Dr Alejandro Zurita is a nuclear engineer at UPC Barcelona and holds a PhD from TU Hannover. He served as Head of International Nuclear Research Cooperation (fusion and fission) at the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) from 2008 to 2016, and later as Minister-Counsellor for Science, Technology, and Innovation for the European Union in Brazil and CELAC from 2016 to 2020.
How the nuclear issue has been manipulated for geopolitical objectives In 1968, Iran signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which seeks to prevent the proliferation of atomic weapons, advance atomic disarmament, and address the peaceful use of nuclear energy under the safeguards regime of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Within this framework,…
After twenty months of multilateral negotiations, the Iran nuclear deal, formally called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was signed in Vienna on 14 July 2015. The signatories were, on one side Iran, and on the other side the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, i.e. China, France, Russia, UK and US, together…
For the first time in history, a nuclear power plant has become a military objective during a war. While previous military operations at the Iraqi Osirak reactor (1981), the Iranian Bushehr plant (1987) and the Slovenian Krško plant (1991) were somewhat ad hoc, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant continues to be contested between the parties…
More than support for the candidates, it seems that voters’ rejection of Bolsonaro or Lula will decide the presidential elections. A ‘country-continent’ with 215 million inhabitants, twice the size of the European Union and the leading power in Latin America. This is Brazil, a federal republic with a presidential system made up of 26 states…
The nuclear safety standards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) do not contain guidance or recommendations in the context of warlike scenarios. Since the beginning of the war last February, several Ukrainian nuclear facilities have suffered or are suffering from the effects of military operations taking place in their vicinity. Such operations have taken…
