An American Academy for Training Safeguards Inspectors - An Idea Revisited
Abstract
In 2009, we presented the idea of an American academy for training safeguards inspectors for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), due to the declining percentage of Americans in that international organization. In this paper we assert that there is still a compelling need for this academy. While the American Safeguards Academy would be useful in preparing and pre-training American inspectors for the IAEA, it would also be useful for preparing Americans for domestic safeguards duties in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. DOE National Laboratories, and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). It is envisioned that such an academy would train graduate and post-graduate university students, DOE National Laboratory interns, and nuclear safeguards professionals in the modern equipment, safeguards measures, and approaches currently used by the IAEA. It is also envisioned that the Academy would involve the domestic nuclear industry, which could provide use of commercial nuclear facilities for tours and demonstrations of the safeguards tools and methods in actual nuclear facilities. This would be in support of the U.S. DOE National Nuclear Security Administration’s Next Generation Safeguards Initiative (NGSI). This training would also help American nuclear safeguards and non-proliferation professionals better understand the potential limitations of themore »
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- DOE - NA
- OSTI Identifier:
- 993548
- Report Number(s):
- INL/CON-10-17738
TRN: US1008096
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC07-05ID14517
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Institute for Nuclear Materials Management Annual Meeting 2010,Baltimore, MD,07/11/2010,07/15/2010
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 98 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS, AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION; DOMESTIC SAFEGUARDS; IAEA; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; NUCLEAR MATERIALS MANAGEMENT; PROLIFERATION; SAFEGUARDS; SECURITY; TRAINING; Safeguards; Training
Citation Formats
Durst, Philip Casey, and Bean, Robert. An American Academy for Training Safeguards Inspectors - An Idea Revisited. United States: N. p., 2010.
Web.
Durst, Philip Casey, & Bean, Robert. An American Academy for Training Safeguards Inspectors - An Idea Revisited. United States.
Durst, Philip Casey, and Bean, Robert. 2010.
"An American Academy for Training Safeguards Inspectors - An Idea Revisited". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/993548.
@article{osti_993548,
title = {An American Academy for Training Safeguards Inspectors - An Idea Revisited},
author = {Durst, Philip Casey and Bean, Robert},
abstractNote = {In 2009, we presented the idea of an American academy for training safeguards inspectors for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), due to the declining percentage of Americans in that international organization. In this paper we assert that there is still a compelling need for this academy. While the American Safeguards Academy would be useful in preparing and pre-training American inspectors for the IAEA, it would also be useful for preparing Americans for domestic safeguards duties in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. DOE National Laboratories, and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). It is envisioned that such an academy would train graduate and post-graduate university students, DOE National Laboratory interns, and nuclear safeguards professionals in the modern equipment, safeguards measures, and approaches currently used by the IAEA. It is also envisioned that the Academy would involve the domestic nuclear industry, which could provide use of commercial nuclear facilities for tours and demonstrations of the safeguards tools and methods in actual nuclear facilities. This would be in support of the U.S. DOE National Nuclear Security Administration’s Next Generation Safeguards Initiative (NGSI). This training would also help American nuclear safeguards and non-proliferation professionals better understand the potential limitations of the current tools used by the IAEA and give them a foundation from which to consider even more effective and efficient safeguards measures and approaches.},
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