# Presentation: 919711

## The U.S. Support Program (USSP) to IAEA Safeguards

- Advanced Sensors for Safeguards Workshop
- April 23, 2007

## U.S. SUPPORT PROGRAM

- OBJECTIVE:
- 	To Transfer Technology Available in the
- 	United States to Increase the Effectiveness
-  	and Efficiency of the International Atomic
-  	Energy Agency (IAEA) Department of
- 	Safeguards.

**Notes:**
The U.S. Support Program is basically a mechanism to allow technology transfer from organizations in the United States to the IAEA Department of Safeguards.

## INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY

**Director General**
**M. ElBaradei**

**TECHNICAL COOPERATION**** **

**NUCLEAR  SAFETY and SECURITY**

**NUCLEAR SCIENCES &**
**APPLICATIONS**

**ADMINISTRATION**

**SAFEGUARDS**

**NUCLEAR ENERGY**

## Department of Safeguards

**Division of **
**Operations A**

**Division of Technical**
**Services (SGTS)**

**Division of**
**Operations B**

**Division of Concepts**
** ****and Planning (SGCP)**

**Division of**
**Operations C**

**Division of Safeguards**
**Information**
**Management (SGIM)**

- Deputy Director General
- for Safeguards

**Notes:**
Three Divisions of Operations and three support divisions.  The Divisions of Operations contain the safeguards inspectors.  The divisions’ responsibilities are geographically assigned.  

The Support divisions provide the tools that the inspectors need to perform their job.  For example, measurement instruments, training, hardware and software, and analytical support.

The Dept of Safeguards has about 600 employees – about 200 of them are inspectors.

## U.S. SUPPORT PROGRAM

-    Established in 1977
-    Policy oversight provided by the Subgroup on     Safeguards Technical Support (SSTS)
-    One of 18 Member State Support Programs

**Notes:**
ISPO and the SSTS work together closely to implement the USSP.  The SSTS has overall responsibility for the program and ISPO is responsible for the day-to-day technical and administrative management of the program.

## International Safeguards Project Office (ISPO)

-   Established at BNL in 1977
-   Technically and administratively manages the      Support Program to IAEA Safeguards
-   Eight staff members at BNL
-   One staff member in Vienna

## International Safeguards Project Office

- Works closely with:
-    Subgroup on Safeguards Technical Support (SSTS)
-    IAEA Dept of Safeguards
-    U.S. National Laboratories
-    U.S. Private Sector (Contractors)
-    Other Member State Support Program Representatives

## U.S. Support Program to IAEA Safeguards

**REQUESTS**

**APPROVAL**

**IMPLEMENTATION**

**National Laboratories**

**U.S. Private Sector**

**Cost-Free Experts**
**& Junior Professional Officers**

**IAEA**

**Mission**

**U.S. Interagency**
**(DOE, State, DoD, NRC)**

**ISPO**

**Assistance**

**Notes:**
This cartoon shows the interactions between the various participants in the US Support Program and also the flow of information that occurs when responding to requests from the IAEA.  Requests come from the IAEA through the US Mission in Vienna.  They are received by ISPO, which shares them with the SSTS and potential contractors.  ISPO collects proposals, forms recommendations, and presents the requests to the SSTS for approval (or rejection).  Once requests are approved, they become tasks within our program, and ISPO monitors the tasks through completion.

## International Safeguards Project Office

-   Reviews all IAEA requests for assistance
-   Recommends action to SSTS
-   Monitors active tasks
-   Verifies task completion
-   Contracting with private sector (Preferred Option)
-   Recruits U.S. citizens for IAEA Safeguards positions
-    Conducts Road-mapping Workshops

## Road-mapping Workshops

-   Data Communication Technologies (October 1999)
-   Information Security (October 2000)
-   Design and Testing for High Reliability (October 2001)
-   Standardization and Integration of Unattended and    Remote Monitoring Systems (October 2002)
-   Turning Information into Knowledge (October 2004)
-   Safeguards Tools of the Future (October 2005)
-   Advanced Sensors for Safeguards (April 2007)

## USSP Priorities(updated annually)

-     Quality Management
-    Human Resources and Training
-    Destructive Analysis
-    Containment and Surveillance
-    Safeguards Concepts and Implementation
-    Information Technology, Collection, and Analysis

##  Quality Management Activities

- Support the implementation of a comprehensive QMS that will provide sound safeguards conclusions
-   Cross-functional quality management program
-   Life cycle approach to equipment management
-   Quality assurance and quality control
-    Continual process improvement
-    Product quality improvement
-    ISO 9001 (CFE Provided)

## Human Resources and Training

- Ensure an appropriate mixture of regular staff and extrabudgetary experts who are qualified to meet the IAEA’s technical needs.
-   Strengthened recruitment of US citizens for SGs posts
- Provide appropriate training to improve the technical basis and specific skills needed to perform their job functions.
-    Development of New Courses (Mostly Inspector Related)
-    Curriculum re-engineering
-    Redefinition of the role of SG inspectors

## Destructive Analysis

- Strengthen the IAEA’s ability to use destructive analysis, particularly environmental sample analysis, as a safeguards tool
-    SAL Feasibility Study
-    Information Management System Upgrade
-    Staff to support Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy

## Containment and Surveillance

- Maintain or improve the reliability and cost-effectiveness of C/S systems for IAEA safeguards; expand the number of systems that are UNARM; and develop verification methods that help streamline the on-site inspection processes.
-    Next Generation Surveillance System
-    Seals upgrade projects
-    SW and HW configuration control and standardization

## Safeguards Concepts and Implementation

- Support the development and implementation of safeguards approaches and verification measures that address the IAEA’s challenges of integrated safeguards and unique facilities.
-    Consultants
-    Novel Technologies
-    JMOX

## Information Technology, Collection and Analysis

- Support the IAEA in achieving an integrated and efficient safeguards information infrastructure.
-    Junior Professional Officers for collection and analysis
-    NVision development project
-    IAEA SGs Information System Re-engineering Project
-    Satellite imagery

## USSP Contractors

**USSP Contractors**

- INL

- PNNL

- LLNL

- LANL

- SNL

- Time Solutions Canberra Albuquerque

- ORNL

- BNL

- ANL, NBL

- Sonalysts

- Stat-a-Matrix

- Space Imaging

- Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
- IBM
- AWST

- Wyle

**Notes:**
The USSP relies on contractors from the U.S. private and public sectors to perform the work sponsored.  This map shows the location of the offices of some of our most active contractors.

## International Safeguards Project Office

- What can ISPO do for you?
-   Answer questions related to IAEA requests
-   Facilitate resolution of issues with the IAEA
-   Country clearance cables for foreign travel
-   Hotel reservations in Vienna
-   Help with IAEA job opportunities

## For More Information

- www.bnl.gov/ispo

**Notes:**
The USSP has a web page maintained by ISPO.  The web page is used to distribute information regarding the USSP and about job opportunities available at the IAEA.