Nuclear watchdog

US accuses China of secret nuclear testing as it calls for broad new arms treaty after New START

The accusations at a global disarmament conference highlighted serious tensions between Washington and Beijing at a pivotal moment in nuclear arms control.

Chinese and US flags flutter outside the building of an American company in Beijing, April 8, 2025.
 A satellite image shows airstrike craters covered with dirt at the Natanz Enrichment Facility, following U.S. airstrikes amid the Iran-Israel conflict, in Natanz County, Iran, June 24, 2025.

Iran must give status of bombed nuclear sites, IAEA warns in passed resolution

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi attends a meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, September 25, 2025.

IAEA inspectors visited Iranian nuclear sites last week, foreign ministry says

 An Iranian missile system is displayed next to a banner with a picture of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during Iranian defence week, in a street in Tehran, Iran, September 24, 2024.

Iran secretly enriching enough uranium for nine nuclear weapons, IAEA report says


Iran has told IAEA it plans to enrich uranium to 20%, Russian envoy says

The move is the latest of several recent announcements by Iran to the International Atomic Energy Agency that it plans to further breach the nuclear deal.

IAEA director-general Rafael Grossi listens as head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Ali-Akbar Salehi delivers his speech at the opening of the IAEA General Conference at their headquarters in Vienna, Austria September 21, 2020

Top UN inspector: Biden’s plan to rejoin the Iran deal will not be easy

Iran is now enriching and stockpiling uranium at levels well beyond the deal’s parameters, but nowhere near the levels it was at before the 2015 deal.

INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi talks at the opening of the IAEA General Conference in Vienna, on Monday.

Head of US agency overseeing nuclear weapons stockpile resigns

The action drew criticism from Senator James Inhofe, Republican chairman of the Armed Services Committee who praised Gordon-Hagerty and harshly criticized Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette.

Under Secretary for Nuclear Security of the U.S. Department of Energy and Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration Lisa Gordon-Hagerty tours the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Alabama in Bangor, Washington, U.S. in this October 10, 2018

UAE launches start-up operations at first nuclear power plant

ENEC said its subsidiary Nawah Energy Company "has successfully started up Unit 1 of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant, located in the Al Dhafrah Region of Abu Dhabi."

The open reactor with fuel rods are seen in a water pool inside the nuclear power plant Muehleberg during a yearly revision in Muehleberg, Switzerland August 16, 2012.

Pakistan making ‘significant’ strides in securing its nuclear material

Islamabad ‘most improved’ in anti-theft ranking, US watchdog group says upon publishing index.

A view shows railway packages for containers with uranium hexafluoride salt, raw material for nuclear reactors, similar to the one be used for the IAEA Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) Bank

Iran's Natanz nuclear facility damaged in 'incident'

A team of experts from Iran's Atomic Energy Organization are investigating the cause of the incident.

A view of Natanz uranium enrichment facility 250 km (155 miles) south of the Iranian capital of Tehran.

UN watchdog presses Iran over nuke violations, Iran threatens retaliation

"Iran fully rejects this resolution and will respond appropriately...those who made this decision will bear responsibility for its consequences," Iranian official Kazem Gharib Abadi said.

Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Ali-Akbar Salehi attends the opening of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference at their headquarters in Vienna, Austria September 16, 2019

Iran has passed low uranium enrichment threshold for a nuke - Iran official

Actual nuke still requires decision to weaponize, deliver

FILE PHOTO: Members of the media and officials tour the water nuclear reactor at Arak, Iran December 23, 2019. WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

International Atomic Energy Agency head Yukiya Amano passes away

He had been preparing to leave his position in March, well before the end of his third four-year term, which ran until Nov. 30, 2021.

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Yukiya Amano.

Iran uranium enrichment site opens for first time in 2 years, images show

The Fordow compound was part of Iran's nuclear program and was discovered in satellite images in 2009.

Satellite images of Iran's Fordo enrichment facility, May 3, 2018