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AGA: Arbeitsgruppe Physik und Abrüstung

AGA 1: Nuclear Energy and Security (Joint Session AKE-AGA)

AGA 1.2: Invited Talk

Wednesday, March 29, 2017, 17:15–17:45, S Aula

Safeguards and Non-Proliferation experience from an IAEA perspective — •Tariq Rauf — formerly IAEA, Head Verification and Security Policy, Vienna

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been implementing nuclear safeguards for more than half a century covering peaceful nuclear activities. IAEA safeguards are implemented in States pursuant to legal authority from the IAEA Statute and bilateral, regional and international nuclear non-proliferation treaties and agreements; and are set of technical measures that allow the IAEA to independently verify a State's legal commitment not to divert nuclear material from peaceful nuclear activities to nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices. In 1991, the IAEA safeguards system suffered a massive shock when it was discovered that Iraq was running an heretofore undetected parallel undeclared nuclear (weapon acquisition) programme. As a result, the IAEA safeguards system was strengthened based on a combination of expanded information and technical measures through the Additional Protocol (to safeguards agreements). Further challenges to the IAEA safeguards system came during 1992 through 2015, from the DPRK, Iran, Libya, South Korea and Syria. This presentation describes the structure and technical elements of safeguards, including implementation in high-priority cases.