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AGA: Arbeitsgruppe Physik und Abrüstung

AGA 5: Nuclear Verification and Detection

AGA 5.2: Invited Talk

Friday, March 18, 2011, 11:00–12:00, MENSA Dül

Nuclear Safeguards R & D Structure in Germany: Coordinating the German Support Programme to the IAEA — •Irmgard Niemeyer, Martin Dürr, and Bernd Richter — Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institut für Energie- und Klimaforschung, IEK-6: Sicherheitsforschung und Reaktortechnik

Nuclear safeguards are measures by which the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) can verify that a State is in compliance with its international commitments not to use nuclear programmes for nuclear-weapons purposes. Being an UN Organisation, the IAEA does not have the resources to perform its own R&D programme and therefore relies on its Member States to be supported with the latest technologies and methodologies. In 1978, the IAEA and the German Government agreed upon the "Joint Programme on the Technical Development and Further Improvement of IAEA Safeguards". Up till now, the programme comprised more than 150 tasks, providing not only R&D, but also training of IAEA staff, consultancy support, and the delegation of 17 cost-free experts to the IAEA. The R&D support covers a wide variety of issues, such as measurement methods and techniques, safeguards data, containment and surveillance techniques, safeguards approaches and concepts for future technologies. Since summer 1985, Forschungszentrum Juelich has coordinated the programme implementation in close cooperation with the German Government. The presentation highlights past and ongoing safeguards R&D activities and discusses new challenges, e.g. the detection of undeclared nuclear materials and activities, state-specific safeguards approaches and disarmament efforts.