IAEA helps African countries develop their proposals, plans and projects

Last year, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) sent Integrated Nuclear Infrastructure Review (INIR) missions to three countries, all of them in Africa. They were Kenya, Morocco and Nigeria. This was highlighted at the recent Nuclear Africa 2016 conference by IAEA Deputy Director General Mikhail Chudakov. “The IAEA is known as the world’s nuclear watchdog,” he noted. “Our mandate is much broader than that.” The agency’s functions include the promotion of peaceful nuclear energy as a means to help countries achieve development. The IAEA helps countries apply nuclear power safely.