The IAEA has its headquarters in Vienna, Austria.

The IAEA has two " Regional Safeguards Offices " which are located in Toronto, Canada, and in Tokyo, Japan.

The IAEA also has two liaison offices which are located in New York City, United States, and in Geneva, Switzerland.

In addition, the IAEA has three laboratories located in Vienna and Seibersdorf, Austria, and in Monaco.

The IAEA has three main bodies: the Board of Governors, the General Conference, and the Secretariat.

In December 2011, nine months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the IAEA has yet to dedicate additional money to improve reactor safety.

He has accused the IAEA and corporations of " wilfully ignoring lessons from the world's worst nuclear accident 25 years ago to protect the industry's expansion ".

The IAEA ’ s role " as an advocate for nuclear power has made it a target for protests ".

The journal Nature has reported that the IAEA response to the Fukushima I nuclear accidents in Japan was " sluggish and sometimes confusing ", drawing calls for the agency to " take a more proactive role in nuclear safety ".

The journal Nature has reported that " the world must strengthen the ability of the International Atomic Energy Agency to make independent assessments of nuclear safety " and that " the public would be better served by an IAEA more able to deliver frank and independent assessments of nuclear crises as they unfold ".

The IAEA has 154 member states.

The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization ( FAO ) has passed a motion to commit member states to implement irradiation technology for their national phytosanitary programs ; the General assembly of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) has urged wider use of the irradiation technology.

In April 2009, reports surfaced that North Korea has become a " fully fledged nuclear power ", an opinion shared by IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei.

North Korea has since barred IAEA inspectors from the Yongbyon site, and the South has claimed that the North is pushing for the manufacture of a nuclear warhead.

The IAEA report by Mohamed El Baradei stated that Iraq " has provided the necessary level of cooperation to enable ... activities to be completed efficiently and effectively ".

* U. N. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei reiterates a statement he made on March 31 that only the UN IAEA has a mandate to search out and destroy any nuclear weapons or parts of a nuclear weapons program found in Iraq.

ElBaradei says, " Based on thorough analysis, the IAEA has concluded ... that these documents, which formed the basis for the reports of recent uranium transactions between Iraq and Niger, are in fact not authentic.

Iran has enriched uranium to 3. 5 percent under IAEA monitoring.

India has also built a number of reactors, not under IAEA safeguards, that were derived from the CANDU design and are used for power generation.

After the IAEA Board of Governors reported Iran's noncompliance with its safeguards agreement to the UN Security Council, the Council demanded that Iran suspend its nuclear enrichment activities while Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has argued that the sanctions are " illegal ," imposed by " arrogant powers ," and that Iran has decided to pursue the monitoring of its self-described peaceful nuclear program through " its appropriate legal path ," the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The IAEA was established as an autonomous organization on 29 July 1957.

Though established independently of the United Nations through its own international treaty, the IAEA Statute, the IAEA reports to both the UN General Assembly and Security Council.

To enhance the sharing of information and experience among IAEA Member States concerning the seismic safety of nuclear facilities, in 2008 the IAEA established the International Seismic Safety Center.

Angarsk is also the site for a Nuclear Fuel Bank, following a decision by the IAEA in November 2009 ; working with Russia, IAEA established this bank to supply market priced fuel to member states as protection against possible supply disruptions.

The IAEA has also established programs to assist nuclear energy projects in developing countries.

The programs of the IAEA encourage the development of the peaceful applications of nuclear technology, provide international safeguards against misuse of nuclear technology and nuclear materials, and promote nuclear safety ( including radiation protection ) and nuclear security standards and their implementation.

The controversy over Iran's nuclear programs centers in particular on Iran's failure to declare sensitive enrichment and reprocessing activities to the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ).

After the IAEA Board of Governors reported Iran's noncompliance with its safeguards agreement to the United Nations Security Council, the Council demanded that Iran suspend its enrichment programs.

For these reasons, various nongovernmental and international organizations, including the IAEA, are supporting development programs involving farming of the Black Bengal goat, viewing it as a way to help alleviate poverty.

In August 2004, South Korea revealed the extent of its highly secretive and sensitive nuclear research programs to the IAEA, including some experiments which were conducted without the obligatory reporting to the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) called for by South Korea's safeguards agreement.

* The DPRK committed to abandoning all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs and returning, at an early date, to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and to IAEA safeguards.

The IAEA is raising money to help efforts by its Member States to save lives and to reduce suffering of cancer victims.

The Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications focuses on the use of non-power nuclear and isotope techniques to help IAEA Member States in the areas of water, energy, health, biodiversity, and agriculture.

In June 2011, the IAEA chief said he had " broad support for his plan to strengthen international safety checks on nuclear power plants to help avoid any repeat of Japan's Fukushima crisis ".

The IAEA executes this mission with three main functions: the inspection of existing nuclear facilities to ensure their peaceful use, providing information and developing standards to ensure the safety and security of nuclear facilities, and as a hub for the various fields of science involved in the peaceful applications of nuclear technology.

* The International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ), the United Nations nuclear agency, finds undeclared components in Iran compatible with advanced uranium centrifuge designs, increasing Western concerns that it may be developing nuclear weapons.

In November 2011, the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) Board of Governors rebuked Iran following an IAEA report detailing how Iran had undertaken research and experiments geared to developing a nuclear weapons capability.

* Incident Reporting System of the IAEA / NEA, where participating countries can exchange operational experience on nuclear power plants.

The IAEA reports that roughly 60 countries are considering how to include nuclear power in their energy plans.

A summary of the amounts of radioactive wastes and management approaches for most developed countries are presented and reviewed periodically as part of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management.

During this visit, Jamali gave valuable advises to Iranian leadership on their nuclear programme " against the backdrop of the country's " negotiations with the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ), and measures to strengthen economic relations between the two countries.

The definition of low level waste is set by the nuclear regulators of individual countries, though the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) provides recommendations.