Tackling Tuwaitha´s Radioactive Ruins The Iraqi Government has
requested the IAEA's assistance to prepare plans and programmes
to decommission contaminated facilities in the country. (Photo:
U.S. Department of State.) - Story Resources - Photo Essay:
Tackling Tuwaitha´s Radioactive Ruins - Bureau of International
Security and Nonproliferation (ISN), US Department of State -
IAEA Decommissioning Programme - IAEA Decommissioning Global
Action Plan [pdf] - IAEA Press Release, April 2003 - IAEA Report
on Tuwaitha Nuclear Material, July 2003 [pdf] - IAEA Safeguards
Inspection, September 2005 - IAEA Report to Security Council,
October 2005 - IAEA & Iraq Findings Some 1000 Iraqi men, women
and children in a village near the former Tuwaitha nuclear site
are living inside an area contaminated by radioactive residues
and ruins. A project to clean-up the site, and other
contaminated facilities in Iraq, was kick-started earlier this
year at IAEA headquarters. Inhabitants of the Ishtar village,
based within the Tuwaitha s