TC Project Profiles
Agriculture
Enhancing the quality and yield of rice in Vietnam
- Improving livestock production while conserving the environment in the Asia and Pacific region
- Improving the common bean in Costa Rica
- Improving livestock productivity through integrated techniques in Africa
- Monitoring food fortification programmes in the Asia Pacific region using nuclear techniques
- Eradicating tsetse fly from the Southern Rift Valley, Ethiopia
- Developing drought resistant wheat for Kenya’s drylands
- Using diagnostic kits to detect major animal diseases in Senegal
- Eliminating fruit pests in South Africa
- Developing drought tolerant sorghum for food, animal feed and the bioethanol industry, Indonesia
- Breeding salt- tolerant rice, Pakistan
- Enhancing genetic diversity in crops, Mongolia
- Improving milk and beef production in Honduras
- Increasing productivity in barley crops and native varieties of grain, Peru
- Controlling fruit flies to boost the export of fruits and vegetables (Latin America)
Environment
- Managing the legacy of uranium mining and milling in Central Asia
- Strengthening the national environmental monitoring system in the marine ecosystem in Guatemala
- Assessing radioactivity in the Gulf of Aqaba, Jordan
- Monitoring the environment in Peruvian mining areas
- Nitrate and pesticide monitoring and modelling in Slovenia
- Rehabilitating agricultural products from the territories affected by the 1986 accident at Chernobyl
- Generating data for air quality management, Metro Manila, Philippines
- Controlling air pollution in Mexico City
- Using oysters as ‘marine sentinels’ to guard against poisoned seafood, Cuba
Human Health
- Establishing a nuclear medicine centre in Sana’a, Yemen
- Improving programmes for the reduction of childhood malnutrition in Latin America
- Improving radiotherapy quality in Asia & the Pacific
- Sterilizing human tissue in Uruguay
- Upgrading nuclear medicine capabilities in Senegal
- Producing hydrogel membranes to treat burns patients in Cuba
- Radiotherapy: A growing priority for Ghana
- Improving the quality of medical physics and radiotherapy in Lithuania
- Promoting the use of nuclear medicine for early diagnosis of disease in Africa
- Tumour imaging using radioisotopes in Asia and the Pacific
- Controlling fascioliasis in Latin America
- Using cyclotrons and PET scans to improve cancer diagnosis and treatment in Thailand
- Screening for congenital abnormalities in newborns, Uruguay
- Supporting the UNAIDS-WHO African Aids Vaccine Programme
- Detecting drug- resistant tuberculosis (Africa)
- Detecting drug-resistant malaria (Africa)
- Fighting cancer in Zambia
- Neonatal screening for congenital hypothyroidism in the Philippines
- Speeding up diagnostics with modern imaging technology in the Czech Republic
- Improving cancer care in the Dominican Republic
- Enhancing nuclear medicine in Havana, Cuba
HR Training
- Introducing ICT based training methods to strengthen training capacity in AFRA Member States
- Establishing a training centre for the Paks nuclear power plant in Hungary
- Building global competence in radiation protection through education and training
Isotope Hydrology and Water Resources
- Protecting and managing water resources in Algeria
- Investigating and managing groundwater and geothermal resources in the Afar rift valley, Ethiopia
- Sustainable development of groundwater resources in southern and eastern Africa
- Identifying safe drinking water, Bangladesh
- Sustainable development of the Upper Lempa River water basin: El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras
Nuclear Energy
- Completing the Atucha II Nuclear Power Plant in Argentina
- Exploring the nuclear power option in Tunisia
- Strengthening planning capabilities for sustainable energy development in Africa
- Establishing sustainable and diversified energy in Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast
- Capacity building for sustainable energy development in Pakistan
- Assessing energy options and strategies in Mexico
Nuclear Technology
Improving non-destructive testing capabilities in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
- Preserving cultural heritage artefacts in Latin America
- SESAME Synchrotron light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East
- Using radioisotope technology for natural resource exploration and exploitation
- Protecting cultural heritage artefacts in the Mediterranean region
- Expanding microanalytical capabilities in Slovenia
- Radiation processing for materials and environmental applications, Algeria
- Upgrading technical capacities in non-destructive testing in Cameroon
- Identifying hazardous materials, Madagascar
- Conserving cultural heritage in Croatia
Safety & Security
- Enhancing nuclear security in Africa
- Establishing radiological and nuclear emergency response capabilities in Europe
- Improved radioactive waste management for the United Republic of Tanzania
- Research reactor fuel repatriation in Europe
- Strengthening the safe management of radioactive waste in Latin America
- Regaining control over orphan sources in China
- Improving the quality and safety of radiotherapy services in Europe
- Strengthening regulatory capabilities and radiation protection in Lithuania
- Safe transport of nuclear and radioactive material in Latin America
- Improving regulatory infrastructure to increase nuclear safety and radiation protection
- Enhancing the operational safety of nuclear power plants
- Strengthening radiation safety infrastructures
