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.
The German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen was the first person to discover the potential use of X-rays for imaging in 1895, when he created the radiograph, an image produced by X-rays instead of light. Read more →
Planning and innovation play crucial roles when it comes to the end of a nuclear reactor's life. Read more →
Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) still has enough essential staff for its current reduced level of operations, but the continued lack of maintenance personnel on-site could negatively impact nuclear safety and security and is not sustainable, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said today. Read more →
With interest in nuclear power growing worldwide, demand for uranium—the element from which fuel for nuclear reactors is fabricated—is also on the rise. International experts and stakeholders gathered at the IAEA this week to analyze the latest developments in the uranium production cycle, including supply-demand scenarios, to ensure the long-term sustainability of nuclear power. Read more →
Nuclear techniques have already delivered innovations in the field of food security in Africa, but much more can be achieved by investing in science and technology and in capacity building, speakers emphasized at a joint meeting of the IAEA and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Vienna today. Read more →
The IAEA presented its work on climate change adaptation and mitigation using nuclear techniques at the United Nations (UN) eighth annual Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum), held on 3 to 4 May at the UN Headquarters in New York. 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.