Integration of Nuclear Safeguards and Security at the JRC

At political level, security and safeguards remain in separate hands. Safeguards are implemented by international and national authorities through an international treaty, while security is an important national responsibility. At a technical level the synergies between safeguards and security lead to their integration allowing better optimization of the resources and important benefit from exchange of experience and expertise between the two systems. In this paper, we will illustrate this integration process between nuclear security and safeguards. Many examples will be presented such as: non destructive assay (NDA) in nuclear safeguard /detection and identification of illicit nuclear and radioactive materials, destructive analysis (DA) and environmental sampling in nuclear safeguards/ nuclear forensic, use of seals in nuclear security for containers, combined camera and gamma/neutron source for source localisation in luggage, Open source information, export controls are also areas were the integration is possible.

ABOUSAHL Said;  FRIGOLA Pierre;  GONCALVES Joao;  AREGBE Yetunde;  BERNDT Reinhard;  COJAZZI Giacomo;  PEERANI Paolo;  MAYER Klaus;  HEDBERG Magnus;  LITTMANN Francois;  SEQUEIRA Vitor;  JANSSENS Willem;  LUETZENKIRCHEN Klaus; 

2011-12-01

International Atomic Energy Agency

JRC61800

http://www.iaea.org/OurWork/SV/Safeguards/Symposium/2010/Documents/PapersRepository/2255344543972513139540.pdf,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC61800,