Zeinabou Mindaoudou Souley (born 1964) is a Nigerien physicist. She leads the organisation that gathers the data necessary to check whether there has been a test of a nuclear explosive as part of nuclear non-proliferation oversight for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization in Vienna.
In 2011, she began a decade of lecturing at Abdou Moumouni University in Niamey. In 2014, she became the chairperson of the High Authority for Atomic Energy of Niger. Her organisation operated stations that detected nuclear explosive testing in Niger.[1] Niger established its own Nuclear regulatory authority and passed an all encompassing nuclear law.[2]
In 2018, it was recognised that Niger was in the early stages of starting a nuclear energy programme, but at the government's invitation, the International Atomic Energy Agency delivered a report evaluating Niger's progress against 19 issues to the Minister of Energy Amina Moumouni. Souley was present as President of the High Authority for Atomic Energy of Niger.[2]
In 2022, she visited American expert organisations. She went to Germantown in Maryland to see the company that supplies the data network before visiting a company in Chantilly, Virginia who operate eleven monitoring stations that use a number of complementary detectors including seismic and the sensing of radionuclides.[4]