Nuclear Sciences and Applications

• IAEA Impact: How Nuclear Science Helps Botswana Control Animal Diseases, Ensure Food Safety and Maintain its Beef Exports

  Story | 11 August 2016

  In Botswana, cattle is a way of life. Owning and herding cattle and selling animals for quick cash when money is tight provide the livelihood for much of the rural population and represent an important supplementary income for city dwellers. When in 2008 the European Union (EU) tightened sanitary requirements on beef imports, Botswana’s second largest export industry came to the verge of losing its most important and lucrative market: it had neither the equipment nor the know-how to perform the tests required. Read More →

  
  

• IAEA scientist Dr. Ravi Kashyap receives Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions in the field of Nuclear Medicine and Diagnostic Imaging

  Story | 22 July 2016

  Dr. Ravi Kashyap from the Nuclear Medicine and Diagnostic Imaging Section (NDMI) of the Division of Human Health at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been awarded a Life Achievement Award 2016 by the Indo-American Society of Nuclear Medicine, USA. It was announced at this year’s 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine in San Diego, USA. Read More →

  
  

• Lab to Help Diagnosis of Animal Diseases Using Nuclear-Derived Techniques Opens in Botswana

  Story | 11 July 2016

  Botswana’s first-ever rural veterinary disease diagnostic laboratory, opened here last week, will contribute to food security, nutrition and increased beef exports through the use of serological, molecular, nuclear and nuclear derived techniques for the early and rapid diagnosis of various animal diseases. Read More →

  
  

• IAEA Impact: How a Nuclear Technique Helped Save the Western Cape’s Orange Industry

  Story | 28 June 2016

  Every morning at 7 a.m. a small airplane takes off to swoop around a fertile valley amidst the scenic mountains of Western Cape in South Africa, offloading its cargo of 1 000 000 ready-to-mate moths. The insects have been mass-reared and sterilized using equipment and a gamma irradiator donated by the IAEA in 2007. The result: citrus orchards free of the devastation of the false codling moth in the Elephant’s River Valley, and an industry, once on the brink of extinction, is now thriving again. Read More →

  
  

• The IAEA participates in the Monaco ecology awareness week

  Story | 22 June 2016

  The IAEA’s Environment Laboratories participated in Monacology, the Monaco ecology week, to raise awareness on environmental issues amongst children. Read More →

  
  

• On the trail of Environmental Enteric Dysfunction and undernutrition

  Story | 13 June 2016

  International experts converged in Vienna last week to design a ground breaking coordinated research project to address environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) and its impact on child growth. Read More →

  
  

• World Oceans Day: IAEA Helps Reduce Plastic Pollution

  Story | 8 June 2016

  The ocean and its wildlife are strangled in plastic. About 10% of the 100 million tonnes of plastic that the world produces every year ends up in the ocean. Read More →

  
  

• South African Experts Advance in Researching Nuclear Technique to Fight Malaria, Sugarcane Pest

  Story | 7 June 2016

  Several initiatives to control insect pests using nuclear techniques in South Africa are entering the advanced research stage – offering a new possibility to eventually contribute to the control of malaria as well as a major pest attacking sugarcane. Read More →

  
  

• World Environment Day: Using Nuclear Science to Help Halt Illegal Trade in Ivory and Timber

  Story | 5 June 2016

  World Environment Day this year focuses on fighting the illegal trade in wildlife products. Read More →

  
  

• IAEA Laboratory Modernization Advances Toward Funding Goal, Thanks to Recent Pledges

  Story | 3 June 2016

  Recent contributions by IAEA Member States have helped to advance the campaign to raise €31 million for the renovation of three of the Agency's eight nuclear applications laboratories closer to its goal. Read More →

  
  

• Marshall Islands Turns to IAEA for Help in Measuring Food and Environmental Pollution

  Story | 2 June 2016

  Unusual levels of chemical pollutants found in fish and seafood around the Marshall Islands have led the Marshallese authorities to turn to the IAEA for assistance. Read More →

  
  

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• IAEA Bulletin - Atoms for Peace & Development, March 2015, Read English Edition
• IAEA Bulletin - Radiation Medicine and Technology: Diagnoses and Treatments, December 2014, Read English Edition
• IAEA Bulletin - Bringing the IAEA Nuclear Sciences and Applications Laboratories in Seibersdorf to Meet 21st Century Challenges, June 2014, Read English Edition
• IAEA Bulletin - Contributing Solutions to Nutrition, March 2014, Read English Edition
• Stable Isotope Techniques: Tackling Childhood Obesity in Chile
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• Stable Isotope Techniques: Tackling Childhood Obesity in Chile
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• Food for the Future: Making a Difference with Nuclear Technology
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• Efficient Industry, Cleaner Environment: Making a Difference with Nuclear Technology
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