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Professor of Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

This travel case holds a toolkit containing equipment for inspecting nuclear facilities. Dean Calma/IAEA

July 21, 2025

How the world’s nuclear watchdog monitors facilities around the world – and what it means that Iran kicked it out

Anna Erickson, Georgia Institute of Technology

A nuclear engineer explains how the International Atomic Energy Agency monitors peaceful nuclear programs, and why it’s worrisome that Iran stopped cooperating with the IAEA.

An image from Iranian television shows centrifuges lining a hall at Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment facility in 2021. IRIB via APPEAR

July 1, 2025

Why the US bombed a bunch of metal tubes − a nuclear engineer explains the importance of centrifuges to Iranian efforts to build nuclear weapons

Anna Erickson, Georgia Institute of Technology

Iran has a long history of enriching uranium in an effort to develop nuclear weapons. It’s not clear how far the US attack set back Iran’s production of bomb-grade uranium.

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