Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

Atomic energy

IAEA/1338

I"A BOARD FOR 1999-2000 ELECTS CHAIRMAN

4 October 1999


Press Release
IAEA/1338


IAEA BOARD FOR 1999-2000 ELECTS CHAIRMAN

19991004

VIENNA, 4 October (IAEA) –- At its first meeting today, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors for 1999-2000 has elected the Governor of Brazil, Mr. Sergio de Queiroz Duarte as its Chairman. Ambassador Queiroz Duarte is the Resident Representative of Brazil to the IAEA and international organizations in Vienna.

IAEA/1336

ACCIDENT AT THE TOKAIMURA FUEL CONVERSION PLANT

1 October 1999


Press Release
IAEA/1336


ACCIDENT AT THE TOKAIMURA FUEL CONVERSION PLANT

19991001

Vienna, 1 October (IAEA) -- The International Atomic Energy Agency learned at approximately 9 a.m. Vienna time on September 30 that an apparent criticality accident had occurred at a fuel conversion plant in Tokaimura.

IAEA/1335

ELEVEN NEW MEMBERS ELECTED TO I"A BOARD OF GOVERNERS

1 October 1999


Press Release
IAEA/1335


ELEVEN NEW MEMBERS ELECTED TO IAEA BOARD OF GOVERNERS

19991001

VIENNA, 30 September (IAEA) -- The forty-third regular session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has elected 11 member States to the IAEA Board of Governors, the 35- member policy-making body.

IAEA/1331

SAFEGUARDS INSPECTION BY I"A CONDUCTED AT VINCA INSTITUTE, OUTSIDE BELGRADE

8 June 1999


Press Release
IAEA/1331


SAFEGUARDS INSPECTION BY IAEA CONDUCTED AT VINCA INSTITUTE, OUTSIDE BELGRADE

19990608

VIENNA, 8 June (IAEA) -- After an interruption in regular inspections since January, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) performed a safeguards inspection at the Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences outside Belgrade, Yugoslavia, on 3 and 4 June.