Media advisories

IAEA Conference to Review Protection for Growing Number of Workers Exposed to Radiation

Measures to better protect men and women whose work exposes them to radiation will be the focus of an international conference to be held from 1 to 5 December 2014 at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna.

Making Food Safer and Fighting Food Fraud With Nuclear Techniques

The increasing use of nuclear techniques to make food safer, to detect unsafe food and to fight food fraud - the deliberate mislabelling of food products - will be discussed at an international symposium to be held 10-13 November 2014 at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna.

IAEA Conference to Discuss Challenges Faced by Organizations Supporting Nuclear Operations

A conference organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Beijing from 27 to 31 October 2014 will focus on challenges faced by technical and scientific support organizations (TSOs) in providing assistance for nuclear and radiation safety and security to regulators and operators. The event aims to assess and review ways to further improve the effectiveness of TSOs, also taking into account lessons learned from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident.

IAEA Conference on Fusion Energy to Start 13 October 2014 in St. Petersburg, Russia

St. Petersburg -- The 25th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2014) will be held from 13 to 18 October 2014 in Saint Petersburg, the Russian Federation.

The event, hosted by the Government of the Russian Federation through the Rosatom Nuclear Energy State Corporation, provides a forum for the discussion of key physics and technology issues as well as innovative concepts of direct relevance to fusion as a source of nuclear energy. The Conference is the world's largest conference in the field of nuclear fusion.