How did the IAEA, a diplomatic and political international organization, come to dominate scientific institutions with a long tradition in radiation protection?

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Science and Tech Diplomacy: the new geopolitics of technology – A cross-atlantic discussion

download the flyer here. As the Russian war in Ukraine has forced the redrawing of the global geopolitical map, national foreign science policies face novel challenges: from climate change and the role of artificial intelligence in all aspects of human life to the reemergence of the nuclear threat and of deadly pandemics. In this, much […]

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Science Diplomacy – New Book Series edited by Maria Rentetzi

Science Diplomacy – Studies in the Historical Entanglement of Science, Technology and Diplomacy This series seeks to place the relation among science, technology and diplomacy within a historical perspective. Works in the series may focus on the complexities of the tangled relationship between two intrinsically valued practices, the scientific and the diplomatic. Particular attention is […]

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The history of the IAEA Safety Standards and the present services for enhancing their footprint for safety

Prof. Dr. Maria Rentetzi will be part of a panel discussion with officials of the IAEA and other leading experts and will discuss the evolution of the Standards from various perspectives including the IAEA’s role in their development, their practical use in Member States and their dissemination. With this in mind, the panel will examine […]

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International History of Radiation Protection

As a unique technoscientific and diplomatic organization, the IAEA embodies the defining feature of post-WWII nuclear research: political collaboration on an international level became the precondition for any international scientific cooperation.

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The Historical Relations of the IAEA to Other Regulatory Agencies

In the late 1950s the UN started to develop an international regulatory system for managing ionizing radiation risks based heavily on the geopolitical division of the world.

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Standardization and Implementation

The conceptual analysis of standardization is key to understanding scientific work at the interface of laboratory and clinical or industrial practice.

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