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7 July 2025
Call for Papers: Conference on Transport of Nuclear and Radioactive Material
Interested contributors have until 15 September 2025 to submit synopses for the IAEA’s International Conference on the Safe and Secure Transport of Nuclear and Radioactive Material. Read more →
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4 July 2025
Update 300 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine
Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) lost all off-site power for several hours today, once again underlining the extremely fragile nuclear safety situation at the site, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said today. Read more →
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2 July 2025
Nuclear Energy Education Gets a Boost from the IAEA
The IAEA has launched a new advisory service to develop the education programmes needed for safe and sustainable nuclear power, as well as other types of nuclear science and technology. Read more →
Press Release
1 July 2025
Update 299 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine
The IAEA team based at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has been informed of a drone attack that damaged several vehicles near the site’s cooling pond last week, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said today. Read more →
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1 July 2025
IAEA Holds Rays of Hope Forum To Increase Access to Cancer Care
Cancer remains one of the leading causes of death on the continent, claiming around 2,000 lives every day. Three years ago, to close the global cancer care gap, we launched the IAEA’s #RaysOfHope initiative at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa. Today, we returned to take stock: Read more →
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30 June 2025
Rays of Hope Forum: Bringing Hope in Africa and Beyond
Cancer patients around the world are being given better access to life-saving care thanks to support from the IAEA’s Rays of Hope initiative, participants at a Rays of Hope Forum heard. Read more →
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