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Kwaku Aning, Deputy Director General (DDG) paid an official visit to Chile on 22 – 23 August 2013. During his trip, the DDG visited a number of partner institutions with whom the IAEA works under its technical cooperation (TC) programme.

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10 December 2013

DDG-TC Official Visit to Chile

Environmental monitoring is essential for public safety and protection.
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By monitoring environmental radionuclides, countries can enhance their understanding of air, land and water and their ability to manage and protect these valuable resources.

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2 December 2013

Environmental Monitoring: Training Specialists in Harmonized Sampling Methods at the IAEA Laboratories

The IAEA technical cooperation (TC) programme is the main mechanism through which the IAEA delivers services to its Member States. Through the programme, the IAEA helps Member States to build, strengthen and maintain capacities in the safe, peaceful and secure use of nuclear technology in support of sustainable socioeconomic development. The TC programme provides the necessary skills and equipment to its Member States through training courses, expert missions, fellowships, scientific visits, and many other activities.

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28 November 2013

IAEA Technical Cooperation Programme: Building Capacities in the Peaceful Use of Nuclear Technology

The IAEA, through its Joint Division with the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization and its Technical Cooperation programme, supports 14 African countries in their efforts to combat the tsetse fly using the Sterile Insect Technique. One of these countries is Ethiopia. This photo essay focuses on the country's ongoing tsetse eradication project.

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4 November 2013

Eradicating Flies to Improve Lives - IAEA Helps Countries in Africa to Combat Tsetse Fly

Despite thorough efforts to prevent nuclear and radiological emergencies, we have to live with the fact that they can happen. The IAEA has published advice in the form of safety standards and guidance - developed in cooperation with the Agency's 159 Member States - that aim to prevent accidents but also outline how to best prepare for and respond to them to reduce the harm they could cause. The Agency also holds meetings and conducts exercises and Workshops to strengthen these preparedness and response efforts. The Agency expert in this photo inspected the damage to Reactor Unit 3 at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in May 2011, just months after a large earthquake caused a tsunami that swept over the plant, causing severe damage.

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28 October 2013

Be Prepared

Scientific evidence has shown that exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of a childa€?s life is the best and healthiest way to feed newborns. <br /><br />(Photo: Mother and child right after a feeding).

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11 October 2013

It's Better for Babies - Nuclear Techniques Help Guide Global Efforts to Increase Breastfeeding

Thirty-six percent of Moroccan women of childbearing age (18-35) have iron deficiency anaemia.

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11 October 2013

Combatting Iron Deficiency in Morocco

Not having enough to eat is what we often think of as 'malnutrition'. But eating too much, of the wrong thing, and remaining mostly sedentary, leads to malnutrition of a different sort - obesity.<br /><br />
(Photo: S. Henriques/IAEA).

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11 October 2013

Eat. Play. Go! Using Nuclear Science to Tackle Obesity

On 16 – 20 September 2013, diplomats, experts and officials gathered in Vienna for the IAEA’s 57th General Conference (GC) to discuss the IAEA’s programme and activities and decide on a wide range of issues. Many events concerning the IAEA's technical cooperation (TC) programme and its projects took place during the Conference. Click through to see the highlights >>

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7 October 2013

Technical Cooperation Highlights - IAEA's 57th General Conference

In more than a dozen countries, irradiated natural polymers are being used to create products that improve medicine, industry, environmental protection, cosmetics and agriculture.

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25 September 2013

Starch, Seaweed and Shrimp Shells - Gifts to Agriculture

Yellow metal capsules containing sealed radioactive sources.

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6 September 2013

Cradle-to-Grave: Managing Disused Sealed Radioactive Sources in the Mediterranean Region

Radiation processing is used to break chemical bonds and create new ones.

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16 August 2013

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DDG-TC Official Visit to Chile

Environmental Monitoring: Training Specialists in Harmonized Sampling Methods at the IAEA Laboratories

IAEA Technical Cooperation Programme: Building Capacities in the Peaceful Use of Nuclear Technology

Eradicating Flies to Improve Lives - IAEA Helps Countries in Africa to Combat Tsetse Fly

Be Prepared

It's Better for Babies - Nuclear Techniques Help Guide Global Efforts to Increase Breastfeeding

Combatting Iron Deficiency in Morocco

Eat. Play. Go! Using Nuclear Science to Tackle Obesity

Technical Cooperation Highlights - IAEA's 57th General Conference

Starch, Seaweed and Shrimp Shells - Gifts to Agriculture

Cradle-to-Grave: Managing Disused Sealed Radioactive Sources in the Mediterranean Region

Save Money, Water, the Environment - Benefits of Natural Polymers

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