The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) promotes in its Member States the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and radioactive materials, proposing mechanisms based on the provisions of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), which provide guarantees and avoid the diversion of this type of material that can be used in weapons and other explosive devices.
The...
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) is the State Regulatory Authority (SRA) in Canada and has the mandate to ensure the successful implementation of the Canada-International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement and Additional Protocol. The CNSC uses a variety of regulatory tools to implement safeguards requirements, including, inter alia, regulations,...
DEVELOPMENT OF SAFEGUARDS. BOLIVIA
In Bolivia, the Bolivian Nuclear Program (PNB) has been established, where the country is expected to make incursions into the Nuclear issue, initially projecting the construction of a Rector of Research.
In this sense, Bolivia must abide by international conventions such as Safeguards, with Bolivia also part of the Treaty for the Prescription of...
The IAEA faces increasing safeguards challenges and opportunities these days. Nuclear material and nuclear facilities and LOFs under IAEA safeguards have increased radically in the past decade, while the financial and human resources available for the IAEA have not followed the trend. In order to ensure the IAEA fulfil the Safeguards mission, the IAEA plans to strengthen partnerships with...
The paper attempts and presents a situational analysis and experiences of Malawi in implementation of safeguards. The paper is divided into three parts. Firstly the paper provides a background of the country in relation to the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Secondly the paper introduces what efforts Malawi has done to domestic the obligations of the NPT and lastly...
The Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials (ABACC) was created on July 1991, within the Agreement between the Republic of Argentina and the Federative Republic of Brazil for the Exclusively Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy (Bilateral Agreement). On December 1991, the Quadripartite Agreement was signed between the Republic of Argentina, the Federative Republic...
Enhanced co-operation arrangement between the IAEA and the ROK SSAC was signed on 14 June 2012 in line with evolving safeguards implementation. These arrangements are expanded to all nuclear fuel cycle-related facilities, activities and nuclear material in the ROK, requiring full use of the SSAC and avoiding unnecessary duplication of the State’s accounting and control activities. As a result...
This paper describes Tunisia’s efforts to establish a new nuclear legislative and regulatory framework. In particular, this new comprehensive nuclear law will help to bring into force the Additional Protocol that was signed on 24 May 2005 but not yet ratified.
Tunisia has always supported the international community efforts in strengthening the international safeguards regime. However,...
