The state-level approach: moving beyond integrated safeguards
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
The concept of a State-Level Approach (SLA) for international safeguards planning, implementation, and evaluation was contained in the Conceptual Framework for Integrated Safeguards (IS) agreed in 2002. This paper describes briefly the key elements of the SLA, including State-level factors and high-level safeguards objectives, and considers different cases in which application of the SLA methodology could address safeguards for 'suspect' States, 'good' States, and Nuclear Weapons States hosting fuel cycle centers. The continued use and further development of the SLA to customize safeguards for each State, including for States already under IS, is seen as central to effective and efficient safeguards for an expanding nuclear world.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396
- OSTI ID:
- 960704
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-08-06114; LA-UR-08-6114; TRN: US1002612
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 6th Joint INMM/ESARDA Workshop ; October 6, 2008 ; Tokyo, Japan
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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