AR2000_Cover_engl=mac.qxd 17.07.2001 15:07 Uhr Seite 1 ANNUAL REPORT 2000ANNUAL AGENCY ENERGY ATOMIC INTERNATIONAL ANNUAL REPORT 2000 www.iaea.org International Atomic Energy Agency P.O. Box 100, Wagramer Strasse 5 A-1400 Vienna, Austria Telephone: (+43-1) 2600-0 Fax: (+43-1) 2600-7 E-Mail: [email protected] INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY GC(45)/4 AR2000_Cover_engl=mac.qxd 17.07.2001 15:07 Uhr Seite 2 ORGANIZATIONAL CHART (as of 31 December 2000) DIRECTOR GENERAL M. ElBaradei Secretariat of the Office of Internal Policy-making Audit Organs V. Liengsririwat K. Aning Director Secretary Office of External Relations and Policy Co-ordination P. de Klerk Director DEPARTMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF NUCLEAR TECHNICAL NUCLEAR NUCLEAR MANAGEMENT SAFEGUARDS SCIENCES AND CO-OPERATION ENERGY SAFETY APPLICATIONS J. Qian V. M. Mourogov Z. Domaratzki D. Waller P. Goldschmidt W. Burkart Deputy Director General Deputy Director General Deputy Director General Deputy Director General Deputy Director General Deputy Director General (ICTP)* Planning, Nuclear Joint Co-ordination Nuclear Power Installation Legal FAO/IAEA Operations A and Evaluation P. E. Juhn Safety L.D. Johnson Division of O. Heinonen A. Volkoff Director A. Carnino Director Nuclear Director Director Director Techniques in Africa and Nuclear Fuel Radiation and Budget and Food and Operations B East Asia and Cycle and Waste Safety Finance Agriculture D. Schriefer the Pacific Waste A. J. Gonzalez A. Espino J. Dargie Director A.A. Shihab-Eldin Technology Director Director Director Director A. Bonne General Director Human Health Operations C Europe, Latin Services S. Groth K. Murakami America and Scientific and H. C. Cars Director Director West Asia Technical Director P. Barretto Information Physical and Conference Technical Director D. Pawlik Chemical and Document Services Director Sciences Services N. Khlebnikov D. D. Sood S. Nawaz Director Director Director Safeguards Agencys Information Public Laboratories Information Technology P. R. Danesi K. Chitumbo D. Kyd Director Director Director IAEA Marine Concepts and Personnel Environment Planning D. Goethel Laboratory, J. Cooley Director Monaco** Director H. Livingston Director * The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Abdus Salam ICTP), legally referred to as International Centre for Theoretical Physics, is operated as a joint programme by UNESCO and the Agency. Administration is carried out by UNESCO on behalf of both organizations. The Agency's involvement in the Centre is managed by the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications. ** With the participation of UNEP and IOC. The first, third and fourth photographs on the cover are from PhotoDisc. INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY ANNUAL REPORT 2000 Article VI.J of the Agency’s Statute requires the Board of Governors to submit “an annual report to the General Conference concerning the affairs of the Agency and any projects approved by the Agency”. This report covers the period 1 January to 31 December 2000. GC(45)/4 MEMBER STATES OF THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY (as of 31 December 2000) AFGHANISTAN GUATEMALA PANAMA ALBANIA HAITI PARAGUAY ALGERIA HOLY SEE PERU ANGOLA HUNGARY PHILIPPINES ARGENTINA ICELAND POLAND ARMENIA INDIA PORTUGAL AUSTRALIA INDONESIA QATAR AUSTRIA IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA BANGLADESH IRAQ ROMANIA BELARUS IRELAND RUSSIAN FEDERATION BELGIUM ISRAEL SAUDI ARABIA BENIN ITALY SENEGAL BOLIVIA JAMAICA SIERRA LEONE BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA JAPAN SINGAPORE BRAZIL JORDAN SLOVAKIA BULGARIA KAZAKHSTAN SLOVENIA BURKINA FASO KENYA SOUTH AFRICA CAMBODIA KOREA, REPUBLIC OF SPAIN CAMEROON KUWAIT SRI LANKA CANADA LATVIA SUDAN CHILE LEBANON SWEDEN CHINA LIBERIA SWITZERLAND COLOMBIA LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC COSTA RICA LIECHTENSTEIN THAILAND COTE D’IVOIRE LITHUANIA THE FORMER YUGOSLAV CROATIA LUXEMBOURG REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA CUBA MADAGASCAR TUNISIA CYPRUS MALAYSIA TURKEY CZECH REPUBLIC MALI UGANDA DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC MALTA UKRAINE OF THE CONGO MARSHALL ISLANDS UNITED ARAB EMIRATES DENMARK MAURITIUS UNITED KINGDOM OF DOMINICAN REPUBLIC MEXICO GREAT BRITAIN AND ECUADOR MONACO NORTHERN IRELAND EGYPT MONGOLIA UNITED REPUBLIC EL SALVADOR MOROCCO OF TANZANIA ESTONIA MYANMAR UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ETHIOPIA NAMIBIA URUGUAY FINLAND NETHERLANDS UZBEKISTAN FRANCE NEW ZEALAND VENEZUELA GABON NICARAGUA VIET NAM GEORGIA NIGER YEMEN GERMANY NIGERIA YUGOSLAVIA GHANA NORWAY ZAMBIA GREECE PAKISTAN ZIMBABWE The Agency’s Statute was approved on 23 October 1956 by the Conference on the Statute of the IAEA held