Three new candidates have been put forward in the contest for the director-general of the IAEA after Mohamed ElBaradei announced he would not continue in the post after November 2009.
They are Spain's Luis Echávarri, Slovenia's Ernest Petric and Belgium's Jean-Pol Poncelet. They join two previous candidates, Japan's Yukiya Amano and South Africa's Abdul Samad Minty.
In March, neither of the previous two candidates were able to muster a two-thirds majority from the 35-member board of governors required for nomination to the director-general post, although Amano only just missed out.
ElBaradei was made the IAEA director in 1997, and was reelected in 2001 and 2005.
Related ArticlesCentrica buys 20% stake in BE EDF meets with UK suppliers Rolls Royce joins up with EDF European Pressurized Water Reactor to be built at Flamanville UK government plans to build carbon price floor Second EPR for France Enel and EDF lay plans for a nuclear Italy
