IAEA

The IAEA is the world’s centre 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. Its website is of particular interest for the readers of this book and more detailed information can be found on safeguards, safety standards, nuclear law, international conventions and technical matters related to fuel cycle installations and nuclear power plants.

WNA

WNA’s role is to support the global nuclear energy industry through expert Working Groups focused on industry goals and concerns representing the industry in such key policy forums as IAEA, ICRP and UN climate change talks, the WNA Public Information Service (the world’s leading resource for facts on nuclear energy), WNN (the foremost nuclear news service), the Biennial WNA Market Report (an authoritative projection of the global nuclear fuel market), the industry’s pre-eminent WNA Symposium and the World Nuclear Fuel Cycle conference, support for WNTI and Women-in — Nuclear operating the World Nuclear Communicators Network to foster best practice in public information on nuclear energy, and the WNA Nuclear Energy Index of globally traded nuclear stocks.