The iia participated in the IAEA Technical Meeting on Exploring Emerging Applications of Radiation Technology, held on 10-14 November 2025. The objective of the meeting was to assist the IAEA in its strategic planning for the coming years including the direction of its radiation technology...
The iia participated in the IAEA Technical Meeting on Exploring Emerging Applications of Radiation Technology, held on 10-14 November 2025. The objective of the meeting was to assist the IAEA in its strategic planning for the coming years including the direction of its radiation technology...
A new transportable electron beam system has been launched at the IAEA on the sidelines of its General Conference being held this week. The e-beam is housed in shipping containers that can be loaned out for research and development activities, demonstrations, and training in the operation and...
A new gamma irradiator has been constructed at the International Centre for Environmental and Nuclear Science (ICENS), a research facility of the University of the West Indies. The irradiator was procured by the IAEA through its technical cooperation programme. The irradiator is being used for the...
In 2020, the IAEA launched the initiative NUclear TEChnology for Controlling Plastic Pollution (NUTEC Plastics), affirming the vital role of nuclear science in addressing one of the most urgent environmental crises of our time On 25–26 November 2025, the 'International High Level Forum on NUTEC Plastics'...
The IAEA, through the NUclear TEChnology for Controlling Plastic Pollution (NUTEC Plastics) initiative, is supporting experts and decision makers in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines to help create solutions that will reduce plastic waste. A series of national stakeholder meetings between 2022 and 2024 has enabled countries’ experts to...
The IAEA recently published new guidance designed to assist countries in establishing robust transport security measures ranging from administrative procedures, to protecting the confidentiality of transport routes and operations, to the physical protection of shipments. It is aimed at those responsible for transport security, including...
The IAEA is celebrating the 60th anniversary of its partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations during which time they have advanced the use of nuclear science to boost food security, agricultural productivity and environmental sustainability. Over the past six decades, the Joint...
‘The Importance of Irradiation to Global Wellbeing’ The iia will host a side event at the IAEA ‘Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Science, Technology and Applications and the Technical Cooperation Programme’ on 27 November 2024. The event titled ‘The Importance of Irradiation to Global Wellbeing’ will highlight...
The IAEA held a Regional Coordination Meeting on ‘Quality Management Practices in Radiation Processing Facilities’ from 4 to 8 March 2024 in Suzhou, China. This meeting was held in the context of the IAEA’s Technical Cooperation Project RAS1028 ‘Improving the Quality Management Practices in Radiation...
The IAEA and its partners, under the NUTEC Plastics initiative, are researching and developing ionizing radiation techniques to affordably reprocess and recycle plastics. These techniques involve using electron beam to irradiate post-consumer plastics to enable them the be easily reformed and recycled into other products. In...
The IAEA 67th General Conference was held from 25-29th September 2023. During this conference, the IAEA Director General, Rafal Mariano Grossi, spoke of the role of the IAEA on addressing the important issue of denial and delay of radioactive shipments and highlighted the establishment of...
The IAEA’s Second International Conference on the Application of Radiation Science and Technology (ICARST) was held at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria, from 22 to 26 August. The IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi opened the Conference attended in person by about 400 participants...
The sterile insect technique (SIT) has been used as the main tool to eradicate the outbreak of the Mediterranean fruit fly, also called medfly (Ceratitis capitata), in the Mexican state of Colima. The Medfly is considered among the most devastating insect pests worldwide due to...
On the occasion of the International Conference on Accelerators for Research and Sustainable Development: From Good Practices Towards Socioeconomic Impact opening this week (23–27 May 2022) in Vienna, Austria, the May 2022 issue of the IAEA Bulletin, a quarterly publication, is dedicated to Applications of...
The first Research Coordination Meeting (RCM) of the new IAEA Coordinated Research Project (CRP) D61026 on Novel Irradiation Technology for Phytosanitary Treatment of Food Commodities and Promotion of Trade was held from 22 to 29 March 2022 as a virtual meeting. The RCM was attended by...
The Gafchromic™ dosimetry system offers a relatively simple, low cost and accurate means of assessing low doses used for the Sterile Insect Technique and phytosanitary irradiation. The dosimeter is a small (1 × 1 cm square), thin (~100 micron) film that changes colour when irradiated. The...
