Nuclear techniques can help protect soil from degradation, which affects 1.9 billion hectares of land, a whopping 65 per cent of global soil resources.
Read more →How helium - the light noble gas that sends balloons floating in the air - enters the atmosphere has wracked the brains of scientists for generations. Now the mystery has been solved, as an unexpected side benefit of research done by a group of scientists in an IAEA-led project to study groundwater in South America.
Read more →Millions of workers are routinely exposed to ionizing radiation on the job. The need to more adequately protect these workers and to reiterate the need for the doses they receive to be as low as reasonably achievable, is the main thrust behind the International Conference on Occupational Radiation Protection: Enhancing the Protection of Workers—Gaps, Challenges and Developments.
Read more →The following is a transcript of an interview on CNN with IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano, which was broadcast live on 25 November 2014:
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