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If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Nuclear power’s global expansion is projected to continue in the coming decades—albeit at a slowing pace—amid challenges including low fossil fuel prices, a sluggish world economy and the legacy of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi accident, according to an IAEA st

The IAEA Director General’s Report on the Fukushima Daiichi Accident, along with five technical volumes on this topic by international experts, have just been publicly released. This publication comes ahead of the Agency’s General Conference in September. The report assesses the causes and consequences of the 11 March 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, triggered b

Four years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident in Japan, the international nuclear community is gathering once again to discuss the lessons that have been learned, and explore avenues for the improvement of operational safety worldwide. Operational safety involves the proper running and maintenance of a nuclear power plant, as well as ensuring that all the workers and operator

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You are hereHomeNewsIAEA Director General Presents Fukushima Report and Submits Agreements on Uranium Fuel Bank for Board Approval IAEA Director General Presents Fukushima Report and Submits Agreements on Uranium Fuel Bank for Board Approval

An IAEA school currently under way in Japan serves as an effective response tool to overcome one of the major challenges in the nuclear sector: Bridging the gap of management experience and knowledge between the industry’s veterans and the professionals who will succeed them. Coming from 14 countries, 34 promising young professionals are the latest batch of potential nuclear leaders trained at the

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Vienna – The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today provided its Member States with a report by Director General Yukiya Amano on the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, as part of continuous efforts to strengthen nuclear safety w

Radiological monitoring and environmental sampling are some of the most important activities responders would need to engage in during and immediately after a nuclear or radiological emergency to achieve their most important task: protecting the public. And so these were the main areas of focus of an international workshop conducted in in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, last week. The workshop, held

You are hereHomeVideosFukushima Decommissioning Mission: A Report from the Team Leader If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more.

IAEA decommissioning team leader Juan Carlos Lentijo (right) peers into the Common Spent Fuel Pool at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station during a November 2013 IAEA expert review of Japanese efforts to decommission the damaged nuclear power plant. (Photo: G. Webb/IAEA) Decommissioning experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today started a mission to review Japan's plan