International Atomic Energy Agency

IAEA Board of Governors meeting, Vienna.

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is a "spin-off"(??) organization from the United Nations. It was created as an autonomous (self-governing) organization on July 29, 1957. The organization is intended to monitor and promote the peaceful and safe^[1] use of nuclear energy with protection from harmful radiation and, also, to prevent the use of this energy to build nuclear weapons.^[2] The current Director General of the agency is Rafael Grossi since 2019.

International Atomic Energy Agency and its former Director General, Mohamed ElBaradei, were both awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on 7 October 2005 for their role in trying to prevent the invasion of Iraq by a US-led coalition of troops. "for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way."

The IAEA has its headquarters in Vienna, Austria. Additional facilities are in Seibersdorf (near Vienna), Monaco, Toronto, and Tokyo.

Directors General


Name	Nationality	Duration	Duration (years)
W. Sterling Cole	American	1 December 1957 – 30 November 1961	4
Sigvard Eklund	Swedish	1 December 1961 – 30 November 1981	20
Hans Blix	Swedish	1 December 1981 – 30 November 1997	16
Mohamed ElBaradei	Egyptian	1 December 1997 – 30 November 2009	12
Yukiya Amano	Japanese	1 December 2009 – 18 July 2019	9
Cornel Feruță (Acting)	Romanian	25 July 2019 – 2 December 2019	0.33
Rafael Grossi	Argentine	3 December 2019 – present	6

International Atomic Energy Agency Media

Vienna International Center, location of IAEA Headquarters
IAEA car in Dnipro, Ukraine
The inspection team, led by Director-General Rafael Grossi, Head of the Department of Nuclear Safety and Security Lydie Evrard and Head of the Department of Safeguards Massimo Aparo, that on 1 September 2022 started IAEA's first inspection of a nuclear plant in a war zone, at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine
A laboratory technician at the IAEA's Plant Breeding Unit in Seibersdorf checking on a phial containing a young banana plant
"UNO City" another name for the Vienna office complex in which is located IAEA Headquarters
Member states* Observer states* Membership withdrawn* Non-members
Latin American IAEA Fellows at the Regional Training Course on Mutation Breeding and Efficiency Enhancing Techniques for Resistance to Banana Fusarium Wilt TR4, 2022
IAEA experts at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Unit 4

References

↑ 'Japan govt not in control, IAEA can do nothing, people right to panic'
↑ "IAEA.org - International Atomic Energy Agency". Archived from the original on 2010-02-01. Retrieved 2020-09-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[1] 'Japan govt not in control, IAEA can do nothing, people right to panic'

[2] "IAEA.org - International Atomic Energy Agency". Archived from the original on 2010-02-01. Retrieved 2020-09-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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