IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano Visits the Philippines. PNRI Newsletter, Vol. 6

Once again, the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute makes us all proud as it crowns the first quarter of 2015 with recognition and accomplishments. First among these was the successful visit of Director General Yukiya Amano of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last January 27-28, wherein he visited the various PNRI facilities and projects. His visit to the Philippines was part of a tour to Southeast Asian Member States of the IAEA, and the Director General was very pleased and impressed with our country's progress in nuclear science and technology. It is also my pleasure to formally announce that the PNRI is now certified under ISO 9001:2008 for Quality Management Systems, expanding from the Institute's Nuclear Regulatory QMS since 2008 to its current scope encompassing all the divisions of the PNRI. As I have always been saying, this is the product of team effort and we could not have done it without the work of each and everyone of us here at the Institute. PNRI continues to actively cooperate with the IAEA and other agencies in terms of workshops on nuclear safeguards & security,radioactive waste management and awareness on nuclear S&T. PNRI's partnership with the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) once again bore fruit with another batch of Follow-up Training Courses on Nuclear Emergency Preparedness and Response, Environmental Radioactivity Monitoring and Reactor Engineering. PNRI also does its part alongside our partners from various government agencies in a joint effort to protect the public. Preparations are already being made for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leader's Summit to be hosted by the Philippines in November this year. Indeed, PNRI has started the year right, and in light of these accomplishments, I would like to once again congratulate everyone in the Institute for a job well done. Still, we hope that this is only the beginning of an even more fruitful year, and we commit to fulfill our mandate to the best of our abilities.