As Bangladesh recently gains the graduation status of LDC, its demand of electricity would be higher to meet up the growing criteria of the status. Seeing such possibilities, Bangladesh adopted the strategy of utilizing nuclear energy for power generation a decade back to mitigate the growing need of the country’s energy requirements. Much of the promises in regards to this has been made. The...
Historically, safeguarding nuclear facilities was often considered after completion of the facility design or even construction of the facility. Incorporating safeguards early in the design process can enhance the safeguardability of a nuclear facility by influencing and becoming part of the intrinsic design.
Considering International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards verification...
The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) began the construction of Unit1 of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant in 2012, with Units 2, 3 and 4 following in 2013, 2014 and 2015 respectively. The United Arab Emirates was already party to the NPT, had a comprehensive safeguards agreement in force and ratified an Additional Protocol.
A Department of Safeguards and Export Control was established...
The aim of the paper is to present feedback and share lessons learned by Jordan during the process of scaling up its safeguards infrastructure to address the challenges and to meet the requirements of a nuclear power program. This was led by making full use of IAEA review missions and other IAEA advisory services. Three main areas were discussed in order to ensure the effective and efficient...
After several decades of collaboration with several Member-State Support Programmes, the IAEA has authorized for inspection a passive gamma emission tomography (PGET) capability for the underwater verification of spent nuclear fuel. In a single five-minute measurement, the PGET system integrates three inspection methods: gross neutron and gamma-ray counting; medium-resolution gamma-ray...
