1996 initiatives under the CNEN/DOE safeguards cooperation agreement
- Brazilian Comissao Nacional de Energia Nuclear, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
- Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
- Pacific Northwest National Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Security Program Office, TN (United States)
In September 1995, the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the Brazilian Comissao Nacional de Energia Nuclear (CNEN) signed an agreement on methods and technologies for safeguards applications. This agreement provides for cooperation in the areas of nuclear material control, accountancy, verification, physical protection, and advanced containment and surveillance technologies for international safeguards applications. CNEN is responsible for managing nuclear facilities and institutions in Brazil and is responsible for coordinating international safeguards as applied by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials (ABACC). Following the ratification of the Quadripartite Agreement among Argentina, Brazil, ABACC, and IAEA in March 1994, all nuclear materials in all nuclear activities in Brazil became subject to comprehensive safeguards. Collaboration between CNEN and DOE in 1996 is focusing on: (1) the use of a GRAND FORK detector at the Angra Nuclear Power Station, (2) a remote monitoring field trial, (3) workshops on environmental monitoring and analysis as a safeguards application, (4) developing and studying methods and techniques for applying safeguards at enrichment plants, and (5) support of CNEN`s safeguards analytical laboratory. This paper will describe each of the aforementioned safeguards cooperation activities.
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-84OR21400
- OSTI ID:
- 596866
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960767--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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