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Published online 3 July 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.626
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Japanese diplomat elected to head atomic agency
Yukiya Amano set to succeed Mohamed ElBaradei.
By a razor-thin margin, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has voted in Japan's Yukiya Amano as its next director general.
Amano, 62, won the necessary two-thirds majority of the IAEA's 35-member board by a single vote on Thursday and was confirmed today.
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Looks to me as if, with Mr Amano, the government of the United States has found someone to head the agency that it believes can be kept safely in its pocket. Let us hope that Mr Amano proves that the contrary is true !... Henri