Notes from the IAEA's 53rd General Assembly
18 Sep 2009
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Neil Calder
The 53rd General Meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was held in Vienna this week. The first session of the General Meeting was marked by the final address as Director-General by Mohamed ElBaradei.
The appointment of Ambassador Yukiya Amano of Japan as the next Director-General as of 1 December 2009 was approved.
US Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, held a press conference at the meeting. In reply to a question on fusion he stated "Fusion is potentially very important but °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ is still an experiment. We have to wait for results. In the meantime, the world has to move ahead now with a wide range of energy research".