... closer to resuming talks on more difficult and fundamental issues.
A special place in the set of significant “small steps” is taken by efforts to ensure safety and security of the Zaporozhye NPP. The resolution on this issue recently adopted by the IAEA Board of Governors
was met with much criticism in Moscow
since the document has no mention of the fact that the plant was shelled by the Ukrainian military. Clearly, the final decision cannot be made at the level of the IAEA and will require the ...
... international high-level expert round table, dedicated to the trends in the development of world politics in the context of acute recent crises.
The session addressed the situation around the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station, the latest report of the IAEA, as well as the recent discussion on this issue in the UN Security Council. The participants agreed that reaching an agreement on the safety of the Zaporizhzhia NPS could be a starting point for resuming negotiations on more general issues of the ...
... radioactive materials such as enriched uranium or plutonium.
What can we do to prevent the risk of nuclear terrorism? Which measures are the most effective?
Some measures have already been adopted in the framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) or as a result of the Nuclear Security Summits launched by President Obama between 2010 and 2016. In countries possessing nuclear weapons, there should be strengthened standards to reduce the nuclear risk, including by preventing any unauthorized ...
... already made significant concessions by voluntarily curtailing its sovereign right to develop a nuclear sector. Under the provisions of the nuclear deal, Iran undertook both to limit the pace of producing enriched uranium and plutonium and to grant IAEA officers broad access to its nuclear facilities. On the whole, Iran perceived these steps as a concession in the name of peace and the country’s economic prosperity. Donald Trump, on the contrary, views the Iran deal as a giant misstep by the Obama ...
... other. On its own, the JCPOA creates an effective system for preventing non-nuclear powers from developing nuclear weapons. This is achieved through significantly limiting the level of uranium enrichment, restricting plutonium production, and giving IAEA experts sweeping rights in terms of monitoring and inspections. The main drawback of the Iranian deal is its limited scope. Iran might agree to it being in place indefinitely, but only on the condition that its provisions are scaled up to the global ...
... development of nuclear capabilities for civilian use. This is corroborated by Moscow’s projects to build nuclear power plants (NPP) across the world, including in the Middle East. In particular, Russia took part in building the region’s first NPP, to the IAEA’s requirements, in the Iranian city of Bushehr [
26
]. More nuclear power units are expected to be built in the country. Russia’s state-owned corporation Rosatom has also begun building the Akkuyu NPP in Turkey and the El Dabaa NPP in Egypt. ...
... first glance, it appeared to be completely ineffective. The resolution obliged Iran to cease all work related to the enrichment and processing of radioactive materials, including for the purposes of research. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was tasked with providing exhaustive information on the state of Iranian developments in the area. The resolution did not impose any sanctions on Iran, although it did warn that it had the authority to do so under Chapter VII, Article 42 of the ...
... has become a world leader in denuclearization. It is a champion of nuclear nonproliferation on the multilateral circuit, active in the implementation of several denuclearization treaties, and is currently International Atomic Energy Association’s (IAEA)
favored partner
. The IAEA even
chose Kazakhstan
as the site of the world’s first Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) Bank, a brilliant initiative that ensures all IAEA member states have access to LEU for peaceful purposes, without risking further proliferation ...
On October 19 Hans Blix, Swedish diplomat and politician, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (1978-1979), Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA, 1981-1997), Head of the United Nations monitoring, verification and inspection commission (UNMOVIC), inspecting Iraq weapons (2000-2003), visited Russian International Affairs Council.
On October 19 Hans Blix, Swedish diplomat and politician, ...
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Interviewer:
Maria Prosviryakova
, RIAC
July 3, 2012
In June 2012 a
Center for International Governance Innovation
(CIGI) Senior Fellow Trevor Findlay released a long-waited report,
Unleashing the Nuclear Watchdog: Strengthening and Reform of the IAEA
.
A phone interview with Professor Trevor Findlay on key findings of his report. The speaker discusses the role that the IAEA plays in the world, the problems it is facing now, the challenges that will shape the Agency’s future, and about Russia ...
