Palau will benefit from IAEA

He also said that Palau Customs officials can also access IAEA’s training on mitigating and containing accidents at sea involving ships carrying radioactive materials.The agency will also be sending a training team to Palau train border officials how to detect illegal fertilizers which can be used to make “dirty bombs.”IAEA is the world´s center of cooperation in the nuclear field. It was set up as the world´s “Atoms for Peace” organization in 1957 within the United Nations family, he said.The IAEA Secretariat is headquartered at the Vienna International Centre in Vienna, Austria. Operational liaison and regional offices are located in Geneva, Switzerland; New York, USA; Toronto, Canada; and Tokyo, Japan. The IAEA runs or supports research centers and scientific laboratories in Vienna and Seibersdorf, Austria; Monaco; and Trieste, Italy.The IAEA, is a team of 2,200 multi-disciplinary professional and support staff from more than 90 countries.IAEA’s Technical Cooperation is aimed at helping developing countries improve their scientific and technological capabilities in the peaceful application of nuclear technology and contributing to sustainable development.Over 100 countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia Pacific, and Europe benefit from this support, which covers areas such as food, and agriculture, human health, industry, environment, nuclear power and radiation protection, he said.Palauans are now eligible to work for the Agency.Radiation sources that are now maybe used in Palau are in the health sector- hospitals, such as Industrial Irradiators for medical product sterilization, Teletherapy, Blood irradiation, Industrial Gamm Radiography, and High Dose Rate Brachytherapy.