Andrea Favalli
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Leveraging technological advancements for safeguards applications (TEC)
Contributor (Panel Session)
Global modern nuclear fuel designs are trending to higher enrichment with a larger number of burnable fuel pins to more fully extract the available energy via higher burn up. These design changes challenge current fresh fuel safeguards measures and is one example of how safeguards adaptation is needed to address industry development. We will present a concept of how a collaboration that...
Mr
Bruce Moran
(Y-12 National Security Complex)
Leveraging technological advancements for safeguards applications (TEC)
Contributor (Panel Session)
In 1988, several States began activities supporting the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in developing safeguards policy and approaches for the application of safeguards for the final disposal of spent fuel in geological repositories. These activities were coordinated through IAEA Member State Support Programs, including the multi-member State Program for the Development of Safeguards...
Mr
Alexey Prosyanov
(ROSATOM)
Leveraging technological advancements for safeguards applications (TEC)
Panelist (Panel Session)
The IAEA Safeguards system has been constantly under development since the moment of its establishment in the 60’s of XX century. It is connected to the need of facing all the challenges of technical (the emergence of new types of nuclear facilities), institutional (the establishment of the NPT, the conclusion of various international arrangements requiring the IAEA control) and economic...
Dr
Christopher Ramos
(National Nuclear Security Administration)
Leveraging technological advancements for safeguards applications (TEC)
Panelist (Panel Session)
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation (DNN) Office of Proliferation Detection funds research and development (R&D) that improves the efficiency and effectiveness of current safeguards and efforts to strengthen existing safeguards measures to detect material diversion in declared facilities. DNN R&D develops advanced tools and methods to provide...
Ms
Anne-Laure WEBER
(IRSN)
Leveraging technological advancements for safeguards applications (TEC)
Contributor (Panel Session)
An international database of gamma ray-spectra acquired on uranium, plutonium and mixed oxides (MOX) materials has been developed under the auspices of the International Working Group on Gamma Spectrometry Techniques (IWG-GST) as an online repository to test and validate codes developed for U and Pu isotopics determination from gamma-ray spectrometry. Such database of reference spectra will be...
Dr
Zdenka Palajova
(EC JRC)
Leveraging technological advancements for safeguards applications (TEC)
Contributor (Panel Session)
The European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) plays a crucial role in research and training for both Euratom and IAEA safeguards regimes. However, the mission of the JRC is much broader with three quarters of its activities carried out in non-nuclear fields; working on a number of policy issues ranging from food security to machine learning, from nanotechnology to Earth observation. The...
Kamel Abbas
(Europena Commission, Joint Research Centre)
Leveraging technological advancements for safeguards applications (TEC)
Panelist (Panel Session)
Development of new non-destructive assay (NDA) techniques for charactering nuclear or other radioactive materials for both nuclear safeguards and security is challenging for many research organizations. In this regard, the Integrated Support Center for Nuclear Security and Nuclear Nonproliferation of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (ISCN JAEA) and the Nuclear Security Unit of the Joint Research...
Dr
Alessandro Borella
(SCK-CEN)
Leveraging technological advancements for safeguards applications (TEC)
Contributor (Panel Session)
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...
Dr
Kalman Robertson
(IAEA Safeguards Section, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade)
Leveraging technological advancements for safeguards applications (TEC)
Panelist (Panel Session)
IAEA safeguards inspections often involve inspectors making repetitive, time-consuming measurements of nuclear material in parts of nuclear facilities that may be difficult to access or have elevated radiation levels. Advances in the field of robotics have opened up the possibility that autonomous systems could assist inspectors to complete repetitive inspection tasks more efficiently and...
