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Werner Burkart inaugurates gamma camera lab

UN atomic agency provides training in live-saving medical technologies

25 May 2007
The United Nations nuclear watchdog agency has launched a new laboratory in Austria to train medical professionals from developing countries to use high-tech technologies to save lives.
Mohamed ElBaradei briefing the press

UN nuclear watchdog again urges ‘timeout’ by both sides on Iran’s nuclear programme

6 March 2007
The head of the United Nations atomic watchdog agency has again called for a “timeout” on the Iranian nuclear issue to allow for talks, with Iran suspending uranium enrichment and the international community suspending sanctions over a programme that Tehran says is for producing energy but which critics maintain is for making nuclear weapons.
Dr. ElBaradei

UN atomic watchdog agency reports stalemate over Iran’s nuclear programme

5 March 2007
Lacking “the necessary level of transparency and cooperation,” the United Nations atomic watchdog agency reiterated yet again today that it could not provide assurances that Iran’s nuclear programme is solely for the peaceful purpose of generating energy and not for producing nuclear bombs.

Red triangle with skull and crossbones is for danger – new UN radiation symbol

15 February 2007
A skull and crossbones, a running person and radiating ionizing waves, all on a deep red triangle, joined other more common warning symbols today as part of a United Nations effort to reduce needless deaths and serious injuries from accidental exposure to large radioactive sources such as food irradiation and cancer therapy equipment.
Vehicle-mounted radiation detector, Rep. of Georgia

UN atomic watchdog agency reports cases of illegal trafficking in nuclear materials

1 February 2007
The United Nations atomic watchdog agency, whose tasks include pre-empting nuclear and radiological terrorism and preventing proliferation, today reported 149 confirmed incidents of illicit trafficking and other unauthorized activities involving nuclear and radioactive materials in 2006.
Dr. ElBaradei

UN nuclear watchdog proposes ‘timeout’ by both sides on Iran’s nuclear programme

29 January 2007
The head of the United Nations atomic watchdog agency is calling for a “timeout” on the Iranian nuclear issue, with Iran suspending uranium enrichment and the international community suspending sanctions over a programme that Tehran says is for producing energy but which others maintain is for making nuclear weapons.
Vinca's shutdown research reactor

UN-backed efforts to upgrade nuclear safety move ahead with Serbian clean-up

6 October 2006
As part of its multi-national efforts to upgrade nuclear safety and security at the world´s research reactors, the United Nations atomic watchdog agency has concluded a $4.3 million contract to rid a Serbian reactor site of old ‘spent’ nuclear fuel that is posing a serious radiological hazard.
Reducing the uses of highly enriched uranium

To counter nuclear terrorism, UN urges phasing out civilian use of high enriched uranium

19 June 2006
Amid clear signs that terrorists are trying to acquire nuclear material through criminal networks, the head of the United Nations atomic watchdog agency today called for urgent and more coherent global action to minimize the uses of and commerce in high enriched uranium (HEU), a main ingredient in nuclear weapons production.

After US offer of talks, UN atomic watchdog urges Iran to suspend nuclear activities

1 June 2006
The United Nations atomic watchdog agency has again called on Iran to suspend uranium enrichment-related and reprocessing activities, the condition set by the United States for joining in talks with the Islamic Republic aimed at ensuring that its nuclear programme is solely for peaceful purposes.

UN nuclear chief’s recipe for safer world: development not weapons

26 May 2006
As the world reaches a fork in the road over nuclear weapons, it is up to the new generation to develop an alternative system of collective security based not on the build-up of armaments but on addressing root causes of insecurity ranging from poverty and repression to unresolved conflicts, according to the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).