STUDY OF VERIFICATION TECHNIQUES FOR NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFEGUARDS AND SECURITY

STUDY OF VERIFICATION TECHNIQUES FOR NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFEGUARDS AND SECURITY
Ign. Djoko Irianto
Center for Reactor Technology and Nuclear Safety – BATAN
Kompleks Puspiptek Serpong, Tangerang Selatan
Email: igndjoko@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT
STUDY OF VERIFICATION TECHNIQUES FOR NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFEGUARDS AND SECURITY. The presence of nuclear materials at any nuclear facilities must be known as safeguards purpose through the knowledge of position, form or type and the amount. The clarification of the position, the type and the amount must be reported to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as the international regulatory body. Then IAEA will verify that report. The verification must be done to know that there is no difference of the amount, and to give assurance to the international community that the nuclear material used only to non military purpose. To carry out the verification, several verification techniques such non-destructive analysis such as gamma spectrometry, neutron counting, surveillance technique, unattended and remote monitoring and environmental sampling are explained in this paper to give the impression how those techniques are implemented.

Keywords: Safeguards Technology, Verification Techniques, Nuclear Material, Non Destructive Analysis
Published : Journal of Nuclear Equipments, Volume 1, Nomor 1, Mei 2007, ISSN:1978-3515