Technical Meeting on Nuclear Forensics: From National Foundations to Global Impact

Session

Oral Session #1 – Legal Framework and the CPPNM/A

O-1

11 Apr 2022, 14:30

Board Room A (Vienna International Center)

Conveners

Oral Session #1 – Legal Framework and the CPPNM/A

• Vitaly Fedchenko (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)

62. Challenges in establishing and maintaining a national nuclear forensics support framework and importance of international cooperation

Ababacar Sadikhe Ndao (Institut de Technologie nucleaire appliquee)

3.3 Sustaining a National Nuclear Forensics Capability: Challenges and Considerations

Oral

The field of nuclear forensics is recognized as an indispensable tool in the management of nuclear security events, in particular those resulting from the trafficking of nuclear materials and nuclear materials beyond regulatory control. During this decade, the agency, in cooperation with certain specialized organizations and other partners, has developed various nuclear forensics tools,...

34. Overview of criminal legislation and nuclear forensics capabilities in Western Balkan countries

Prof. Jovana Nikolov (University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences)

2.1 Integration of Nuclear Forensics in a National Response Framework

Oral

The Western Balkan (WB) countries are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia. All of them except Bosnia and Herzegovina are European Union (EU) membership candidates. Western Balkan countries are a part of the European neighborhood that is also close geographically and in terms of trade and smuggling routes to the Black Sea region, which is widely recognized as...

3. REGULATORY AUTHORITY ACTIVITIES IN SUPPORT TO NUCLEAR FORENSICS

Ramin Pashayev (Head of Department on Special permission and State registry of the State Agency on Nuclear and Radiological Activity Regulations (Regulatory Authority) of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Azerbaijan)

3.3 Sustaining a National Nuclear Forensics Capability: Challenges and Considerations

Oral

1. INTRODUCTION
   The nuclear forensics is the process of comparing sample characteristics with existing information about the types of material the origin and methods of production of nuclear and other radioactive material or previous cases associated with similar material. Thus, nuclear forensics regarded as a new area of integrated science research that allows not only to identify...

17. The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO) and the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (PNRI) Collaboration on Nuclear Forensics and Border Protection

Vallerie Ann Samson (Philippine Nuclear Research Institute)

1.1 Lessons Learned and New Virtual Initiatives for Nuclear Forensics Capacity Building considering the pandemic

Oral

The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO) and the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (PNRI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) last January 2021. The partnership of ANSTO and PNRI covers a wide range of applications, such as Nuclear Forensics, Emergency Preparedness, Border Security Protection, Environmental Protection, Radiation Safety, and Advanced...

36. Use of Nuclear Forensics Capacities to Support National Enforcement of and Demonstrate Compliance with International Nuclear Counter-Terrorism Legal Instruments

Jerry Davydov (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

2.2 Good Practices in Establishing a Nuclear Forensics Legal Framework

Oral

The development of national nuclear forensic science, commonly referred to as nuclear forensics, capacities offers states a meaningful mechanism to contribute to enforcement of national laws related to nuclear or other radioactive material out of regulatory control in line with key international nuclear counter-terrorism legal instruments.

While no single encompassing international legal...