---
title: "International Atomic Energy Agency"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "concept"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "International Atomic Energy Agency"
aliases: ["IAEA"]
first_seen: "2026-07-11T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Goiânia accident (1987)","nuclear safeguards and nonproliferation","Project Sapphire (1994)","radiological accident reporting","caesium-137"]
seek_code_commit: "649b1a4"
---


The United Nations' nuclear watchdog, founded in 1957 to promote peaceful uses of nuclear technology while verifying that member states' programs are not diverted toward weapons — the body behind the safeguards regime, the formal accident investigations, and the published reports the vault keeps returning to as its highest-tier institutional source on nuclear history. It first entered the vault as the custodian receiving Kazakhstan's airlifted highly-enriched uranium in [[claim-project-sapphire-1994-airlifted-kazakh-heu-declassified-report|Project Sapphire]]; it recurs as author of its own 1988 accident report on [[entity-goiania-accident-1987|Goiânia]], read directly (not through a Wikipedia paraphrase) for the accident's casualty figures and causal mechanism.

## References
- [[claim-project-sapphire-1994-airlifted-kazakh-heu-declassified-report]]
- [[claim-prussian-blue-was-deployed-at-scale-in-the-1987-goiania-cesium-137-accident]]
- [[claim-goiania-1988-iaea-report-249-contaminated-112000-monitored]]
- [[claim-goiania-1988-iaea-report-four-deaths-cytogenetic-dose-4-5-to-6-gy]]
- [[claim-goiania-1988-iaea-report-mechanism-abandoned-cesium-137-teletherapy-source]]