Factsheets & FAQs

IAEA factsheets, flyers, and FAQs offer snapshots of the Agency´s work, and topical overviews in fields of safety and security, safeguards and verification, and science and technology. These online resources - many in multiple language versions - are listed below, by major topic and year.

Recent Factsheet: IAEA Safeguards Analytical Laboratories

The science essential to verifying the peaceful use of nuclear material.

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IAEA Facts and Profiles

IAEA Primer (2013)
Arabic | Chinese | French | German | Russian | Spanish
Member States
FAQs on IAEA Coordinated Research Projects (2002)

Safeguards and Verification

IAEA Safeguards Analytical Laboratories (2012)
Arabic | Chinese | French | Russian | Spanish
Tools for Nuclear Inspection (2004)
IAEA Safeguards: Stemming the Spread of Nuclear Weapons (2002)

Safety and Security

Linking Nuclear Power and Environment: Safe, Secure, Sustainable Power (2013)
FAQs on Nuclear Safety (2011)
International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES) (2008)
French | Russian | Spanish
Incident and Emergency Centre (IEC) (2007)
French | Russian | Spanish
Fact Sheet on Polonium-210 (2006)
Radioactive Sources Q&A (2006)
Promoting Nuclear Security: What the IAEA is Doing (2006)
French | Russian | Spanish
IAEA Database on Illicit Trafficking (2007 2006 2005 2004)
Promoting Safety in Nuclear Installations (2003)
French | Russian | Spanish
Depleted Uranium FAQs (2003)
Chernobyl Q&A (2001)
Radiation in Everyday Life
Managing Radioactive Waste

Food and Agriculture

Technical Cooperation

The IAEA Technical Cooperation Programme:
Delivering results for peace and development
English | French | Spanish
Water and the Environment
English | French | Spanish
Human Health
English | French | Spanish
Agriculture and Food Security
English | French | Spanish
The IAEA: Contributing to the Achievements of the Millennium Development Goals
English | French | Spanish
Groundwater in the Sahel region:
Enabling integrated management of water resources in thirteen African countries
Connecting the dots:
linking technical cooperation projects on transboundary groundwater resources in Africa
The Nile Basin Project:
Identifying Surface and Groundwater Interactions
The Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System Project:
Mapping the World’s Largest Known Fossil Aquifer
Technical Cooperation Success Stories
Nuclear Techniques for Global Development: How the IAEA supports Member States through coordinated research activities and technical cooperation projects

Human Health

Assessing Effects of Depleted Uranium: IAEA Role (2009)
Depleted Uranium FAQs (2003)
Improving Human Health (2002)
French | Russian | Spanish
Human Communicable Diseases (2002)
FAQs on Nutrition and Health-Related Environmental Studies (NAHRES)(2002)
FAQs on Nuclear Medicine and Diagnostic Imaging (NMDI) (2002)
FAQs on Applied Radiation Biology and Radiotherapy (ARBR) (2002)
FAQs on Dosimetry and Medical Radiation Physics (DMRP) (2002)
Applications of Nuclear Techniques in Medicine (1999)
French | Spanish
Designing Better Nutrition Programmes: The Role of Nuclear Technology
English| French | Spanish | Arabic
Stable Isotope Techniques: Tackling Childhood Obesity in Chile
English | Spanish
Better Human Health

Isotope Hydrology and Water Resources

What can the IAEA and Nuclear Technolgies Do For You? (2011)
Managing Water Resources Using Isotope Hydrology (2002)
French | Russian | Spanish
Water Matters

Nuclear Data and Information

Nuclear Technologies and Development

Capacity Building for Sustainable Energy Development (2002)
French | Russian | Spanish
Nuclear Power and Sustainable Development (2002)
French | Russian | Spanish
Indicators for Sustainable Energy Development (2002)
French | Russian | Spanish
Sustainable Energy

Environment