About the IAEA
The IAEA is the world's centre for cooperation in the nuclear field and seeks to promote the safe, secure and peaceful use of nuclear technologies.
At the 14th Symposium on International Safeguards, underway this week at IAEA headquarters in Vienna, participants have been reflecting on experience gained and lessons learned over the course of six decades of implementation of nuclear safeguards; to verify that States are honouring their international legal obligations to use nuclear material and technology only for peaceful purposes. Read more →
The IAEA’s first ever book by global thought leaders on nuclear law, Nuclear Law: The Global Debate, is now available in five languages – Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish – in addition to its original English version which was published in April this year. Read more →
Unusually heavy monsoon rains and rapidly melting glaciers following a severe heat wave this year has led to historic flooding in Pakistan. In August, the country’s government declared a state of emergency and by the end of that month a third of the country was underwater. Read more →
A landmine explosion cut the main power supply connection to one of the reactors of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), in the latest incident underlining the fragile nuclear safety and security situation at the facility during the current military conflict, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said today. Read more →
More than 600 stakeholders in support of IAEA safeguards – diplomats, officials from State regulatory authorities, the research and development community, industry and civil society – are meeting this week in Vienna for the 14th Symposium on International Safeguards. Read more →
IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi made a global appeal to advance the benefits of clean and reliable nuclear energy as the International Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Power concluded in Washington today, amid a dire new Read more →
The IAEA is the world's centre for cooperation in the nuclear field and seeks to promote the safe, secure and peaceful use of nuclear technologies.