{"id":21382,"date":"2021-09-02T17:30:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T11:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/?p=21382"},"modified":"2021-09-02T17:31:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T11:46:10","slug":"iaea-supports-lebanon-in-assessing-integrity-of-buildings-impacted-in-last-years-beirut-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/iaea-supports-lebanon-in-assessing-integrity-of-buildings-impacted-in-last-years-beirut-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"IAEA Supports Lebanon in Assessing Integrity of Buildings Impacted in Last Year’s Beirut Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Beirut, Lebanon<\/em>\u2014 An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts is in Lebanon this week to help strengthen its capability to examine the integrity of buildings impacted in last year\u2019s port explosion in Beirut. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team is training national authorities and professionals in conducting non-destructive testing (NDT) to check the structural soundness of such buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NDT is used to evaluate the integrity and properties of components, machinery, and structures without damaging the tested object. Many buildings directly affected by the devastating blast in August 2020 remain standing and the use of NDT will help to identify if and where any repairs are required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe IAEA\u2019s NDT-related expertise can play a crucial role in disaster prevention and management,\u201d said IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi. \u201cThe Agency is providing technical support in this area to help Lebanon examine whether damaged buildings are safe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The IAEA team \u2013 including three experts from Italy, Malaysia and Spain, and one IAEA staff member \u2013 is carrying out practical NDT training with specialized equipment in buildings in central Beirut that were affected by the explosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IAEA states, the Agency has also supported Lebanon\u2019s emergency response efforts in other areas, including by\u00a0sending an Assistance Mission<\/a>\u00a0to Lebanon in September 2020. It concluded that radiation levels had not increased as a result of the blast. The Agency also provided health-related support, as many hospitals were damaged in the explosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have faced many challenges in our response to the explosion,\u201d said Mr Bilal Nsouli, Director General of the Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission (LAEC). \u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic has added a layer of complexity. The IAEA\u2019s support will help us to develop a sustainable national capability to use NDT in multiple locations throughout the city.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Agency has previously provided NDT training and equipment to countries affected by earthquakes, including in Albania in 2019,\u00a0Mexico<\/a>\u00a0and Ecuador in 2018 and\u00a0Nepal<\/a>\u00a0in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beirut, Lebanon\u2014 An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts is in Lebanon this week to help strengthen its capability to examine the integrity of buildings impacted in last year\u2019s port explosion in Beirut. The team is training national authorities and professionals in conducting non-destructive testing (NDT) to check the structural soundness of such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/iaea-logo.png",1024,773,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/iaea-logo-200x200.png",200,200,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/iaea-logo-530x400.png",530,400,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/iaea-logo-768x580.png",750,566,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/iaea-logo-675x510.png",675,510,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/iaea-logo.png",1024,773,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/iaea-logo.png",1024,773,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/iaea-logo.png",1024,773,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/iaea-logo.png",755,570,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/iaea-logo.png",600,453,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/iaea-logo.png",600,453,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/iaea-logo-760x490.png",760,490,true],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/iaea-logo-550x360.png",550,360,true],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/iaea-logo-95x65.png",95,65,true],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/iaea-logo.png",640,483,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/iaea-logo.png",96,72,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/iaea-logo.png",150,113,false]},"author_info":{"info":["RevoScience"]},"category_info":"News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}