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IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano addresses the Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety

UN meeting on atomic energy urges stronger, effective nuclear safety standards

20 June 2011
A conference held by the United Nations atomic energy agency today called for stronger national and international measures to ensure the highest and most effective levels of nuclear safety in the wake of the accident at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi power plant three months ago.
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano addresses the Board of Governors

Syria ‘very likely’ had an unreported nuclear plant, UN agency chief says

6 June 2011
The head of the United Nations atomic energy agency said today that “it is very likely” that a building destroyed in Syria in 2007 was a nuclear reactor, and there are indications that ‘seem to point to the existence of possible military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear programme.”