Abstract Topics and Sub-topics

Each abstract must indicate the most appropriate major topical area:

• Policy, Regulations and Standards
  
• Methodologies and Best Practices
  
• Modeling and Analysis
  
• Technology and Development
  
• Systems and Applications
  
• Testing, Assessments and Lessons Learned
  
• Education, Training and Communication/ Information Systems
  
• Counter Terrorism Measures and Responses
  
• Public and Homeland Security
  
• Nuclear Infrastructure Security
  
• Concepts and Approaches

Each abstract must indicate the most appropriate sub-topic. INMM may provide additional topical guidance, if appropriate.

International Safeguards

• International Safeguards Policies, Challenges and Country Issues
• State-level Safeguards, the Additional Protocol (including U.S.), Integrated Safeguards and SSACs
• Safeguards development and experience for Gas Centrifuge Enrichment Plants, Plutonium Recycle Processes, Geological Repositories, and future facilities (Safeguards by Design)
• Safeguards Information, Data Management and Security
• Safeguards Implementation Experience and Advances
• International Verification in Nuclear Weapon States (including FMCT verification)
• Design information verification
• Containment, Surveillance, Process Monitoring, Unattended and Remote Monitoring
• Imagery for Safeguards, Environmental Sampling and Monitoring
• Safeguards Technology and Instrumentation
• International and Regional Cooperation, including Member State Support of IAEA Safeguards and 3S:
  Safeguards, Safety and Security
• Education, Training, Workforce Development

Materials Control and Accountability

• Measurements Gamma
• Measurements Neutron
• Measurements Other NDA
• Destructive Analyses & Nuclear Forensics
• Nuclear Materials Management
• Accounting Systems
• Policy & Best Practices
• NNSA Special Session
• Material Control & Storage Systems
• Educational Initiatives

Nonproliferation and Arms Control

• Nonproliferation Technologies
  
• Nonproliferation Policies and Regulations
  
• Nonproliferation Enforcement
  
• Regional and International Nonproliferation Approaches
  
• Nonproliferation Infrastructure Development
  
• Nuclear Fuel Cycle
  
• Proliferation Resistance
  
• Assured Fuel Supply
  
• Regimes and Treaties
  
• Weapons Dismantlement
  
• Transparency and Verifi cation Technologies
  
• Nuclear Material Disposition
  Illicit Traffi cking
• Export Controls
• Detection Technologies: Nuclear, Radiological, Chemical, Biological
• Science and Technology Engagement in Support of International Security
• Nuclear Security Culture

Packaging and Transportation

• Quality Assurance
• Packaging & Transportation Programs
  
• Package, Canister and Cask Designs
  
• Shipping, Storage and Disposal Containers (multipurpose)
  
• Packaging & Transportation Security Systems
  
• Radioactive Material Transportation
  
• Shipping, Storage and Disposal Containers
  
• Radioactive Material Transportation Route Planning
  
• Radioactive Material Transportation Risk Assessment
  
• Transportation and Storage Packaging Service Life
  
• Package Tracking, Fleet Management and Monitoring
  
• Packaging Materials and Components Research
  
• Emergency Response for Transportation Events
  
• Use of Transportation Packages for Storage
  
• Effects of Radiation and Temperature on Packaging Components
  
• Real Time Monitoring of Packages in Transport
  
• Automatic Tamper and Event Detection Technologies

Physical Protection

• Protection Assessment Methodologies and Simulation Modeling
  
• Facility Critical Infrastructure Security
  
• Personnel and Contraband Search Technologies
  
• Emergency Management and Security Integration
  
• Intrusion Detection and Assessment
  
• Threat Identification and Definition
  
• Facility Design and Security Integration
  
• Nuclear and Radiological Detection Technologies
  
• Performance Assurance and Testing Methodologies
  
• Tactical Response Planning and Management
  
• Homeland Security Application to Nuclear Asset Protection
  
• Convergence of Physical Security and Information Technology
  
• Resource Development -- Physical Protection Specialists

Waste Management

• Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage
  
• Spent Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
  
• Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste Packaging and Disposal
  
• Low-Level Radioactive Waste Packaging and Disposal
  
• Processing and Disposal of Mixed Wastes
  
• National Nuclear Material Disposal Facilities
  
• Repository Safety, Safeguards and Security

Updated: January 29, 2010