Nuclear Safety and the International Atomic Energy Agency
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is the world s Atoms for Peace organization; was set up in 1957 within the United Nations family an independent intergovernmental, science and technology-based organization; has 162 Member States (as of February 2014); promotes safe, secure and peaceful nuclear technologies worldwide.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) the world s centre of cooperation in the nuclear field assists its Member States in planning for and using nuclear science and technology for various peaceful purposes; facilitates the transfer of such technology and knowledge in a sustainable manner; develops nuclear safety standards; promotes the achievement and maintenance of high levels of safety in applications of nuclear energy
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Among the areas of focus: nuclear sciences and applications, safe use of nuclear power, nuclear safety & security, safeguards, nuclear information and knowledge, radiobiology, protection of people and environment from harmful effects of ionizing radiation, protection of marine environment, water resource management, food & nutrition, etc. medicine,
The Secretariat is located at the Vienna International Centre (Vienna, Austria). Operational liaison and regional offices are in Switzerland, the USA, Canada, and Japan Runs or supports research centres and scientific laboratories in Austria, Monaco, and Italy.
A visit of IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano to JINR (18 May 2013)
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano in the accelerator hall of the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano visits the Nuclotron at the Laboratory of High Energy Physics
The International Nuclear Information System (INIS) Established in 1970 A pioneer in nuclear knowledge preservation The first international computerized system Operated by the IAEA in cooperation with 153 INIS members INIS members: 129 states 24 international organizations
The International Nuclear Information System (INIS) The INIS mission: to collect, process, preserve, and disseminate bibliographic data of the world s nuclear literature and full texts of non-conventional literature or grey literature. INIS Products: INIS Collection INIS/ETDE Thesaurus & Multilingual Thesaurus
The INIS Collection A reference collection of scientific literature published worldwide on the peaceful uses of nuclear science & technology Comprehensive international coverage About 3.5 mln bibliographic citations and abstracts of journal articles, books, conference papers, scientific and technical reports, theses, patents, laws, regulations, standards, web documents. A unique online collection of around 500 thousand full-text documents ( grey literature ): scientific and technical reports, preprints, conference proceedings, thesis, patents Annual increase is over 100 000 records
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The INIS Thesaurus is a major tool for describing nuclear information and knowledge in structured form and for information retrieval.
The INIS Thesaurus contains more than 30 thousand terms and is published at the INIS website in eight languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Russian
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The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) A member of INIS since 1973; has an INIS Centre Contributes to the INIS Collection information regarding its published literature: reports and preprints (grey literature), articles from the journal Particles and Nuclei, Letters Submitted earlier: JINR Rapid Communications Full texts of above publications can be accessed via the INIS Collection Search.
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CANDU (CANada Deuterium Uranium) reactors produce electricity by splitting atoms of natural uranium to create heat; the heat is then used to make steam to power the turbines and generators which in turn produce electricity
Safety systems at nuclear power plants ensure three basic safety functions
Shut-down systems at nuclear reactors
Sources of back-up power at NPPs
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