The IAEA is addressing some of today’s biggest global challenges, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi told delegates at the opening of the Agency’s 66th annual General Conference today.
“At the IAEA, we have the ability to mitigate some of these enormous challenges we are facing,” Mr Grossi said. The IAEA and its Member States are harnessing the benefits of nuclear science and technology to better prepare for the next zoonotic disease outbreak; to mitigate and adapt to climate change; to improve food and water security; to fight cancer; and to clean up the ocean.
The IAEA has also responded to emergencies with missions as different as those to Ukraine in efforts to prevent war from causing a nuclear accident and experts’ visits to Latin America to assist Andean nations in preventing Fusarium Wilt from decimating their economically critical banana crops.