Ms Najat Mokhtar, Director of the IAEA’s Division for Asia and Pacific, Department of Technical Cooperation, at the Responsible Business Forum in Singapore. (Photo: Responsible Business Forum on Sustainable Development, Event Report / UNDP) Ms Najat Mokhtar, Director of the Division for Asia and Pacific in the IAEA’s Department of Technical Cooperation, represented the International… Read more »
Sierra Prieta, Dominican Republic — While the Dominican Republic generates a relatively low volume of radioactive waste, it has prioritized their safe and secure treatment. Radioactive sources are used in fields such as medicine, industry and mining. Once they have served their purpose, such so-called disused sources must be safely and securely stored or disposed… Read more »
The IAEA toolkit describes the elements necessary to develop a full package of Severe Accident Management Guidelines. (Photo: IAEA) Supporting Member States to have a common understanding of a reliable severe accident management programme for nuclear power plants (NPP) was the aim of a comprehensive two-day workshop held this month at the IAEA. The Agency’s… Read more »
More than 1000 destroyed research papers on high-energy physics and astrophysics have been recovered in Armenia thanks to digital copies saved at the IAEA’s International Nuclear Information System (INIS). For over 25 years, without sufficient government funds to support the library of the Yerevan Physics Institute (YerPhI), the thousands of research papers it held were… Read more »
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