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<p style="color:#808080">Plastic waste at Galapagos coast, Ecuador (Photo: F. Oberhaensli/IAEA) </p><p>
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Sunlight, wind and waves break down plastic debris into smaller and smaller pieces that eventually become microplastics. Exfoliants in the health and beauty industry and the synthetic fibres used in clothes and textiles also contribute to microplastic pollution. Microplastics harm marine life – they are ingested by sea animals that mistake them for food. This then enters the human food chain.
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Learn how the IAEA and its partners are helping scientists to improve how they measure this phenomenon worldwide, through an example of IAEA technical cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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<p style="color:#808080">(Text: Andrea Galindo)</p>

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24 October 2023

Cooperation is Key: Training Experts to Support Evidence-Based Decision Making Around the Management of Microplastics in the Ocean

The Integrated Regulatory Review Service (IRRS) reviews a country’s regulatory infrastructure against IAEA safety standards with a view to improve nuclear and radiation safety and facilitate global harmonization. The IRRS in Bangladesh took place from 26 November to 8 December 2022.

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12 October 2023

Integrated Regulatory Review Service (IRRS) in Bangladesh

As part of ongoing IAEA efforts to continually strengthen national, regional and international capacities to respond to nuclear and radiological incidents and emergencies, the fourth edition of the School of Radiation Emergency Management (SREM) in the Latin American and the Caribbean region was conducted in Spanish from 31 October - 18 November 2022 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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24 May 2023

Latin American and Caribbean Professionals Gain Hands-On Expertise in Emergency Preparedness and Response

The IAEA’s Women for Nuclear Science Education and Communications (W4NSEC) training course helps female educators and science communication professionals to improve their outreach programmes on nuclear science. It includes sessions on working with the press, developing resources for academic programmes, and promoting ongoing nuclear activities through outreach.

(Photo: Women in Nuclear Peru)

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14 March 2023

Women Communicators Trained in Nuclear Science Outreach

Technical cooperation seeks to forge human and institutional capacity in Member States to safely utilize nuclear technologies to address local needs, global issues and contribute to national development.

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29 November 2022

The Technical Cooperation Programme: How Does it Work?

In 2022, the IAEA’s annual General Conference (GC) was held from 26 to 30 September. It was attended by more than 2 500 <a href=_.html#">participants</a> from 153 countries. Delegates also attended additional in-person and hybrid side events and exhibitions, which took place in advance of, and during, the week of the General Conference.

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7 October 2022

Highlights from the 66th IAEA General Conference: The Department of Technical Cooperation

The use of radiation technologies in Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member countries has become safer and more effective thanks, in part, to a series of projects supported by the IAEA technical cooperation (TC) programme.

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5 August 2022

IAEA Supports Advances in Regulatory Infrastructure for Radiation Safety in the Caribbean

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Plastic pollution is one of the most pressing global environmental challenges. By 2025 the ocean will contain one tonne of plastic for every three tonnes of fish, and by 2050, there may be more plastic in the ocean than fish. Landfills are often brimming with plastic waste and pose an environmental threat to rivers, groundwater and the ocean.
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Here is how nuclear technology can help to turn waste into valuable raw material.
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Text and Photos: Miklos Gaspar (IAEA)
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Photo Essay

26 May 2022

NUTEC Plastics: With Irradiation Towards a Circular Economy

Nuclear science and technology play an important role in addressing issues in low-carbon energy demand, human health, food security and environmental pollution, and contribute to socioeconomic development around the world.

The IAEA works to foster greater interest in these technologies among youth, including in Asia and the Pacific. Student and teacher winners from a Virtual NST Education Competition visited the IAEA in Austria in May 2022 to present their projects and learn hands on about the many uses of nuclear technology.

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5 May 2022

Engaging Asian Youth in Nuclear Science

Nuclear safety and security experts from the IAEA, headed by Deputy Director General Lydie Evrard, delivering equipment to Chornobyl.
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<br>Text: D. TEIXEIRA/IAEA and M. Gaspar/IAEA
<br>Photos: IAEA

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29 April 2022

IAEA Experts at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant

Delegates, participants and journalists of the international press and media make their way to the main entrance of the Scottish Event Campus for the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, the United Kingdom, 3 November 2021.

Photos: D. Calma/IAEA

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4 November 2021

Behind the Scenes at the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) – Glasgow, United Kingdom

In Sri Lanka, women play a critical role in driving rural communities' economic development and ensuring food security. According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Sri Lanka is largely self-sufficient in animal products except in dairy, where national consumption has steadily grown since the 1970s, outpacing supply. Boosting dairy production in the country will help empower women in rural areas and improve the country’s self-reliance.
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Text: O. Yusuf/IAEA
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Photos: S. Anuraj/University of Peradeniya

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15 October 2021

Photo essays

Cooperation is Key: Training Experts to Support Evidence-Based Decision Making Around the Management of Microplastics in the Ocean

Integrated Regulatory Review Service (IRRS) in Bangladesh

Latin American and Caribbean Professionals Gain Hands-On Expertise in Emergency Preparedness and Response

Women Communicators Trained in Nuclear Science Outreach

The Technical Cooperation Programme: How Does it Work?

Highlights from the 66th IAEA General Conference: The Department of Technical Cooperation

IAEA Supports Advances in Regulatory Infrastructure for Radiation Safety in the Caribbean

NUTEC Plastics: With Irradiation Towards a Circular Economy

Engaging Asian Youth in Nuclear Science

IAEA Experts at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant

Behind the Scenes at the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) – Glasgow, United Kingdom

Empowering Rural Women in Sri Lanka's Dairy Industry

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