Enhancing Food Quality Using Irradiation How to prevent food contamination and waste? Irradiation is a safe and reliable solution, improving food preservation, as well as agricultural technologies and methods. The technology can be used to destroy microbes that cause food poisoning, or to help keep food fresher for longer because it reduces the numbers of…
IAEA is sending equipment to detect COVID-19 The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is dispatching a first batch of equipment to more than 40 countries to enable them to use a nuclear-derived technique to rapidly detect the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Dozens of laboratories in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean will receive…
Irradiated Vaccines for Animal Health and Food Security Irradiation is a safe and reliable solution for many problems, related to agriculture, food, animal and human health. Vaccines, in animals just like in people, activate an immunological response that helps the body prepare to fight off a future disease. Some vaccinations use live microorganisms, and radiations…
IRRUR – Integrated Research Reactor Utilization Review Mission What does IRRUR mean? The Integrated Research Reactor Utilization Review (IRRUR) is a holistic IAEA peer review mission conducted by a team of international experts who have direct managerial, operational and scientific experience related to research reactor utilization and related applications. IRRUR missions are designed to assist IAEA Member States…
IAEA Members to fund the fight against COVID-19 An initiative by the International Atomic Energy Agency to help some 120 countries contain the coronavirus pandemic has received extrabudgetary support from member states. The voluntary pledge is totalling around €22m. Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA’s director-general, said on 11 May the funds will enable the IAEA to…
Second International Conference on Applications of Radiation Science and Technology (ICARST-2021) The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is organizing the Second International Conference on Applications of Radiation Science and Technology (ICARST-2021) at the IAEA Headquarters in Vienna, Austria from 19 to 23 April 2021. Approximately 500 participants from IAEA Member States and invited international organizations…
IAEA New Lab Facility to Tackle Health, Food and Climate Change Challenges The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, and the Austrian Federal Minister for European and International Affairs Alexander Schallenberg, officially opened the new Yukiya Amano Laboratory Facility. It aims to assist countries to fight and prevent transboundary…
IAEA and Okayama University to Cooperate in Boron Neutron Capture Therapy R&D Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) is a non-invasive therapeutic technique for treating invasive malignant tumours. It relies on the use of neutrons for the generation of energetic alpha particles to destroy cells within the tumour, but not in the surrounding tissue. Recent breakthroughs…
Generation IV – IAEA and GIF Call for Faster Deployment The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Generation IV International Forum (GIF), an initiative involving 13 countries focused on next-generation nuclear power technologies, called for greater efforts to support the early deployment of innovative nuclear reactor systems to address climate change. The appeal came during the…
IAEA Pre-OSART Report on Flamanville-3 Is Now Available The French Nuclear Safety Authority (Autorité de sûreté nucléaire – ASN) has made public online the IAEA report of the pre-OSART (pre-Operational Safety Review Team) mission, which took place from 4-17 July 2019 at the Flamanville-3 nuclear power plant, under construction in Normandy. The main purpose of…