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Source: Time (Ecocentric Blog)
Date: Thursday, June 2, 2011 at 1:06 pm
by:  Eben Harrell

Former IAEA deputy director Olli Heinonen

In the wake of Fukushima, there have been widespread calls for the safety of nuclear power plants to be enhanced. But how precisely? And, more specifically, what role can the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) play in improving nuclear safety and security? Olli Heinonen was until last August the Deputy Director-General for Safeguards at the IAEA. He's now a Senior Fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

On May 26, Heinonen co-authored an Op-Ed on the Harvard website with Matthew Bunn, an Associate Professor of Public Policy and one of the main investigators at the Belfer Center's Managing the Atom project. The duo laid out some specific steps that they believe the IAEA should adopt at the Vienna-based agency's ministerial meeting in late June. The full text of the document can be found here, but here's a precis.
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