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News Story
26 November 2021
Women in STEM: Enhancing the Nuclear Safety Culture
“The concept of a ‘safety culture’ is something that I identified for myself as very important, early on in my career,” says Maria Moracho Ramirez, Senior Safety Officer at the IAEA. “It relates to a culture of behaviour, and if you’ve been a trainer, you know that training for influencing behaviours is very complicated.” Read more →
Press Release
26 November 2021
IAEA Concludes Long Term Operational Safety Review at the Atucha Nuclear Power Plant in Argentina
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts today completed a review of long term operational safety at Unit 1 of the Atucha Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Argentina. Read more →
Press Release
26 November 2021
IAEA Mission Sees Safety Commitment by Russia’s Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant, Encourages Continued Improvement
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts said the operator of Russia’s Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant demonstrated a commitment to safety in areas such as severe accident management training and the promotion of safety culture. The team also identified areas for further enhancement, including proposals related to the plant’s operating experience programme, maintenance and operation. Read more →
Bulletin Article
25 November 2021
Exploring Alternatives to Magnetic Confinement
Laser fusion is a method of igniting nuclear fusion reactions and is a potential alternative to magnetic confinement. Read more →
News Story
24 November 2021
High-level Meetings in Iran 'Inconclusive,' IAEA Director General tells Board
Extensive negotiations yesterday in Iran to address outstanding nuclear verification issues “proved inconclusive,” IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi told the Agency’s Board of Governors Read more →
News Story
23 November 2021
Nuclear Techniques Help Bangladeshi Experts Develop Improved Cotton Varieties in Record Time
Cotton is the oldest known and most used textile around the world. While it took around 3,000 years to understand how to cultivate and process the first wild cotton, now with nuclear techniques, new and improved varieties have been developed in Bangladesh in record time: just five years. Read more →
Latest info on COVID-19 from Austrian and Viennese authorities
Update as of 30 June: Vienna-based IAEA staff are working from the VIC as of 1 July. For more, click here.
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13 – 17 Dec 2021
Vienna, Austria
International Conference on the Safe and Secure Transport of Nuclear and Radioactive Materials
28 Mar – 1 Apr 2022
Vienna, Austria
2022 Conference of the Parties to the Amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material
25 – 28 Apr 2022
Beijing, China
International Conference on Fast Reactors and Related Fuel Cycles (FR22)
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