FINAL IAEA Draft, In late January 1978 an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nuclear safeguards inspector, Pierre Noir, died while inspecting a nuclear reactor in Taiwan. Initial reports indicated Noir had died of a heart attack. However, after carefully examining the TV surveillance equipment that Noir was working on I proved he had actually been electrocuted because of an electrical wiring flaw. This memoir, which I wrote in 2022, details my investigation.

The death of inspector Noir has had limited discussions in the open literature.  Here is what I’ve found:

Hearings Before the Subcommittees on International Security and Scientific Affairs and on International Economic Policy of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-Seventh Congress, Second Sessions, March 3 and 18, 1982, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington 1982. Appendix 15, pp. 277-78.

Elisabeth Roehrlich, Inspectors for Peace, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2022, pp.150-51.

A website blog that deals with arms control: Arms Control Wonk, www.armscontrolwonk.com. If you search for Pierre Noir you will find several discussions about this accident.