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Seventy-six European leaders from 20 countries have called on the US Administration to preserve the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran. In a statement issued by the European Leadership Network think tank, they also urge the JCPOA's European signatories to make clear their continued support for the nuclear deal.

Yukiya Amano was appointed to serve another term as director general of the International Atomic ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Agency at its General Conference today. He took up the role in 2009 and is now to stay until late 2021.

Some 200,000 job-years of employment are created by each 1000 MWe of nuclear capacity constructed, according to a new study by the OECD Nuclear ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Agency (NEA) and the International Atomic ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Agency (IAEA).

As part of preparations for its exit from the European Union, the UK is establishing a domestic nuclear safeguards regime to ensure that it "continues to maintain its position as a responsible nuclear state and that withdrawal from Euratom will not result in the weakening of its future safeguards standards and oversight in the UK", Greg Clark, the UK secretary of state for Business, ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß and Industrial Strategy, announced yesterday.

Iran is continuing to implement its nuclear-related commitments, but the continuation and further development of North Korea's nuclear program are a cause for "grave concern", International Atomic ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Agency Director General Yukiya Amano told the agency's board of governors yesterday.

China maintains "strong and sustainable" nuclear security activities, an International Atomic ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß AgencyÌýteam of experts has concluded. The Vienna-based agency carried out a ten-day International Physical Protection Advisory Service mission at the Chinese government's request.

High-enriched uranium has been flown from Ghana back to China in the removal of all such material from the country. The Ghanaian research reactor has been converted to use low-enriched fuel instead.

The storage facility for a low-enriched uranium fuel bank was inaugurated today in a ceremony involving Nursultan Nazarbayev, the President of Kazakhstana and Yukiya Amano, the director general of the International Atomic ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Agency.

The International Atomic ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Agency said yesterday that, by the end of this year, it will have held Nuclear Power Human Resources Planning workshops for Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Jordan, Morocco, Sudan, Macedonia and Thailand. These events support the development of educational, vocational and training infrastructure among the Vienna-based agency's Member States.

The International Atomic ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Agency has concluded a five-day Site and External Events Design mission to South Korea. The SEED team reviewed methods and criteria for evaluating seismic safety at the Wolsong and Shin Wolsong nuclear power plants, which are operated by Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power.

Tokyo Electric Power Company has addressed many of the recommendations made following a 2015 assessment of operational safety at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant by the International Atomic ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Agency. However, the IAEA says work should continue in some areas.

The long-term potential of nuclear power remains high, according to the International Atomic ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Agency's latest high case projection, which sees global nuclear generating capacity increasing 123% by 2050 compared with its current level.