Conveners
Main Plenary Session 1b: Nuclear Forensics Resources in the Legal and Nuclear Security Context
- W. I. Zidan (Egypt)
- A. Pavlenishvili (Georgia)
Dr
M.S. Wallenius
(EU)
07/07/2014, 15:30
Nuclear Forensics within a National Nuclear Security Infrastructure
Oral
Nuclear forensics is a relatively new and certainly a fascinating discipline in science gaining its attractiveness from the exploration of the unknown. As stated in the Communique of the Nuclear Security Summit held 2012 in Seoul “nuclear forensics can be an effective tool in determining the origin of detected nuclear and other radioactive materials and in providing evidence for the...
Mr
I. Khripunov
(United States of America)
07/07/2014, 15:50
Oral
Although nuclear security is primarily a national responsibility, the legal framework emerged and has been evolving because governments and international institutions recognize that threats to nuclear security have a global dimension. This imperative to work together gave rise to an international effort to build a nuclear-security framework to meet nuclear related threats. Its goal: a...
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Analysis of Incidents Reported during 2007-2012 to the IAEA’s Incident and Trafficking Database
Mr
M. Nicholas
(IAEA)
07/07/2014, 16:10
Oral
An analysis of incidents reported by States to the Incident and Trafficking Database (ITDB) during 2007-2012 has recently been completed by the IAEA’s Division of Nuclear Security. During this period, over 1200 incidents – approximately half of incidents reported to the ITDB since its establishment in 1995 - were reported to the ITDB. Approximately 50% of these incidents involved radioactive...
Dr
Z. Stefanka
(Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority)
07/07/2014, 16:30
Oral
A governmental decree titled ‘Physical protection of nuclear facilities, nuclear material, radioactive sources and radioactive waste and the related licensing and control system’ came into force on 4th of October 2011 regulating the process of developing physical protection systems of a nuclear facility, physical protection of nuclear and other radioactive materials during storage, application...
