Dr
Zsolt Stefanka
(Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority)
Shaping the future of safeguards implementation (SGI)
Roundtable Member
In 2015, the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority introduced Safeguards Performance Assessment Indexes (SPAI) to evaluate the annual performance of a facility’s nuclear safeguards system. The aim of the development of these indexes was the timely observation of occurring changes and of deviations from the optimal operation, and the early identification of issues to provide the possibility to...
Mrs
Sarah Frazar
(Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Shaping the future of safeguards implementation (SGI)
Roundtable Member
State Systems of Accounting for and Control of Nuclear Materials (SSAC) are the organizational arrangements at a national level that enable countries to manage their nuclear materials and meet their international safeguards obligations to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). As such, SSAC performance can play an important role in determining how the IAEA allocates and spends its...
Mr
Dinesh Humagain
(Ministry of Education,Science and Technology, Nepal)
Shaping the future of safeguards implementation (SGI)
Roundtable Member
Radiation technology is being used in Nepal for a long time. Nepal has signed some treaties to ensure safe and peaceful uses of nuclear material and technology. However, it still does not have a robust licensing regime.
Nepal has a National Nuclear Policy, Regulatory Directives, all these have no binding force.
Therefore, Nepal urgently needs a Nuclear Safety Act which is under...
Ms
Angela Sidorencu
(National Agency for Regulation of Nuclear and Radiological Activities)
Shaping the future of safeguards implementation (SGI)
Roundtable Member
Republic of Moldova being a state with Small Quantities Protocol is committed to fulfilling its safeguards obligations. The Republic of Moldova is party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and has in force a Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement with International Atomic Energy Agency, with a modified Small Quantities Protocol, and an Additional Protocol. It fulfills its...