About the IAEA
The IAEA is the world's centre for cooperation in the nuclear field and seeks to promote the safe, secure and peaceful use of nuclear technologies.
The Republic of Gambia is making significant progress in laying the foundations for comprehensive cancer control, a team of experts from the IAEA, the World Health Organisation and the International Agency for Research on Cancer has found. Read more →
Ensuring food safety is crucial for protecting public health and facilitating trade in food products. For the past decade, the IAEA has supported Costa Rica in using nuclear techniques to detect food contaminants. Read more →
From protecting digital systems from cyber attacks to making sure that nuclear technology cannot get misused, nuclear security is more than about preventing nuclear terrorism. Read more →
The International Symposium on Food Safety and Control will bring together nearly 500 participants from 112 countries, uniting efforts to safeguard the food supply chain and strengthen its defence against threats to food security. Read more →
International security and governance experts have agreed on the importance of closer international collaboration in the field of nuclear security, at a high level event on the sidelines of the ongoing ICONS conference. Read more →
Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) temporarily lost the connection to its sole remaining 750 kilovolt (kV) off-site power line this afternoon due to a reported short-circuit, leaving it reliant on a single back-up line for more than three hours, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said today. Read more →
The IAEA is the world's centre for cooperation in the nuclear field and seeks to promote the safe, secure and peaceful use of nuclear technologies.