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3 October 2024

Update 252 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) lost the connection to its only remaining back-up power line for 36 hours this week, underlining the fragility of the electricity supplies it needs to cool its six reactors and for other essential nuclear safety and security functions, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said today. Read more →

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3 October 2024

IAEA Helps Burundi Ensure Food Security with Healthy Cattle

By introducing superior breeds of livestock and harnessing cutting-edge techniques to tackle animal diseases, the IAEA is helping Burundi to ensure food security. Read more →

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2 October 2024

Celebrating 60 Years of the Unique FAO and IAEA Partnership

This October, the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture is celebrating a remarkable milestone — its 60th anniversary. Read more →

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1 October 2024

Woman of Steel: The Earthquake Engineer Building a More Resilient Future

Zeynep Gulerce’s career has been shaped by earthquakes. She was a young civil-engineer-in-training in Türkiye when a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck the Kocaeli Province of the country. Read more →

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1 October 2024

Director General Grossi Travels to Belarus for High-Level Meetings, NPP Visit

IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi is visiting Belarus today for high-level meetings in the capital Minsk as well as a visit to the country’s nuclear power plant (NPP). Read more →

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30 September 2024

Optimized Radiotherapy Approach Could Extend Treatment to 2.2 Million More Cancer Patients, IAEA Co-authored Report Finds

Implementing hypofractionation – fewer but higher doses of radiation per daily treatment session over a shorter time frame – compared with conventional radiotherapy in prostate and breast cancer could provide radiotherapy for an additional 2.2 million patients globally, according to a Lancet Oncology Commission led by the IAEA. Read more →

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