Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire

Thursday, June 1, 2017

Mr Mr Alodan Maher A, Chief Atomic Energy Officer, King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy and Mr Dazhu Yang, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Technical Cooperation. (photo: J/Krickl/IAEA)

Mr Alodan Maher A, Chief Atomic Energy Officer, King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy, Saudi Arabia, and Mr Dazhu Yang, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Technical Cooperation, have signed Saudi Arabia’s Country Programme Framework (CPF) for the period of 2017–2021 on 30 May 2017. A CPF is the frame of reference for the medium-term planning of technical cooperation between a Member State and the IAEA and identifies priority areas where the transfer of nuclear technology and technical cooperation resources will be directed to support national development goals.
Saudi Arabia has been an IAEA Member State since 1962. Its 2017–20121 CPF identifies 13 priority areas:

Nuclear Energy, Planning and Implementation
Regulatory Infrastructure for Radiation and Nuclear Safety
Research Reactor
Nuclear Security and Safeguards
Uranium exploration and investment
Radioactive Waste Management
Water Resource Management and desalination
Environmental Monitoring
Human Health
Emergency Preparedness and Response
Radioisotopes Applications and Utilization in Food and Agriculture and Industrial Applications
Human Resources Development for various nuclear applications
Value Chains and Industrial Relations