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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have launched the Atoms4Food initiative to help boost food security and tackle growing world hunger. It will support countries to use innovative nuclear techniques in enhancing agricultural productivity, reducing food losses, ensuring food safety, improving nutrition, and adapting to the challenges of climate change.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 20 October 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-and-fao-launch-atoms4food-initiative-11232607
A pilot trial of a nuclear technique in a neighbourhood of the Cuban capital Havana reduced mosquito numbers by up to 90% last year. Early reports show that cases of mosquito-borne diseases were completely eliminated in the last two months of the trial.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 15 January 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclear-technique-cuts-mosquito-numbers-in-Cuban-t
A new infrared system is helping the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to speed up the sorting of male from female tsetse flies as the agency controls the breeding of the insect using irradiation. The tsetse is a bloodsucking insect found in sub-Saharan Africa which transmits a parasite that can be fatal to both animals and humans.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 08 January 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-announces-innovation-in-tsetse-fly-control
A nuclear technique has successfully reduced the tsetse fly population in Senegal without harming other insects, an eight-year study has found. The study was supported by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), together with the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation. The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an insect birth control method that uses radiation to sterilise male flies.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 15 January 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Radiation-used-to-control-tsetse-fly-numbers-in-Se
Nuclear energy is a mature and proven low-carbon source of electricity, with a 60-year track record of providing reliable and safe operation. Further innovation and technological development will enable even wider applications aimed at deep decarbonisation of economies around the world and supporting sustainable development. This was the message of King Lee, director of the Harmony Programme at World Nuclear Association, to delegates at the UN side event for Sustainable Development Goal 9, held today at COP25 in Madrid.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 04 December 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Speech-Nuclear-energy-innovation-for-clean-growth
Thanks to receipt of additional funding, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Flexible Modular Laboratory (FML), currently under construction, remains on track to be completed by the end of 2018. It will comprise three laboratories dealing with animal production and health, food safety, soil and water management and crop nutrition.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 04 October 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-achieves-funding-target-for-new-laboratory-building-5940332
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has begun building a new laboratory that will enable it to help countries to use nuclear techniques to control insect pests, including mosquitoes. The construction is part of the Renovation of the Nuclear Applications Laboratories project (ReNuAL), which aims to upgrade the eight IAEA Nuclear Sciences and Applications laboratories in Seibersdorf, Austria, which began operating in 1962. “ReNuAL is one of the most important projects in the Agency’s 60-year history,” said IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano. “The laboratories are unique within the United Nations system in providing member states with direct access to scientific training, technology and analytical services. More than 150 of our member states benefit from them.” He added that modernisation will significantly increase the Agency’s ability assist members.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 22 September 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newslaboratory-upgrade-for-iaea-5013187