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26 June 2025

Update 298 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) remains reliant on one single off-site power line to receive the external electricity it needs to cool its six reactors and their spent fuel, some seven weeks after it lost the connection to its last back-up power line, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said today. Read more →

Press Release

26 June 2025

World Bank Group, IAEA Formalize Partnership to Collaborate on Nuclear Energy for Development

The partnership agreement, signed by World Bank Group President Ajay Banga and IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, formalizes multiple engagements between the two institutions over the last year, and marks the World Bank Group’s first concrete step to reengage with nuclear power in decades. Read more →

Press Release

25 June 2025

Global Nuclear Emergency Exercise Concludes, Testing International Response in Simulated Reactor Accident

The IAEA, in collaboration with over 75 countries and 10 international organizations, successfully concluded a 36-hour simulation that tested global readiness and response mechanisms to a severe nuclear emergency scenario at Romania’s Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant. Such exercises are held every three to five years. Read more →

News Story

25 June 2025

Call for Abstracts for Conference on Nuclear and Radiation Regulatory Systems

Interested contributors have until 1 September 2025 to submit abstracts for an IAEA conference on effective nuclear and radiation regulatory systems. Read more →

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24 June 2025

IAEA Launches Management System Advisory Service to Support the Introduction of Nuclear Power, Conducts First Mission to Saudi Arabia

The IAEA conducted its first-ever management systems advisory service in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from 19 to 22 May 2025. Read more →

Press Release

24 June 2025

Update on Developments in Iran (6)

Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has welcomed today’s announcements regarding the situation in Iran and stressed the need for a resumption of the IAEA’s indispensable safeguards verification work in the country following a 12-day military conflict that severely damaged several of its nuclear sites. Read more →

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