Brazil's enrichment technology development, and the plant itself, involved substantial discussions with the IAEA and its constituent nations.

The IAEA says that the same happened after the Fukushima disaster in Fukushima, Japan.

But Russian nuclear accident specialist Iouli Andreev is critical of the response to Fukushima, and says that the IAEA did not learn from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

There are several problems with the IAEA says Najmedin Meshkati of University of Southern California:

* Iraq signs a " Memorandum of Understanding " with the UN, which says that the country will accept all relevant Security Council resolutions, cooperate fully with UNSCOM and the IAEA, and will grant UNSCOM and the IAEA immediate, unconditional and unrestricted access for their inspections.

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.

A 2003 publication by the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) provides a detailed description of tracer use, confirms the frequent use of most of the tracers above, and says that Manganese-56, Sodium-24, Technetium-m, Silver-m, Argon-41, and Xenon-133 are also used extensively because they are easily identified and measured.

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.

Another significant event during his time as head of the IAEA was the Chernobyl disaster on 26 April 1986, a nuclear accident rated at the highest level 7 on the IAEA's International Nuclear Event Scale.

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 ".

In response to diminishing Iraqi cooperation with UNSCOM, the United States called for withdrawal of all UN and IAEA inspectors in 1998, resulting in Operation Desert Fox.

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

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.

The IAEA serves as an intergovernmental forum for scientific and technical cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear technology and nuclear power worldwide.

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 IAEA exists to pursue the " safe, secure and peaceful uses of nuclear sciences and technology " ( Pillars 2005 ).

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 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.

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

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.

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

In 1978, the EC, Japan, USA and USSR joined in the International Tokamak Reactor ( INTOR ) Workshop, under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ), to assess the readiness of magnetic fusion to move forward to the experimental power reactor ( EPR ) stage, to identify the additional R & D that must be undertaken and to define the characteristics of such an EPR by means of a conceptual design.

* The decommissioning of commercial magnox gas cooled reactor power stations in the United Kingdom, G. Holt, Magnox Electric, IAEA meeting paper, 8 – 10 September 1997

The next day, IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei announced the UN's confirmation that the reactor had been shut down.

Unlike the nuclear reactor at Dimona, where Israel refuses to allow any IAEA inspections, the reactor at Nahal Sorek is inspected by IAEA twice a year.

The PARR-II reactor was built and provided by PAEC under the IAEA safeguards as IAEA had funded this mega project.

* Chernobyl catastrophe ; TORCH report ( Rebecca Harms commissioned two UK scientists for an alternate report, entitled TORCH, to the disputed November 2005 IAEA report on the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster )

The Plutonium separation takes place at the New Laboratories, a reprocessing plant, which was completed by 1981 by PAEC and is next to the Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology ( PINSTECH ) near Islamabad, which is not subject to IAEA inspections and safeguards.

The International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) later stated that it contained approximately of strontium, equivalent to the amount of radiation released immediately after the Chernobyl accident ( though the total radiation release from Chernobyl was 2500 times greater at around ).

Following the Chernobyl accident, the IAEA initiated work on all aspects of nuclear liability with a view to improving the basic Conventions and establishing a comprehensive liability regime.

The current Board members are: Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, South Korea, Mongolia, Netherlands, Niger, Pakistan, Peru, Portugal, Russian Federation, Singapore, South Africa, Tunisia, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, and Venezuela ( IAEA Board of Governors 2010 – 2011 ).

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 has its headquarters in Vienna, Austria.

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

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.

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 ).