UN Atomic Agency Money Goes to Terror Fight, Not Nuclear SafetyBy Aaron Sheldrick and Jennifer M. Freedman, Bloomberg Business Week 12/12
[Excerpted] "The agency classifies safety as one of its top
three priorities, yet is spending 8.9 percent of its 352 million-euro
($469 million) regular budget this year on making plants secure from
accidents. As it focuses resources on the other two priorities --
technical cooperation and preventing nuclear- weapons proliferation --
the IAEA is missing an opportunity to improve shortcomings in reactor
safety exposed by the Fukushima disaster, said Trevor Findlay, a former
Australian diplomat.
“The IAEA did not seize the opportunity of this
dreadful event to advance the agency's role in nuclear safety,” said
Findlay, who is finishing a two-year study of the Vienna-based agency at
Harvard University. Director General Yukiya Amano “has been tough on
Iran and Syria, but not when it comes to nuclear safety.”
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