IAEA Symposium on International Safeguards

Safeguards Information Security in Practice at Nuclear Regulatory Authority

5 Nov 2018, 16:30

5m

M Building (Vienna International Centre)

Roundtable Member Addressing Growing Safeguards Challenges (CHA) [CHA] Keeping Pace with IT Security - Threat Intelligence for the IAEA/Nuclear Regulatory World

Speaker

Dr Emmanuel Ampomah-Amoako (Nuclear Regulatory Authority, Ghana)

Description

The security of information related to safeguards has been carefully ensured at the Nuclear Regulatory Authority, Ghana. An integrated management system is currently under development at the Authority which is integrating the various procedures and strategies for ensuring effective implementation of the regulatory mandate. The classification of correspondence is carefully undertaken to ensure that safeguards-related data does not get into wrong hands. The measures taken to secure the safeguards information in the conduct of the conversion of Ghana Research Reactor-1 from high-enriched uranium to low-enriched uranium fuel is presented. The improvements in securing safeguards information envisaged from the implementation of the integrated management system is presented as well.