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The eighth European Union-International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Senior Officials Meeting discussed opportunities to deepen cooperation in a range of areas, including collaboration on the development and deployment of small modular reactors (SMRs).

Date: Thursday, 17 March 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Ukraine,-climate,-SMRs-EU-and-IAEA-nuclear-talks

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on 2 September that an IAEA team of experts was in Lebanon to help strengthen its capability to examine the integrity of buildings impacted in last year’s port explosion in Beirut.

Date: Wednesday, 08 September 2021
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-supports-lebanon-in-assessing-integrity-of-buildings-9061888

Asia’s first demonstration facility for medical wastewater treatment using electron beam (EB) technology began operation in China this year. According the an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on 11 August. “This is the first pilot-scale – 400 cubic metres per day – demonstration of EB for medical wastewater treatment,” said Shijun He, Professor at the Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology (INET) at Tsinghua University. The facility in the Hubei Province sterilises medical wastewater and decomposes antibiotics without additional disinfectant or the production of secondary pollution. The milestone builds on a foundation of research by and technical cooperation with the IAEA that started a decade ago. “The IAEA has played a very important role on EB application in China,” said He. The facility opened in May.

Date: Wednesday, 18 August 2021
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschina-opens-electron-beam-facility-to-treat-medical-wastewater-9005111

Electron beam technology is being used to treat medical wastewater in China for the first time. It is safer and cleaner than traditional methods as well as more effective at removing organic molecules such as viruses and antibiotics, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said.

Date: Saturday, 14 August 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/China-begins-nuclear-treatment-for-contaminated-wa

Two reactors already under construction with plans for a fourth A virtual ceremony was held to mark the event. Image courtesy Rosatom. The presidents of Turkey and Russia have remotely inaugurated the construction of a third nuclear reactor of Akkuyu power station in southern Turkey, vowing to continue their close cooperation, press reports said.

Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom said a “solemn ceremony” was also held at the site of the nuclear station and attended by Turkish energy and natural resources minister Fatih Dienmez, Rosatom director-general Aleksey Likhachev and Akkuyu Nuclear chief executive officer Anastasia Soteeva.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the facility would launch Turkey into the “league of nuclear energy countries” and called it a “symbol of Turkish-Russian cooperation.” Nuclear power is a “strategic step” for energy security, Mr Erdogan said.

Date: Friday, 12 March 2021
Original article: nucnet.org/news/presidents-launch-construction-of-third-unit-at-turkey-nuclear-station-3-4-2021

Rosatom announced today that first concrete has been poured for the third unit of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant under construction in the Mersin province of Turkey. The Russian and Turkish heads of state joined the ceremony held to mark the event by video link. The Akkuyu nuclear power plant project is based on an intergovernmental agreement the two countries signed in 2010.

Date: Thursday, 11 March 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/First-concrete-poured-for-Akkuyu-unit-3

An initiative by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to help some 120 countries contain the COVID-19 pandemic has received strong extrabudgetary backing from Member States, with voluntary pledges so far totalling around EUR22 million (USD24 million).

Date: Wednesday, 13 May 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Funding-for-IAEA-COVID-19-initiative-reaches-EUR22

As the COVID-19 pandemic makes governments and international organisations consider new ways of conducting business and protecting communities, we need to turn the recovery into an opportunity to safeguard the future, writes Christer Viktorsson, director general of the UAE’s Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation.

Date: Tuesday, 12 May 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Viewpoint-Regulators-adapt-to-an-unprecedented-cha

The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented demand for personal protective equipment (PPE), part of which must be sterile, i.e. exempt from any microorganism such as bacteria or moulds that can compromise the wearer’s or the patient's safety. It was realised that whilst irradiation is routinely used to sterilise medical products it might also be possible to use the technology to increase the available supply of PPE, writes Paul Wynne, chairman of the International Irradiation Association.

Date: Wednesday, 06 May 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Viewpoint-Using-irradiation-to-treat-PPE