Conveners
Assuring Quality in Safeguards Findings
- Craig Everton (Australia)
- Orpet Peixoto (ABACC)
Assuring Quality in Safeguards Findings
- Craig Everton (Australia)
- Orpet Peixoto (ABACC)
Craig Everton
(Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office)
21/10/2014, 09:10
oral
The fundamental purpose of IAEA safeguards is to maintain confidence in the international community of the compliance of States with their respective non-proliferation commitments. The safeguards system for ensuring this compliance produces the most important output, the IAEA’s compliance findings.
Confidence in the findings of any compliance verification system requires some basic elements...
Andreas Meyering
(URENCO Deutschland GmbH)
21/10/2014, 09:30
oral
The URENCO Group has operated uranium enrichment plants, using the gas centrifuge technology, for over forty years in Europe. Throughout this period, the plants have been subjected to the Euratom safeguards regime and during the late 1970’s the IAEA safeguards regime has been introduced as well. From thereon, the safeguards regimes of Euratom and IAEA have been brought more in line and...
Helene Nel
(Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa)
21/10/2014, 09:50
oral
The State System of Accounting and Control of Nuclear Material (SSAC) in South Africa comprises a State Inspectorate, Technical Support and Safeguards Information Systems (SIS). SIS is responsible for the quality control and assurance of the Nuclear Material Reports, Additional Protocol declarations and submission to the IAEA.
Monthly reports are received from the facilities where inventory...
Kalman Robertson
(Australia)
21/10/2014, 10:10
oral
Safeguards are arrangements for verifying that states are in compliance with international agreements or undertakings relating to the peaceful use of nuclear materials. The IAEA has operated a system of comprehensive safeguards agreements with non-nuclear-weapon states parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) for over forty years. This system has evolved over...
Yoshiki Goto
(Nuclear Material Control Center)
21/10/2014, 11:00
oral
The provision of the safeguards relevant reports and information in accordance with the comprehensive safeguards agreement (CSA) and the additional protocol (AP) is the basis for the IAEA safeguards.
The government of Japan (Japan Safeguards Office, JSGO) has believed that the correct reports contribute to effective and efficient safeguards therefore the domestic quality assurance system for...
David Hanks
(U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
21/10/2014, 11:20
oral
In recent years, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has benefited greatly from an increased number of data sources along with enhanced capabilities to assist safeguards inspectors who analyze this new data. However, the quality and reliability of State declared information used by the IAEA to draw safeguards conclusions remains critically important. Each State or Regional...
Paul Meylemans
(European Commission, DG Energy, Nuclear Safeguards)
21/10/2014, 11:40
oral
We present the EURATOM nuclear safeguards system, a supranational system used to verify the operators’ and States’ (when required by the Additional Protocol) declarations. The verifications performed by the European Commission serve to conclude on the non-diversion of the civil stocks of nuclear materials in the territories of EU Member States (Article 77a EURATOM Treaty) and to fulfil...
Snezana Konecni
(IAEA SGCP/CPD)
21/10/2014, 12:00
oral
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Department of Safeguards quality management system (QMS) provides the framework for all activities that support the Agency’s commitment to providing soundly-based safeguards conclusions regarding the peaceful use of nuclear material. The focus of the QMS is to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of safeguards implementation through defined,...
