Volume 4, Number 3
October 2006

International Safeguards Technical Division News

By Jim Larrimore International Safeguards Technical Divison Chair

At the 2006 INMM Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tenn., in July, the International Safeguards Technical Division (ISD) held a successful divisional meeting, attended by more than 50 people, and made the following plans for upcoming ISD activities.

• In October 2006 ISD will hold a dinner meeting on Wednesday evening during the IAEA safeguards symposium in Vienna, Austria, in collaboration with the INMM Vienna Chapter. Symposium attendees are welcome; signup will take place at the symposium.
• The ISD Cecil Sonnier memorial article, “Transparency and Openness: Role and Limitations in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Verification System,” has been completed for publication in the fall 2006 issue of the Journal of Nuclear Materials Management (JNMM).
• A comprehensive tutorial on international safeguards has been completed and will soon be posted on the INMM Web site.
• Proceedings of the 2005 INMM/ESARDA Santa Fe Workshop on “Changing the Safeguards Culture: Broader Perspectives and Challenges” will be issued soon as a CD.
• In 2007, ISD will hold meetings at the ESARDA Symposium in Aix en Provence in late May and at the INMM Annual Meeting in Tucson in July.
• ISD has begun to work to organize a special summer 2007 issue of JNMM in honor of 50 years of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
• For 2008, planning has started for the sixth joint INMM/ESARDA workshop, to be held in Japan in October.