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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

Qatar said on 12 June that all Israeli nuclear facilities should be made available for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect. Qatar’s Ambassador to Austria and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and International Organisations in Vienna, Sultan bin Salmeen Al Mansouri, said Israel is the only state in the Middle East that refuses to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Date: Wednesday, 16 June 2021
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsqatar-calls-for-iaea-inspection-of-israels-nuclear-facilities-8822805

Uzbekistan is "making great strides" in developing its nuclear and regulatory infrastructure in strong partnership with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Uzbek Minister of Energy Alisher Sultanov told participants in the 64th IAEA General Conference yesterday. Speaking via video-link to the annual event in Vienna, Sultanov provided an update on the Central Asian country’s new nuclear power programme.

Date: Wednesday, 23 September 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Uzbekistan-on-track-for-IAEA-mission-this-year,-sa

IAEA director-general Rafael Mariano Grossi at the IAEA ministerial conference on nuclear security in Vienna. Image courtesy D. Calma/IAEA. Ministers and representatives from more than 140 countries adopted yesterday a declaration to improve global nuclear security and counter the threat of nuclear terrorism during an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) conference in Vienna.

The IAEA ministerial conference on nuclear security kicked off yesterday at the IAEA headquarters and will continue until 14 February.

The IAEA said the declaration focuses also on other global issues, including cyber-attacks, and illicit trafficking of radioactive materials.

Date: Wednesday, 12 February 2020
Original article: nucnet.org/news/ministers-sign-declaration-to-improve-global-nuclear-security-during-vienna-conference-2-2-2020

North Korea confirmed on 17 August that it has resumed plutonium production and said it has no plans to stop nuclear tests as long as perceived threats from the USA continue. "We have reprocessed used nuclear fuel rods removed from a graphite-moderated reactor," the Atomic Energy Institute, which holds jurisdiction over North Korea's main nuclear facilities at the Yongbyon complex, said in a written interview with Kyodo News. In its first-ever response to foreign media questions, the institute also said North Korea has been producing highly enriched uranium necessary for nuclear arms and power "as scheduled”.

Date: Tuesday, 23 August 2016
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnorth-korea-resumes-plutonium-production-4986132

The USA has offered Ukraine new technology to enable its scientists to conduct studies on low-enriched uranium in exchange for removal of high-enriched uranium (HEU).

Date: Monday, 26 September 2011
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-to-supply-technology-to-ukraine-in-return-for-heu-removal

UK prime minister Gordon Brown has argued for greater diplomacy and international safeguards in a new world view that involves a greater access to nuclear power, and greater penalties for proliferation, in a speech delivered to the International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Conference in London on March 16.

Date: Monday, 23 March 2009
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsgordon-brown-lays-out-uk-s-nuclear-diplomacy