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- Managing Human Resources in the Nuclear Power Industry: Lessons Learned
- The objectives of this report are to: make middle and senior level NPP operating organization managers aware of the most significant issues in the industry with respect to managing human resources, provide typical symptoms for each of these issues, which may indicate significant performance problems and to assist in the...
- Tags: Performance management, International Atomic Energy Agency, Human Resources, nuclear energy, performance, industry
- White papers 2003-08-01
- Capacity Building for Sustainable Energy Development
- Today, approximately one third of the world's population lack access to modern energy services. Poverty eradication and sustainable development will require not just access, but also clean and affordable energy services. Expanding access to such services requires careful planning. The International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA helps developing countries and economies...
- Tags: International Atomic Energy Agency, sustainable development, developing country, agency
- White papers 2002-08-26
- International Atomic Energy Agency: Indicators for Sustainable Energy Development
- Energy is essential to economic and social development and improved quality of life. However, much of the world's energy is currently produced and used in ways that may not be sustainable in the long term. In order to assess progress towards a sustainable energy future, energy indicators that can measure...
- Tags: International Atomic Energy Agency, database, monitor
- White papers 2002-08-26
- Nuclear Power and Sustainable Development
- A central goal of sustainable development is to maintain or increase the overall assets (natural, man-made and human or social assets) available to future generations, while minimizing consumption of finite resources and not exceeding the carrying capacities of ecosystems. The development of nuclear power broadens the natural resource base usable...
- Tags: International Atomic Energy Agency, nuclear energy, sustainable development, asset, financial
- White papers 2002-08-08
Additional Resources
- Statement by the President
- WASHINGTON -- Forty years ago today, the United States joined 61 other nations in signing the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons NPT. Today, almost all nations are party to the Treaty. The NPT represents a key legal barrier to nuclear weapons proliferation and makes a critical contribution to...
- Articles 2008-07-01
- A reminder of lost opportunities
- LEADING ARTICLE North Korea's on-off detente with the rest of the world has suddenly entered a new "on" phase. In the past 48 hours, Pyongyang has surrendered details of its nuclear programme to the International Atomic Energy Agency, heard President Bush announce North Korea's removal from the...
- Articles 2008-06-28
- Canada, Jordan sign nuclear co-operation deal
- AMMAN AFP — Canada has signed a nuclear energy cooperation memorandum with Jordan, the official Petra news agency said on Saturday, as Amman struggles to find alternate power sources. "Canada will help Jordan prepare economic feasibility studies to examine the possibility of introducing the CANDU energy reactor into...
- Articles 2008-06-28
- G8 urges Iran to suspend enrichment
- KYOTO AFP — Group of Eight foreign ministers urged Iran on Friday to suspend uranium enrichment and "act in a more responsible and constructive manner in the region," a call dismissed in Tehran as double-speak. The industrial powers -- Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the...
- Articles 2008-06-27
- Syrian nuclear probe off to 'good start': IAEA chief inspector
- VIENNA AFP — The UN nuclear watchdog's probe into an alleged covert nuclear facility in the Syrian desert has gotten off to "a good start," a top official said on Wednesday. "It was a good start, but there's still work that remains to be done," Olli Heinonen, deputy...
- Articles 2008-06-25
- Nuke materials too accessible
- There have been 1,300 nuclear-smuggling related incidents in the past 15 years, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Among those incidents, 19 involved sufficient amounts of weapons- grade uranium or plutonium to fuel either a traditional nuclear warhead or to upgrade a conventional explosive to a device that disperses...
- Articles 2008-06-23
- Syria keeps silent over UN nuclear inspectors
- DAMASCUS AFP — The Syrian authorities kept silent on Monday about a visit by UN nuclear experts to inspect a mysterious site bombed by Israel last year, with no official announcement a day after the team's arrival. There was no acknowledgement in the state-owned media that the inspectors...
- Articles 2008-06-23
- Syria, NKorea helped Iran develop nuclear programme: German report
- BERLIN AFP — Damascus and Pyongyang helped Iran to develop its nuclear programme through the construction of a suspected nuclear site in Syria that Israel destroyed last September, Der Spiegel reported. But the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is considering withdrawing his support for the Iranian programme, added the...
- Articles 2008-06-21
- 'Ball of fire' if Iran attacked: IAEA chief
- DUBAI AFP — The UN atomic watchdog chief warned on Saturday that an attack on Iran over its controversial nuclear programme would turn the region into a fireball, as Tehran rejected any Israeli strike as "impossible." Mohamed ElBaradei also warned that he would not be able to continue...
- Articles 2008-06-21
- UN nuclear team to inspect bombed Syria desert site
- DAMASCUS AFP — Top-level UN atomic experts on Sunday begin a three-day visit to Syria to inspect a mysterious site bombed by Israel last year amid US allegations it was a nuclear facility. International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA deputy chief Olli Heinonen will head the team due to...
- Articles 2008-06-21
- Extremist groups continue to seek nuclear weapons: US official
- MADRID AFP — Extremist groups continue to actively seek nuclear weapons, a senior US official said Tuesday during a meeting in Spain of a US-Russian initiative to fight nuclear terrorism. "Combating nuclear terrorism is especially important today," US Undersecretary of State for Arms Control John Rood told a...
- Articles 2008-06-17
- Fourth meeting of US-Russian initiative against nuclear terrorism
- MADRID AFP — Representatives of 55 countries gathered in Madrid Tuesday as part of the US-Russian initiative to fight nuclear terrorism, the Spanish government said. Among those attending the closed-door meeting were Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Kislyak and US Undersecretary of State for Arms Control John Rood,...
- Articles 2008-06-17
- Eight points about Iran's nuclear program
- 1. The U.S. government's National Intelligence Estimate reported in November 2007 that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in the fall of 2003. Iran is developing the capacity to enrich uranium, as it is entitled to do under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. International inspectors have found no evidence of an...
- Articles 2008-06-17
- Iran says will 'never' suspend enrichment: report
- TEHRAN AFP — Iran said it will "never" suspend its enrichment of uranium, in defiance of demands from world powers to suspend the sensitive nuclear activity, the official IRNA agency reported. "The United States and their allies want to oblige Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment in an...
- Articles 2008-06-17
- Tougher sanctions on Iran are embraced
- KRANJ, Slovenia -- President Bush and European allies on Tuesday threatened tougher sanctions to squeeze Iran's finances and derail its potential pursuit of a nuclear weapon. Bush said the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran would endanger world peace. "They can either face isolation, or they can have...
- Articles 2008-06-11
- Iran warns IAEA against playing for time
- TEHRAN AFP — Iran's powerful parliament speaker Ali Larijani warned the UN nuclear watchdog on Saturday against playing for time in a dispute over Iran's controversial atomic programme. Iran came under heavy fire at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency this week for failing to come...
- Articles 2008-06-07
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