Senior DOE Leaders Mourn IAEA Boss Amano

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Senior leaders at the Department of Energy offered condolences Monday for the family of Yukiya Amano, who died latelast week after announcing he would resign as director general of the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA).The agency, which guards against the spread of fissile material and promotes the peaceful use of nuclear energy,announced Amano’s death in a statement Monday. The U.N. did not detail the cause of death. Media reported last weekthat Amano, 72, would step down early into his third four-year term as director general due to poor health.