Old nuclear facilities in the final stage of life cycle will be charged into decommissioning phase in near future. On the safeguards requirement in the additional protocol to safeguards agreements, the IAEA has a right and obligation to confirm the decommissioned status of such facilities. However, confirmation measures of these facilities have not been established and still be under...
In phasing out nuclear energy production, the German reactors will be successively disconnected from the power grid, the latest ones by 2022. It is foreseen that all spent fuel assemblies will be loaded into casks by the end of 2027. After their transfer to intermediate spent fuel storage facilities (SFSFs), the SFSFs altogether will have a static inventory of more than 1,000 casks. A...
As the economic and logistical landscape of the uranium enrichment industry has dramatically changed since the start of the decade due to various concurring events, this has brought additional challenges to safeguarding these types of facilities, in particular to performing material balance evaluation (MBE).
Gas centrifuge facilities have had to adjust their operations models to the market...
