UN’s nuclear watchdog has strengths but needs a boost: report

Ottawa Citizen

Ian MacLeod
July 9, 2012

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OTTAWA — The International Atomic Energy Agency requires strengthening, but not a dramatic overhaul, concludes a report to be released Tuesday at Carleton University.

Unleashing the Nuclear Watchdog: Strengthening and Reform of the IAEA, by nuclear governance expert Trevor Findlay, portrays the agency as one of the United Nation’s most efficient and well-managed organizations, but also facing looming challenges and “significant” future unknowns.

Most startling, perhaps is that, “the agency appears to face an uphill battle in convincing its member states …

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