The operational and regulatory singularities of a multilateral facility designed to provide enriched uranium to a consortium of members may engender a new sub-category of safeguard criteria for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). This paper introduces the contingency of monitoring such a facility as a uranium storage center with cylinders containing low-enriched uranium (LEU) as the principal, and perhaps only, material open to verification. Accountancy and verification techniques will be proffered together with disparate means for maintaining continuity of knowledge (CoK) on verified stock.
Revised: August 24, 2009 |
Published: March 31, 2008
Citation
Curtis M.M. 2008.Safeguarding a NWS International Enrichment Center as an Enriched Uranium Store. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Facility Operations-Safeguards Interface, March 30-April 4, 2008, Portland, Oregon, Paper No. 6. La Grange Park, Illinois:American Nuclear Society.PNNL-SA-59814.