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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is satisfied with the process of releasing tritium-containing treated water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi NPP into the sea, IAEA Director-General Rafael Marino Grossi said during a visit to Japan.

Date: Saturday, 16 March 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-satisfied-with-fukushima-treated-water-release-process-11605466

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi says one aim of the forthcoming Nuclear Energy Summit for heads of state is to see what "international cooperation mechanisms we can agree" to accelerate the provision of new nuclear in line with the COP28 declaration in December.

Date: Tuesday, 05 March 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Grossi-hopes-nuclear-summit-can-agree-new-financin

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has recalled that in his opening statement to the IAEA Board in November, he reported that IAEA had observed increased levels of activity at, and near, the Light Water Reactor (LWR) at Yongbyon in North Korea. Also – since mid-October – a strong water outflow from its cooling system was noted. These observations were consistent with the commissioning of the LWR, he said.

Date: Wednesday, 03 January 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-reports-activity-at-north-korean-reactor-11405973

Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi opened the 67th International Atomic Energy Agency General Conference by saying that opinion polls show the "tide is turning" on public attitudes to nuclear energy, but countries "still need to engage stakeholders openly and proactively" in their nuclear power programmes.

Date: Tuesday, 26 September 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Grossi-urges-vocal-backing-of-nuclear-as-IAEA-gath

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has said he hopes to "reinforce" the agency's team of experts at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to reflect its expanded role which includes monitoring compliance with the five safety and security principles outlined at the United Nations last week.

Date: Tuesday, 06 June 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-preparing-to-expand-team-at-Zaporizhzhia

Addressing the opening session of the Tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said: “We cannot build a more secure world with more nuclear weapons in existing arsenals and if more countries seek to acquire them.” His ten-minute address, covered global threats to international security, the growing role low-carbon nuclear power is expected to play in meeting the world’s energy and climate needs, the threats to nuclear safety in the war in Ukraine and the use of nuclear technologies for peaceful purposes globally.

Date: Saturday, 06 August 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaeas-grossi-addresses-npt-review-conference-9905364

In a time of "global uncertainty, anxiety and fear" the world "must come together and recommit" to "nuclear non-proliferation, disarmament and to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy", International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has said.

Date: Wednesday, 03 August 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Grossi-urges-world-to-recommit-to-nuclear-non-prol

The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Gross, in his latest report to the Board of Governors on “Application of Safeguards in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” says the DPRK’s nuclear activities “continue to be a cause for serious concern”.

Date: Wednesday, 08 September 2021
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-finds-some-of-north-koreas-nuclear-activities-deeply-troubling-9061728

The lack of progress in clarifying the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA's) questions concerning the correctness and completeness of Iran's safeguards declarations seriously affects the ability of the IAEA to provide assurance of the peaceful nature of the country's nuclear programme, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said today in his opening statement to the quarterly session of the IAEA Board of Governors.

Date: Tuesday, 08 June 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Grossi-calls-for-Iran-to-cooperate-with-IAEA-reque

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) cannot judge whether Iran will choose to become only the second country, after North Korea, ever to deny its inspectors access to nuclear sites, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said today. Grossi was speaking in an interview with Francois Murphy, chief correspondent of Reuters in Austria, where the IAEA is headquartered. The interview was held on the first day of the Reuters Next virtual summit that is taking place until 14 January.

Date: Tuesday, 12 January 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-confined-to-piecemeal-updates-from-Iran-says