Michal Merxbauer, Deputy Chairman, State Office for Nuclear Safety, and Hua Liu, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Technical Cooperation, signed The Czech Republic’s Country Programme Framework (CPF) for the period of 2022–2027 on 23 September. A CPF is the frame of reference for the medium-term planning of technical cooperation between a Member State and the IAEA and identifies priority areas where the transfer of nuclear technology and technical cooperation resources will be directed to support national development goals.
The Czech Republic has been an IAEA Member State since 1993, but the former Czechoslovakia was one of the founders of the IAEA in 1957. Its 2022–2027 CPF identifies the following priority areas:
- Nuclear and radiation safety and security
- Nuclear power safety
- Emergency preparedness and response
- Radioactive waste management and environmental monitoring
- Medical radiation physics and QA/QC and
- Sustainability of nuclear institutions and nuclear knowledge management.
