accident, on 11 March, 2013: “Two years have passed since disaster struck Japan. The Great East Japan Earthquake and the enormous tsunami of March 11, 2011 devastated large...

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen.  This afternoon, the Board of Governors appointed me for a second term.  This requires the approval by the General Conference to be held in September this year.  I am deeply grateful for the trust that the Board of Governors placed in me once again.  I regard this...

Re-appointment of Director General Yukiya Amano Today the Board of Governors re-appointed by acclamation the current Director General, Mr Yukiya Amano, to a further term of office for four years, from 1 December 2013 to 30 November 2017. The Board extended to Mr Amano its congratulations and best wishes...

Mr Chairman, I would like to begin by congratulating the Kingdom of Swaziland on becoming the 159th Member State of the IAEA. Mr Chairman, Next Monday is the second anniversary of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. It has been a challenging two years, especially for the...

26 February 2013 | 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. More than 600 delegates from 28 countries are expected to participate. This IAEA...

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. “I understand that the DPRK announced it had carried out a third test of a nuclear weapon, despite calls from the...

Vienna, Austria – The IAEA will mark World Cancer Day on Monday, 4 February, with an event to raise awareness about the nature of cancer in low- and middle-income countries. This year’s “Did You Know?” theme for World Cancer Day is an opportunity to improve general knowledge about...

Brussels – The following is a joint statement by the European Union and the IAEA after their first Senior Officials Meeting today:   On 25 January 2013 officials of the EU and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) met in Brussels for a first ever Senior Level meeting bringing together officials...

25 January 2013 | Vienna, Austria – 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. This is part of a series of expert meetings held...

Davos, Switzerland – The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano, met President Shimon Peres of Israel on 24 January while attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The Director General and President Peres discussed areas of common interest...

UPDATE: The date of the next meeting has been changed to 13 February. 18 January 2013 IAEA Deputy Director General Herman Nackaerts, Head of the Department of Safeguards, made these remarks this morning at Vienna International Airport upon his return from two days of talks in Iran. We had two days of...

On 16 January 2013, the operational status of 47 Japanese nuclear reactors in the IAEA’s Power Reactor Information System (PRIS) was changed by Japan’s Nuclear Energy Safety Organization (JNES) from ‘in operation’ to ‘long-term shutdown’. The Agency asked its Japanese counterparts for additional clarification...