IAEA Alert Log

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 intensive discussions. Differences remain, so we could not finalize the structured approach...

15 December 2012 | Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan – IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano and the Governor of Fukushima Prefecture, Yuhei Sato, today signed a Memorandum of Cooperationconfirming their willingness to implement concrete projects to help alleviate the consequences of the...

15 December 2012 | Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan – 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. Koichiro Gemba, Japan’s Minister...

Vienna |The following is a transcript of remarks made today 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 12 December: “We had a long day of...

13 December 2012 | Kozloduy, Bulgaria – | 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...

This statement can be attributed IAEA Spokesperson Gill Tudor: 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...

5 December 2012 | 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. The briefing will be held in room B0486 at 11 a.m. on Friday, 7 December at the IAEA Headquarters in the Vienna...

Mr Chairman, I would like to begin by informing the Board about my visit to Ethiopia earlier this month. I visited the headquarters of the African Union to address the Second Conference of States Parties to the Pelindaba Treaty. I complimented the countries of Africa on their success in establishing...

  Vienna – The following statement can be attributed to Gill TUDOR, IAEA Spokesperson: ‘Some contact details related to experts working with the IAEA were posted on a hacker site on 25 November 2012. ‘The IAEA deeply regrets this publication of information stolen from an old server that...

Temelin, Czech Republic, 22 November 2012 | An international team of nuclear safety experts, led by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), today completed a review of safety practices at Temelin Nuclear Power Station in the Czech Republic. The team highlighted the power plant’s good...

Rawatbhata, India, 14 November 2012 | An international team of nuclear safety experts led by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today completed a review of safety practices at Units 3 and 4 of the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station in Rawatbhata.  The team noted a series of good practices...

On 11 November 2012, IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano met Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad, Iraq, to extend his congratulations on Iraq’s ratification of the Additional Protocol. Please see full story here. ...read more

8 November 2012 | Vienna, Austria –Japan, in co-sponsorship with the IAEA, will hold the Fukushima Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety in Fukushima Prefecture on 15-17 December. The principal objective of the conference is to contribute to strengthening nuclear safety worldwide by sharing...

26 October 2012 | Helsinki, Finland – International safety experts today concluded a two-week International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mission to review the regulatory framework for nuclear and radiation safety in Finland. In its preliminary report, the Integrated Regulatory Review Service...

IAEA Leads Operational Safety Mission to Mühleberg Nuclear Power Plant   Bern, 25 October 2012 | An international team of nuclear safety experts led by the International Atomic Energy Agency today concluded a review of the safety practices at the Mühleberg Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) near Bern in...

Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great pleasure for me to speak here at Chatham House. I am aware that this is a very knowledgeable audience. Some of you are leading world experts in issues which I will touch upon today, such as nuclear non-proliferation. I would therefore like to start by talking about...

Please feel free to attribute this to Serge Gas, IAEA Director of Public Information:  “The IAEA has seen media reports that Director General Amano will visit Iran to discuss nuclear issues.  There are no such plans at this time.” ...read more

Minsk, Belarus– The International Atomic Energy Agency today delivered the final report from an IAEA Integrated Nuclear Infrastructure Review (INIR) mission to Belarus. The report concludes that Belarus has made important progress in its development of nuclear infrastructure for a nuclear power programme...

18 September 2012, Vienna | The Director General of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano, met yesterday with H.E. Dr Fereydoun Abbasi, Vice President of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Head of the Atomic Energy Agency of Iran (AEOI). The current status and future of negotiations between the IAEA and Iran on...

Mr President, The IAEA’s founding fathers were people of great foresight. When they approved the Agency’s Statute in October 1956, the world faced very different challenges from those of today. But the Statute was framed in a way that ensures that the Agency is more relevant than ever, nearly 60 years...

56th GENERAL CONFERENCE: 17 – 21 September 2012 LIST OF SIDE EVENTS (Press and Delegates)   SPECIAL EVENTS FOR MEDIA     Date   Time   Title   Short description Press officer contact point Sponsoring MS/ other   Format   Room   17 Sept 16:45 Press Conference Mr Fereydoun ABBASI DAVANIVice-President...

Mr Chairman, I would like to begin by congratulating Rwanda on becoming the 155th Member State of the Agency. I will now update the Board on recent developments in nuclear safety and security, starting with implementation of the IAEA Action Plan on Nuclear Safety. One year after its adoption, significant...

INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS’ MEETING – IEM3 “On Protection against Extreme Earthquakes and Tsunamis in the Light of the Accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant” Chairperson’s Summary- Condensed In March 2011 the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami led to the nuclear accident at TEPCO’s Fukushima...

Press Release Statement 31 August 2012 Main Conclusions of the 2nd Extraordinary Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Convention on Nuclear Safety Nuclear regulators and operators reaffirmed their commitment to nuclear safety at the 2nd Extraordinary Meeting of the CPs to the Convention on Nuclear...

6 September 2012 | Vienna, Austria – Journalists are invited to a press briefing upon the adjournment of the International Experts’ Meeting (IEM) on Protection against Extreme Earthquakes and Tsunamis in the Light of the Accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on Friday...