IAEA Symposium on International Safeguards

The Belgian Support Programme to IAEA: past, present and future

Not scheduled

1m

M Building (Vienna International Centre)

Contributor (Panel Session) Leveraging technological advancements for safeguards applications (TEC) [TEC] Improving Coordination of Safeguards R&D

Speaker

Dr Alessandro Borella (SCK-CEN)

Description

Established 1982, the Belgian Support Programme to IAEA is managed by the Belgian Nuclear research Centre SCK-CEN. The contributions are in-kind and typically in the form of providing expert advice in different topics or providing access to existing facilities. In this paper, we give first a brief overview of past and current tasks of the Belgian Support Programme to IAEA. We show then how the current tasks fit the development and implementations support programme for nuclear verification 2018-2019 and the research and development plan. We also propose areas where the we envisage contributions in the coming years according to the existing expertise at the Belgian Nuclear research Centre SCK-CEN.