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.

The IAEA has established programs to help developing countries in planning to build systematically the capability to manage a nuclear power program, including the Integrated Nuclear Infrastructure Group, which has carried out Integrated Nuclear Infrastructure Review missions in Indonesia, Jordan, Thailand and Vietnam.

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 International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) is an international organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons.

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.

The IAEA and its former Director General, Mohamed ElBaradei, were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded on October 7, 2005.

Beginning in 1986, in response to the nuclear reactor explosion and disaster near Chernobyl, Ukraine, the IAEA redoubled its efforts in the field of nuclear safety.

Both the IAEA and its former Director General, Mr. ElBaradei, were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.

Unlike most other specialized international agencies, the IAEA does much of its work with the Security Council, and not with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

The structure and functions of the IAEA are defined by its founding document, the IAEA Statute ( see below ).

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

The Board, in its five yearly meetings, is responsible for making most of the policy of the IAEA.

Article II of the IAEA Statute defines the Agency's twin objectives as promoting peaceful uses of atomic energy and "< nowiki > ensur </ nowiki >, so far as it is able, that assistance provided by it or at its request or under its supervision or control is not used in such a way as to further any military purpose.

" To do this, the IAEA is authorized in Article III. A. 5 of the Statute " to establish and administer safeguards designed to ensure that special fissionable and other materials, services, equipment, facilities, and information made available by the Agency or at its request or under its supervision or control are not used in such a way as to further any military purpose ; and to apply safeguards, at the request of the parties, to any bilateral or multilateral arrangement, or at the request of a State, to any of that State's activities in the field of atomic energy.

The IAEA classifies safety as one of its top three priorities, yet is spending only 8. 9 percent of its 352 million-euro ($ 469 million ) regular budget in 2011 on making plants secure from accidents.

The IAEA itself says that, beginning in 1986, in response to the nuclear reactor explosion and disaster near Chernobyl, Ukraine, the IAEA redoubled its efforts in the field of nuclear safety.

If the Board recommends approval, and the General Conference approves the application for membership, the State must then submit its instrument of acceptance of the IAEA Statute to the United States, which functions as the depositary Government for the IAEA Statute.

Japan strongly supports the U. S. in its efforts to encourage Pyongyang to abide by the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and its agreements with the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ).

Jordan is an active member of the UN and several of its specialized and related agencies, including the Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ), International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ), and World Health Organization ( WHO ).

IAEA headquarters since 1979, Vienna, Austria

IAEA headquarters

On 13 December 1991, they signed the Quadripartite agreement, at the IAEA headquarters, creating the Brazilian – Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials and allowing fullscope IAEA safeguards of Argentine and Brazilian nuclear installations.

Ironically, the headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency is located in Vienna, and the IAEA maintains nuclear laboratories both in Vienna and Seibersdorf.

The building was rented out to the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ), which used it as its headquarters until 1979, when it moved to the Vienna International Centre.