at United Nations Headquarters, New York; it entered into force on 29 July 1957. The Headquarters of the Agency are situated in Vienna. Its principal objective is “to accelerate and enlarge the contribution of atomic energy to peace, health and prosperity throughout the world’’. © IAEA, 2001 Printed by the IAEA in Austria July 2001 IAEA AT A GLANCE (as of 31 December 2000) I 130 Member States. I 54 intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations worldwide have formal agreements and arrangements with the Agency. I 43 years of international service in 2000. I 2173 professional and support staff. I $199.3 million regular budget for 2000, supplemented by extrabudgetary resources amounting to $38.7 million. I $73 million target in 2000 for voluntary contributions to the Agency's Technical Co-operation Fund, supporting projects involving 3483 expert and lecturer assignments, 2379 meeting and workshop participants, 2263 participants in training courses and 1637 fellows and visiting scientists. I 3 international laboratories and research centres. I 2 liaison offices (in New York and Geneva) and 2 safeguards field offices (in Tokyo and Toronto). I 132 active Co-ordinated Research Projects involving 2067 research contracts and agreements. I 224 safeguards agreements in force in 140 States (and with Taiwan, China) involving 2467 safeguards inspections performed in 2000. Safeguards expenditures in 2000 amounted to $70.6 million in regular budget and $10.3 million in extrabudgetary resources. I 15 national safeguards support programmes and 1 multinational support programme (European Union). I 2 million plus scientific and technical bibliographic records in the International Nuclear Information System (INIS), the Agency’s largest database. NOTE I All sums of money are expressed in United States dollars. I The designations employed and the presentation of material in this document do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat concerning the legal status of any country or territory or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers. I The mention of names of specific companies or products (whether or not indicated as registered) does not imply any intention to infringe proprietary rights, nor should it be construed as an endorsement or recommendation on the part of the Agency. I The term “non-nuclear-weapon State’’ is used as in the Final Document of the 1968 Conference of Non-Nuclear-Weapon States (United Nations document A/7277) and in the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. ABBREVIATIONS ABACC Brazilian–Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials AFRA African Co-operative Agreement for Research, Development and Training Related to Nuclear Science and Technology ARCAL Regional Co-operative Arrangements for the Promotion of Nuclear Science and Technology in Latin America BWR Boiling water reactor CRP Co-ordinated Research Project CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization Euratom European Atomic Energy Community FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FORATOM Forum Atomique Européen HWR Heavy water reactor IAEA-MEL IAEA Marine Environment Laboratory ICTP International Centre for Theoretical Physics IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis ILO International labour Organisation IMO International Maritime Organization INDC International Nuclear Data Committee IOC Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (UNESCO) ISO International Organization for Standardization LWR Light water reactor NEA Nuclear Energy Agency of the OECD OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OLADE Organización Latinoamericana de Energía OPANAL Organismo para la Proscripción de las Armas Nucleares en América Latina y el Caribe PAHO Pan American Health Organization/WHO PHWR Pressurized heavy water reactor PWR Pressurized water reactor RAF Regional Africa RAS Regional East Asia and Pacific RAW Regional West Asia RBMK Light boiling water cooled graphite moderated pressure tube reactor (former USSR) RCA Regional Co-operative Agreement for Research, Development and Training Related to Nuclear Science and Technology SQ Significant quantity t HM tonnes heavy metal UNDESA United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNEP United Nations Environment Programme UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNIDO United Nations Industrial Development Organization UNSCEAR United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation WCO World Customs Organization WEC World Energy Council WHO World Health Organization WTO World Trade Organization WWER Water cooled and moderated energy reactor (former USSR) CONTENTS Global Perspectives and Key Issues . 1 The Board of Governors and the General Conference . 17 THE AGENCY’S PROGRAMME IN 2000 Technology