Showing posts with label IAEA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IAEA. Show all posts
The U.S. And Russia Clash Over The Risk Of A Nuclear 'Catastrophe' In Syria
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano (left) addresses Board of Governors meeting in Vienna, Austria. Photo: IAEA/Dean Calma
IAEA Divided on Atomic Risks From Potential US Airstrike in Syria -- RIA Novosti
VIENNA, September 9 (RIA Novosti) – The head of the United Nations’ nuclear energy watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Monday that his agency was divided about nuclear risks from a potential US airstrike in Syria.
Yukiya Amano said that US and Cuban representatives disagreed about such risks, but their exact opinions could not be revealed because they spoke at a private meeting of the agency’s board of governors.
He said his agency would be unable to fulfill Russia’s request for such an assessment within the week.
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More News On Russian Demands That The IAEA Report On Syria Attack Risks
Russia, US argue over Moscow’s request for IAEA to analyze risk of Syria nuclear disaster -- RT
US questions Russia's request for IAEA assessment on Syrian reactor -- Jerusalem Post/Reuters
Syria civil war: Russia demands United Nations report on risk of nuclear ‘catastrophe’ -- The Independent
Russia Presses UN to Report on Syria Attack Risks -- ABC News/AP
Syria Squeezes Atomic Monitors Between Russian, U.S. Requests -- Bloomberg Businessweek
U.S. opposes IAEA risk probe on possible military attacks on Syria -- Xinhuanet
U.N.'s IAEA Has Been Infiltrated By Iranian Hackers
Hackers Break Into IAEA Servers, Post Data Online -- Express Tribune/Reuters
VIENNA: The UN nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday that hackers had managed to breach their systems and had stolen information from one of its former servers. The compromised data had subsequently been posted on a hacker site this week, and that it was taking ”all possible steps” to ensure its computer systems were protected.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is investigating Iran’s nuclear activity, said the information concerned contact details of experts working with the IAEA but it did not say who might have been behind the hack.
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More News On The IAEA's Servers Being Hacked By Iranian Hackers
U.N. Nuclear Agency Says It Was Hacked -- Wall Street Journal
U.N. atom agency says stolen information on hacker site -- Reuters
IAEA Admits Computer System Hacked -- Radio Free Europe
Pro-Iranian Hackers Infiltrate Top Nuclear Watchdog And Call For Investigation Of Israel -- Business Insider
UN nuclear watchdog confirms data leak -- ZDNet
Pro-Iranian Hackers Hit U.N. Nuclear Agency, Publish Sensitive Info Online -- The Blaze
Hackers post atomic agency information -- Deutsche Welle
IAEA Server Breached, Scientists' Email Addresses Spilled -- Threat Post
Iranian Hackers Break Into IAEA Systems -- Arutz Sheva
IAEA Chief Says Israeli Strike On Iran Would Be 'Insane'
Photo: The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradeiFrom AFP:
BERLIN (AFP) — The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei called any possible Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities an "insane" move, in an interview with a German magazine.
"Attacking Iran would be insane," ElBaradei, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told Der Spiegel in an interview to appear Monday.
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My Comment: What is even more insane is having a country like Iran, with a president that preaches genocide on Israel, processing and enriching nuclear materials for a program that can only involve the manufacture and production of nuclear weapons.
But of course El Baradei is silent on this issue.
UN Mohamed ElBaradei: 20 New Nuclear States In Coming Years
From The Guardian:The number of potential nuclear weapons states could more than double in a few years unless the major powers take radical steps towards disarmament, the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog has warned.
In a Guardian interview, Mohamed ElBaradei said the threat of proliferation was particularly grave in the Middle East, a region he described as a "ticking bomb".]
ElBaradei, the outgoing director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said the current international regime limiting the spread of nuclear weapons was in danger of falling apart under its own inequity. "Any regime … has to have a sense of fairness and equity and it is not there," he said in an interview at his offices in Vienna.
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My Comment: Strange remarks from a man who accepted the Nobel Peace Prize a few years ago for being successful on nuclear disarmament.
IAEA May Need Intelligence Arm Against Atom Terror
From Yahoo News/AP:The U.N. atomic watchdog may need to set up its own intelligence unit to combat a growing menace of nuclear terrorism, a former senior CIA official said in an interview Wednesday.
"The good news is that no credible information has surfaced that al Qaeda has obtained weapons-usable nuclear materials. The bad news is that (these) are missing in significant quantities," said Rolf Mowatt-Larssen.
He said the International Atomic Energy Agency, with its expertise probing shadowy nuclear activity in Iran and the A.Q. Khan nuclear smuggling ring, could be well placed to transcend national barriers to intelligence-sharing on atomic threats.
"We urgently need to overco
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My Comment: The UN is the worse agency to monitor against atom terrorism .... especially when some of the member states that will supervise this agency are being accused of nuclear proliferation and terrorism.
GAO Seeks Curbs on Nuclear Assistance Funding to Terrorism Sponsors
From Yahoo News/CQ Politics:The Government Accountability Office revealed Tuesday that U.S. funds promoting the peaceful use of nuclear technology went to countries listed as state sponsors of terrorism.
The agency recommended that Congress and the State Department restrict future funding to the International Atomic Energy Agency's Technical Cooperation Program to prevent Iran, Syria, Cuba and Sudan from receiving money. In a report, the GAO said neither the State Department nor the IAEA had systematically worked to limit assistance to the four countries, which together received more than $55 million from 1997-2007, meaning it's unclear whether U.S. funding has indirectly contributed to nuclear weapons proliferation.
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My Comment: This is unbelievable. The idea that U.S. taxpayer monies are supporting the nuclear programs in countries like Iran and Syria .... sigh .... there is something terribly wrong here.
Iran, Syria Got Indirect U.S. Nuclear Aid
From Wall Street Journal:WASHINGTON -- Four countries designated by the U.S. as terrorism sponsors, including Iran and Syria, received $55 million from a U.S.-supported program promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energy, according to a report by Congress's investigative arm.
Iran received more than $15 million from 1997 to 2007 under the International Atomic Energy Agency's Technical Cooperation program, according to the Government Accountability Office report set to be released Tuesday. An additional $14 million went to Syria, while Sudan and Cuba received more than $11 million each, it said.
The U.S. is the largest funder of the United Nations body's program and provided $20 million in 2007, or about a quarter of the budget, the report said.
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My Comment: We have found the enemy .... and it is us.