In response to requests from several Member States expressing an interest in multinational disposal options, the IAEA produced in 1998 a technical document (TECDOC) outlining the important factors to be taken into account in the process of realizing such options. Currently the IAEA is reviewing the work done in the previous study, taking into account developments since its publication in 1998 a...

The International Project on Innovative Nuclear Reactors and Fuel Cycles (INPRO) [1] has a broad range of missions and activities. Initially concentrating on technological innovation, i.e. R&D, and a methodology to assess Innovative Nuclear Energy System (INS) against criteria for sustainability the focus of INPRO became broader over the years. INPRO and the IAEA cooperate with the Generation I...

Several national and international organizations have developed various types and levels of external audits for radiotherapy dosimetry, either based on on-site review visits or using mailed dosimetry systems. Three major TLD (thermoluminescent dosimetry) networks make available postal dose audits to a large number of radiotherapy centres on a regular basis. These are the IAEA/WHO TLD postal dos...

A marine certified reference material (CRM), IAEA-452, prepared with scallop (Pecten maximus) sample was recently produced by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and certified for trace elements and methyl mercury (MeHg). The Scallop (Pecten maximus) sample is commonly found and consumed seafood and is also used as bio-indicators for trace metal contamination in marine pollution studi...

Abstract For the analysis of individual micrometer- and submicrometer-sized particles collected by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards inspectors on swipe samples during in-field verification, well-defined microparticulate reference materials are requested IAEA for quality control measures. In laboratory Forschungszentrum Jülich, an aerosol-based process is established to produ...

In 1958 the United States of America offered two mobile radioisotope laboratories to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as gifts. For USA, supplying IAEA with gifts was not only cost doing business in new nuclear international setting Cold War, but also indispensable maintaining authority and keeping upper hand within regulation energy. The transformation a technoscientific artefact into...

The French Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) issued in 2012 a first version of doctrine establishing the principles management post-accidental situation following major nuclear accident. Since this publication, feedback Fukushima-Daiichi accident continued and numerous evolutions occurred, both European regulations international recommendations from IAEA ICRP. This had led to further developments ...

Symposium in Brazil I n January, several hundred nuclear medicine specialists from around the world came together in Porto Alegre, Brazil, for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) International Symposium on Nuclear Oncology, for which the SNM was a cosponsor and contributor of expert resources and logistic support. Held from January 19 through 23 in cooperation with the government of B...