French President Emmanuel Macron promised transparency around decades of nuclear tests in French Polynesia and changes to compensation procedures on Tuesday when he stopped to talk to a group of protesters on his first official trip to the territory.
The United States on Saturday, July 17, accused Tehran of an “outrageous” effort to deflect blame for the impasse in Iran nuclear talks and denied that any agreement had been reached on a prisoner swap.
The IAEA recently hosted a workshop about the existing international nuclear liability regime for 76 participants from 8 Member States. In cooperation with the Government of Indonesia, the IAEA organized the virtual Subregional Workshop on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage for ASEAN Plus Three, from 29 June to 1 July 2021.
The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, today broke ground for a new facility that will help strengthen countries’ abilities to tackle nuclear terrorism in areas such as the illegal trafficking of nuclear material and the physical protection of facilities and major public events.
Much progress in nuclear and many groundbreaking discoveries are thanks to the contribution of women scientists — yet to this day, women remain underrepresented in many areas of nuclear science, including nuclear security. A new initiative from the IAEA hopes to change that.
Construction officially started today of the ACP100 small modular reactor demonstration project at the Changjiang nuclear power plant on China’s island province of Hainan. China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) said the project will be the world’s first land-based commercial SMR. The multi-purpose 125 MWe pressurised water reactor (PWR) – also referred to as the Linglong One – is designed for electricity production, heating, steam production or seawater desalination.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has called for more Member States to appoint a national focal point (NFP) on denials of shipment of radioactive materials. Speaking during a webinar organised by the independent Transport Facilitation Working Group and hosted last week by World Nuclear Association, he said having more NFPs would result in the smoother transport of radioactive materials around the globe.
Nuclear energy must be included in a delegated act of the European taxonomy, 18 trade unions in the energy sector from 10 European Union countries have told Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission (EC). In a joint letter, the unions called for “a dialogue with the purpose of nuclear energy to play its full potential and build an economically efficient and socially just carbon-free Europe by 2050”.
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