Euratom Safeguards: Improving Safeguards by Cooperation in R&D and Implementation

Euratom Safeguards, implemented on the basis of the EURATOM Treaty by the European Commission’s Directorate Nuclear Safeguards within the Directorate General for Energy, is the largest Regional Safeguards System and involved in many R&D activities of its own, often in close cooperation with external partners. Most of the results of these activities are shared with or offered to the IAEA. This paper describes work complementary to the projects run by the European Commission Cooperative Support Programme (ECSP) to the IAEA, described elsewhere at this conference. We attempt to provide an overview on some of the R&D activities run in addition to the ECSP, and will link them to the capabilities discussed by the IAEA as part of the Long Term R&D Plan 2012. Our range of topics will include work on unattended data acquisition systems (hard- and software), advanced data analysis tools, news from seals related technology, containment and design verification applications of 3D lasers, etc. Work done with the IAEA in preparation of new facilities and facility types will be discussed briefly. The paper will also highlight some current challenges and make suggestions how to address them.

SCHWALBACH Peter;  SCHOOP K.;  ANCIUS Darius;  SMEJKAL Andreas;  MARSZALEK Yvan;  MATLOCH Lukasz;  VACCARO Stefano;  DE BAERE Paul;  KOUTSOYANNOPOULUS C.;  MEYLEMANS Paul;  MURTEZI M.;  PERSSON L.;  SYNETOS S.;  TEMPESTA Stephane;  CANADELL BOFARULL V.;  TURNER D.P.;  PEERANI Paolo;  GONCALVES Joao;  BERNDT Reinhard;  STRINGA Elena;  RICHIR Patrice;  SEQUEIRA Vitor;  TAGZIRIA Hamid;  JANSSENS Willem;  ZULEGER Evelyn;  LUETZENKIRCHEN Klaus; 

2015-01-23

IAEA

JRC92267

http://www.iaea.org/safeguards/symposium/2014/home/eproceedings/sg2014_eproceedings_online.pdf,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC92267,