International Cooperation for Enhancing Nuclear Safety, Security, Safeguards and Non-proliferation–60 Years of IAEA and EURATOM

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxvi

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2. Nuclear Safety and Security—1

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Introduction

      • Carlo Schaerf

      Pages 3-5Open Access

   3. IAEA’s Nuclear Safety and Nuclear Security Worldwide

      • Gustavo Caruso

      Pages 7-13Open Access

   4. Nuclear Security Summits and Legacy

      • Alexandre Bilodeau

      Pages 15-21Open Access

   5. The GICNT Contribution to Nuclear Security

      • Jari Luoto

      Pages 23-28Open Access

3. Nuclear Safety and Security—2

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. Introduction

      • Umberto Vattani

      Pages 31-33Open Access

   3. Euratom Nuclear Safety Framework

      • Michael Kuske

      Pages 35-43Open Access

   4. Updating from Lessons Learnt from Fukushima

      • Tatsujiro Suzuki

      Pages 45-50Open Access

4. Nuclear Safeguards

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51

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   2. Introduction

      • Maria Betti

      Pages 53-55Open Access

   3. Sixty Years of Nuclear Verification

      • Frédéric Claude

      Pages 57-62Open Access

   4. Euratom Safeguards System

      • Stefano Ciccarello, Stephan Lechner

      Pages 63-68Open Access

   5. Technical Synergies Between Safeguards and Security

      • Elina Martikka, Tapani Hack, Marko Hämäläinen, Tapani Honkamaa, Paula Karhu, Mikael Moring et al.

      Pages 69-77Open Access

5. Nuclear Safeguards Challenges

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. Introduction

      • Said Abousahl

      Pages 81-83Open Access

   3. The “What” and “Who” of Nuclear Safeguards

      • Anne Harrington

      Pages 85-88Open Access

   4. Nuclear Safeguards Challenges from a JRC Perspective

      • Willem Janssens

      Pages 89-96Open Access

6. Topics of Nuclear Non-proliferation: Present and Future Challenges—1

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This open access book examines key aspects of international cooperation to enhance nuclear safety, security, safeguards, and non-proliferation, thereby assisting in development and maintenance of the verification regime and fostering progress toward a nuclear weapon-free world. The book opens by addressing important political, institutional, and legal dimensions. Current challenges are discussed and attempts made to identify possible solutions and future improvements. Subsequent sections consider scientific developments that have the potential to increase the effectiveness of implementation of international regimes, particularly in critical areas, technology foresight, and the ongoing evaluation of current capabilities. The closing sections examine scientific and technical challenges and discuss the role of international cooperation and actions of the scientific community in leading the world toward peace and security. The book – which celebrates 60 years of IAEA Atoms for Peace and Development and the EURATOM Treaty – comprises contributions presented at the XX Edoardo Amaldi Conference, where eminent scientists, diplomats, and policymakers were able to compare national perspectives and update international collaborations.

• EU Member State on the Evolution of Nuclear Safety
• EU Perspective on Nuclear Safety
• IAEA Nuclear Safeguards
• Nuclear Energy in the Amaldi Conference
• Nuclear Non-proliferation
• Nuclear Safeguards
• Nuclear Security Update
• Role of Scientific Community for Nuclear Safety
• Scientists for the Global Security
• Nuclear Safety
• Nuclear Disarmament
• Open Access

• Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

  Luciano Maiani

• Directorate General Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

  Said Abousahl

• Department of Mathematics and Physics, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy

  Wolfango Plastino

Luciano Maiani holds the Enrico Fermi Chair at Sapienza University of Rome and is a former Director General of CERN. Professor Maiani predicted the existence and the properties of charged particles (GIM mechanism) crucial to the formulation of a gauge theory of electroweak interactions. Currently, his work is focused on the formation of quark–gluon plasma in heavy ion collisions. Professor Maiani chaired the XX Edoardo Amaldi Conference.

Said Abousahl is EURATOM Coordinator, European Commission – Joint Research Centre (JRC) and is responsible for the work program implemented by the JRC institutes (monitoring and evaluation) in the fields of nuclear safety, security, safeguards, and non-proliferation. Dr. Abousahl was Co-Chair of the XX Edoardo Amaldi Conference.

Wolfango Plastino is Scientific Coordinator in the framework of the virtual Data Exploitation Centre (vDEC) of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) for testing and evaluation of algorithms and datasets in support of the verification mission on radionuclide event screening categorization for the International Monitoring System (IMS) and International Noble Gas Experiment (INGE). Professor Plastino was Scientific Secretary of the XX Edoardo Amaldi Conference.