IAEA Press Releases Archive
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Director General Response to Security Council Resolution on Iran
23 December 2006 | In a press release issued today, IAEA Director General ElBaradei responds to the adoption by the UN Security Council of a resolution on Iran's nuclear programme. Read More »
Largest Batch of HEU Returned from Germany to Russia
18 December 2006 | The IAEA supported the largest ever return of highly enriched uranium from a civilian research reactor back to Russia. Read More »
IAEA Nobel Prize Money Fights Cancer Crisis in Africa
7 December 2006 | To fight the looming cancer crisis in Africa, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is assembling many of the world's leading cancer experts in Cape Town on 11-16 December. Read More »
IAEA Nobel Prize Money Fights Cancer Crisis in Asia
30 November 2006 | To fight the looming cancer crisis in Asia, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is assembling many of the world´s leading cancer experts in Bangkok on 4-6 December. Read More »
IAEA Nobel Prize Money Fights Cancer Crisis in Africa & Asia
30 November 2006 | To fight the looming cancer crisis in Asia and Africa, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is assembling many of the world's leading cancer experts in Thailand and South Africa. Read More »
DPRK Nuclear Test
9 October 2006 | In a statement, IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei said he deeply regrets, and expresses serious concern, about the reported carrying-out of a nuclear test by the Democratic People´s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Read More »
Nuclear Threat Initiative Commits $50 Million to Create IAEA Nuclear Fuel Bank
19 September 2006 | The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) will contribute $50 million to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to help create a low-enriched uranium stockpile to support nations that make the sovereign choice not to build indigenous nuclear fuel cycle capabilities, NTI Co-Chairman Sam Nunn announced in Vienna, Austria. Read More »
IAEA Seeks Guarantees of Nuclear Fuel
15 September 2006 | The world´s top nuclear experts and delegates from 140 countries are meeting in Vienna 19-21 September 2006 to consider proposals to guarantee countries´ supplies of nuclear fuel, the essential ingredient for nuclear power generation. Read More »
Sensitive Nuclear Material Removed From Poland
10 August 2006 | In a mission completed 9 August 2006, the IAEA helped Polish authorities to remove close to 40kg of highly enriched uranium (HEU) from a nuclear research reactor facility at Otwock-Swierk near the capital of Warsaw. Read More »
Radioactive Sources Recovered in Georgia
28 July 2006 | Two abandoned and potentially dangerous radioactive devices have been successfully secured in the first three days of a new effort to trace lost radioactive sources in Georgia. Such abandoned sources are known as orphan sources. Read More »
Senior IAEA Team To Visit New Delhi
6 July 2006 | A senior IAEA team will visit New Delhi at the invitation of the Government of India from 7 to 8 July 2006. Read More »
Statement by IAEA Director General on Iran
31 May 2006 | IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei welcomes the announcement today by U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, expressing the readiness of the U.S. Government to join the EU-Iran talks once Iran responds positively to the IAEA Board of Governor´s call for the suspension of enrichment related and reprocessing activities as a confidence-building measure. Read More »
Report on Iran Nuclear Safeguards Sent to Agency´s Board and UN Security Council
28 April 2006 | IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei released his report Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Read More »
Twenty Years After the Chernobyl Accident
25 April 2006 | Statement in Commemoration of the Chernobyl Tragedy by IAEA Director General, Mohamed ElBaradei. Read More »
Tackling Tuwaitha´s Radioactive Ruins
24 April 2006 | A project to clean-up the site, and other contaminated facilities in Iraq, was kick-started earlier this year at IAEA headquarters. Read More »
Bombs Grade "Spent" Nuclear Material Removed From Uzbekistan
20 April 2006 | Spent nuclear fuel containing enough uranium to produce 2.5 nuclear weapons has been safely returned to Russia from Uzbekistan in a classified mission completed on 19 April 2006. Read More »
IAEA Director General Encouraged by Meeting on Iran
2 March 2006 | IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei welcomed the high-level meeting between Foreign Ministers of the EU3, the High Representative of the EU and Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Secretary Ali Larijani in Vienna. Read More »
IAEA Director General Welcomes U.S. and India Nuclear Deal
2 March 2006 | IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei welcomed the announcement of the nuclear cooperation agreement reached between India and the United States. Read More »
Japanese, UN Support for Ethiopian Tsetse Fly Removal
1 March 2006 | The Japanese Government and the United Nations have committed $1,760,000 to a joint IAEA FAO project to remove the tsetse fly and the diseases it transmits from the Southern Rift Valley in Ethiopia. Read More »
IAEA Responds to Cancer Crisis in Tanzania
3 February 2006 | On the occasion of World Cancer Day (4 February), the IAEA announced that its Programme of Action for Cancer Therapy (PACT) will establish its first Centre of Excellence in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Read More »
Iran Begins Removal of IAEA Seals at Enrichment-related Locations
10 January 2006 | IAEA inspectors confirmed that Iran started to remove IAEA seals on enrichment-related equipment and material at Natanz. Read More »
Iran To Resume Suspended Nuclear Research and Development
3 January 2006 | The IAEA Secretariat received a Note Verbale from the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran in which Iran informed the Agency that it "has decided to resume from 9 January 2006 those R & D on the peaceful nuclear energy programme which has been suspended as part of its expanded voluntary and non-legally binding suspension." Read More »