Overview

• Minister Grace Fu and IAEA Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi signed the renewed Third Country Training Programme at the National University of Singapore on July 25.
• The updated agreement focuses on human health applications, industrial radiography, environmental radioactivity monitoring and accelerator science.
• It explicitly bars military and defence-related uses, underscoring Singapore’s commitment to safe and peaceful nuclear technology.
• Since 2000, the programme has trained over 140 experts from 27 countries through 17 fellowships and seven capacity-building initiatives.
• Singapore has yet to decide on nuclear power adoption but, under IAEA guidance, could deploy small modular reactors in the next few years as part of its low-carbon energy strategy.