The accidents at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011 gave rise to the substantial revision and strengthening of international nuclear safety standards and to the improvement of international norms to ensure both the highest level of nuclear…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate the new member States joining the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), namely, the Sultanate of Oman, the independent State of Papua New Guinea and the Kingdom of Lesotho. I wish them every success in their work at the Agency. The enlargement in the …
