U.S. Additional Protocol Outreach Program-Tabletop Exercises to Implement the AP.

Conference · Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2005

OSTI ID:977982

Langner, D C ^[1]; Thomas, K E ^[2]; Smith, M K ^[3]; Hale, L E; Hansen, L H; Miller, M E ^[4]

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1. Diana C.
2. Kenneth E.
3. Morag K.
4. Megan E.

The Office of International Regimes and Agreement (NA-243) is the lead office in the Department of Energy (DOE) to assist DOE and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) sites in the preparation of providing declarations on relevant civilian, nuclear fuel cycle-related research and development activities to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). This is in accordance to the implementation of the ''Protocol Additional to the AGreement between the United STates and the International Atomic Energy Agency for the Applications of Safeguards in the United States. In preparation for entry-into-force, NA-243 conducted two tabletop exercises under the Additional Protocol Outreach Program. The first one, held in May 2004 at Los Alamos National Laboratory, focused on the factors important to protect national security assets and intellectual property. The other, held in August 2004 at the Idaho National Laboratory explored the level of detail or granularity for reporting declarable activities. Both tabletops invited participants from the national laboratories and DOE/NNSA organizations. Discussions were based around the process to identify potential declarable activities relating to the nuclear fuel cycle-related R and D projects from the Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative program. The two tabletop exercises provided recommendations and conclusions that would be helpful to other DOE/NNSA locations for preparing for and reporting relevant and concise information to the IAEA under the Additional Protocol. This paper provides details on the events, discussions, observations, and lessons learned from both the LANL and INL tabletop exercises.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• OSTI ID: 977982
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-05-4285; TRN: US1004169
• Resource Relation: Conference: Institute of Nuclear Materials Management 46th Annual Meeting, July 10-14, 2005, Phoenix, Arizona
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS
45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
FUEL CYCLE
IAEA
IDAHO
IMPLEMENTATION
LANL
NATIONAL SECURITY
NUCLEAR FUELS
NUCLEAR MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
RECOMMENDATIONS
SAFEGUARDS
SECURITY