Topic: International Atomic Energy Agency

Iran shows U.N. official nuclear sites: envoy

VIENNA, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Iran allowed a senior U.N. nuclear inspector to visit a facility for developing advanced uranium enrichment machines during a rare tour of all of the country's main atomic sites, an Iranian envoy said on Tuesday.Ali Asghar Soltanieh, ...

U.N. nuclear watchdog visits Iran sites: report

TEHRAN (Reuters) - A senior United Nations official visited all of Iran's main atomic sites last week, an Iranian news agency reported, as the Islamic Republic looks to restart talks with world powers about its nuclear program.Herman Nackaerts, the head of the ...

Iran seeks 'explicit' nuclear deal with UN

Iran on Tuesday signaled it wanted closer cooperation with the UN atomic watchdog but said the Vienna-based agency must agree to "explicit" guidelines on how to proceed to solve a nuclear row."Experts from both sides have to sit together and work out ...
And the hits just keep on comingThe year 2011 will go down for the nuclear industry worldwide as an annus horribilis. First came the March Fukushima nuclear disaster, with operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) belatedly acknowledging that three of the facility's ...
UN atomic watchdog chief Yukiya Amano said Friday he had been invited to visit Iran by the head of the country's atomic organisation Fereydoon Abbasi Davani, but added he was awaiting clarification."Dr. Abbassi invited me to Tehran," Amano told journalists on the ...

IAEA reports Syria to UN over nuke allegations

The UN atomic watchdog voted Thursday to report Syria to the United Nations Security Council over allegations it built an undeclared nuclear reactor that was then destroyed by Israeli bombs, diplomats said.At a closed-door meeting of the 35-member board of governors of ...
World powers expressed "deeper concern" Thursday about the intention behind Iran's controversial atomic drive in face of its refusal to answer questions about possible military dimensions to the work.A day after Iran announced it was expanding uranium enrichment -- the most senstive ...

U.N. atomic board reports Syria to Security Council

VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog board decided on Thursday to report Syria to the Security Council for covert atomic work, a U.S.-led move coinciding with Western condemnation of Damascus' crackdown on opposition protests.Russia and China voted against the proposal at ...

Defiant Iran plans big rise in nuclear enrichment

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will shift its production of higher grade uranium to an underground bunker and triple its production capacity, it said on Wednesday in a defiant response to accusations it is trying to produce atomic bombs."This year, under the supervision ...
Iran is ready to resume nuclear talks with the world powers but will press ahead with its atomic activities including uranium enrichment, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday."They want to negotiate again. Let's negotiate for understanding and cooperation... but until they change ...