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International Atomic ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Agency experts were told that security concerns meant they would not be going ahead with their planned access to the reactor rooftops at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on 19 December.

A record number of 31 disused sealed radioactive sources have been transferred from Chile to a recycling facility in Europe as part of an International Atomic ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Agency multi-regional project to enhance nuclear security and radiation safety.

The text of a speech delivered by ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Nuclear Association Director General Sama Bilbao y León to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on 8 December, considering the legacy of US President Dwight D Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace speech 70 years ago.

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant lost off-site power for the first time since May, and had to rely on emergency diesel generators for nearly five hours at the weekend, prompting renewed safety concerns amid the on-going war.

Twenty two countries have signed up to the goal of tripling global nuclear energy capacity by 2050, at the UN's COP28 climate change conference.

International Atomic ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Agency staff at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant say they heard what sounded like rockets "fired from a Multiple Launch Rocket System nearby" - it came on the same day the site lost connection to its main off-site power line.

An International Atomic ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Agency team of experts have reviewed operational safety at unit 4 of Russia's Beloyarsk nuclear power plant. It marks the first Operational Safety Review Team mission to a fast neutron reactor.

The International Atomic ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Agency says the fifth unit at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is switching from hot to cold shutdown to allow investigation of why boron had been detected in a cooling circuit.

An International Atomic ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Agency team of experts has completed a Safety Aspects of Long-Term Operation mission to units 1 and 2 of the Forsmark nuclear power plant in Sweden, which operator Vattenfall plans to operate for 60 years.

Romania is committed to maintaining and strengthening its regulatory framework for nuclear and radiation safety, an International Atomic ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Agency team of experts has concluded. However, the Integrated Regulatory Review Service mission team recommended improving the coordination among government agencies concerned with radiation source facilities and activities.

An International Atomic ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Agency team of experts has completed a follow-up nuclear security advisory mission to Switzerland. The International Physical Protection Advisory Service mission concluded Switzerland has strengthened its nuclear security regime since a mission in 2018.

The International Atomic ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Agency and the International Civil Aviation Organization have agreed to enhance their cooperation around the transport of radioactive materials by air. In particular, they aim to improve the efficiency and speed of these shipments.