1st Edition

The International Atomic Energy Agency Historical Reflections, Current Challenges and Future Prospects

Edited By Joseph F. Pilat Copyright 2022
    270 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    270 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This volume offers a wide-ranging examination and discussion of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) past, present and future as it enters its seventh decade.

    Including contributions from leading experts across the globe, the book assesses the historical record of the IAEA; the issues and challenges it faces at present; and its future prospects. In doing so, it addresses the primary missions of the IAEA outlined in the IAEA’s statute, i.e., to safeguard and promote the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, as well as the missions over which it is expanding its mandate, including nuclear safety and security. The volume is divided into two parts: Part I focuses on historical recollections and reflections of participants in key events, ranging from a personal account of the initial negotiations of the IAEA to an account by its chairman on the dynamics of the Board of Governors in recent years. Part II covers current and future issues in the IAEA’s role in nuclear safeguards, the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and nuclear safety and security.

    This book will be of much interest to students of nuclear proliferation and arms control, global governance and international security in general.

    Chapter 1. Introduction

    Joseph F. Pilat

    Chapter 2. Interview with Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General of the IAEA

    Part I: Historical Recollections and Reflections

    Chapter 3. Present at the Creation: Reflections on 60 Years of Interactions with the IAEA

    James Goodby

    Chapter 4. IAEA Safeguards: From the Early Years to NPT Safeguards

    Myron Kratzer

    Chapter 5. The Model Additional Protocol

    Laura Rockwood

    Chapter 6. The IAEA at Six Decades: Why I Still Like Ike

    Daniel Poneman

    Chapter 7. The Travails of IAEA Governance: A View from the Board Chair

    John Barrett

    Part II: Current and Future Issues and Prospects

    Chapter 8. The IAEA and the Evolution of Safeguards

    Massimo Aparo

    Chapter 9. The Evolution of IAEA Safeguards: Technical, Political, and Cultural Dimensions

    John Carlson

    Chapter 10. Nuclear Nonproliferation: Six Lessons Not Yet Learned

    Pierre Goldschmidt

    Chapter 11. The IAEA and Peaceful Nuclear Uses

    Mark Hibbs

    Chapter 12. Promoting the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy

    Nobuyasu Abe

    Chapter 13. Atoms for Peace: Bringing Nuclear Fusion Closer to Reality

    Bernard Bigot

    Chapter 14. Nuclear Safety and Security after Fukushima: The Role of the IAEA and the Prospects for Global Governance

    Joseph F. Pilat

    Chapter 15. How Nuclear Security Arrived at the IAEA

    Piet de Klerk

    Chapter 16.The Nuclear Security Summits and the International Atomic Energy Agency

    Laura S.H. Holgate

    Chapter 17.Nuclear Security Advocacy Following the Nuclear Security Summits: The Nuclear Security Contact Group

    Heidi Hulan

    Chapter 18. The IAEA and Euratom at Six Decades

    Maria Betti, Willem Janssens, Vincenzo Rondinella, and Jean-Paul Glatz

    Appendix

    Keynote Address at the Conference: Sixty Years of Atoms for Peace Development

    Yukiya Amano

    Biography

    Joseph F. Pilat is a Program Manager in the Office of National Security and International Studies at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars where he co-directs the Nonproliferation Forum.