27.07.2007 // Press service of Rostekhnadzor

On July 29 2007 the International Atomic Energy Agency is marking its 50th anniversary

The IAEA is the world’s center of cooperation in the nuclear field. It was set up as the world’s «Atoms for Peace» organization in 1957 within the United Nations family. The Agency works with its Member States and multiple partners worldwide to promote safe, secure and peaceful nuclear technologies.

The IAEA works for the safe, secure and peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology. Its key roles contribute to international peace and security, and to the World’s Millennium Goals for social, economic and environmental development.

The three main pillars underpinning the Agency’s mission are as follows: Promoting Safeguards & Verification; Promoting Safety and Security; and Promoting Science & Technology.

In the past 50 years the role and the political authority of the IAEA have significantly grown: if in 1957 the Agency had 56 members, today, it has as many as 144 members.

The Soviet Union was among the first to ratify the IAEA Statute, Russia continues this tradition.

Specialists of the Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Control (Rostekhnadzor) take an active part in IAEA projects and expert missions. In 2009 an IAEA mission will inspect the work of Rostekhnadzor as a body exercising control over the organizations responsible for nuclear and radiation safety.

“It was our own initiative. The IAEA experts will come to assess our ability to observe nuclear and radiation safety performance. This will help us to carry out our ambitious plans for developing nuclear energy,” says the head of Rostekhnadzor Konstantin Pulikovsky.

In 2006 Rostekhnadzor specialists took part in 28 IAEA events (consultations, conferences, inspections, training courses) as well as in measures carried out under 11 regional and international projects.

Rostekhnadzor is actively involved in a number of national projects: improving emergency preparedness and response at research reactors, improving and developing quality management systems with the view of enhancing nuclear and radiation safety, harmonizing probabilistic safety analysis standards, etc.

Rostekhnadzor and the IAEA are jointly implementing RAIS 3.0 project (Radiation Safety Regulatory Infrastructure-Regulatory Authority Information System).