Feasibility Study of a Interlaboratory Exchange Program for Safeguards Professional Development

Technical Report · Mon Oct 16 04:00:00 EDT 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1462389· OSTI ID:1462389

Pepper, Susan ^[1]

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1. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

In FY2017, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Office of International Nuclear Safeguards (NA-241) assigned Brookhaven National Laboratory’s (BNL’s) Nonproliferation and National Security Department to investigate the feasibility of interlaboratory exchanges to promote the sharing of specialized skills and expertise across the lab complex and to provide opportunities for safeguards professionals to access facilities and activities not locally available. Such exchanges would give safeguards professionals who work at laboratories without operating nuclear facilities the opportunity to get hands-on experience with the management of such facilities or handling of nuclear material. Other laboratory professionals could get the opportunity to contribute to policy analysis. As originally envisioned, an interlaboratory exchange program would enable selected safeguards professionals in the national laboratory network to work at another national laboratory for a period of two weeks to six months to offer their expertise and gain experience in programs to which they would not otherwise be exposed.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation (NA-20)
• DOE Contract Number: SC0012704
• OSTI ID: 1462389
• Report Number(s): BNL--114440-2017-FORE
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

98 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS, AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION