nuclear materials

The office will build upon existing locations in Europe and the US and reflects the growing market for Arktis' next generation, plug and play detection systems that detect and identify radioactive and nuclear materials. The company has been regularly funded by the most renowned advanced research and ...

Japan will provide Y300 million (£2.03 million) to fund inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency of North Korea's nuclear facilities if Pyongyang follows through with its vow to scrap its arsenal of atomic weapons. The cost of initial inspections of the North's nuclear capabilities is put at between ...

The Nuclear Regulation Authority has given up on its proposal to gather and store redundant nuclear material from throughout Japan at one common facility run by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, sources close to the matter said Saturday. The watchdog had been discussing the idea with the state-backed ...

The UK currently undertakes nuclear safeguards with the European Commission through Euratom and will need to deliver this capability by means of its own UK State System of Accountancy for the Control of Nuclear Material (SSAC) including development of a replacement SIMRS. Without the system ...

To tackle the dangerous task of managing used nuclear material one company is looking to virtual reality (VR) technology to make the job safer and easier. Createc Company Logo. Cumbria-based company Createc is leading a £1.5 million software development project which will see robots used to enter ...

The project also involves OC Robotics, Red Engineering Design, Structure Vision, React Engineering and UKEA, and is part of a competition organised by the NDA. Fifteen projects, since reduced to five, are competing for an £8.5 million prize to develop a means of decommissioning nuclear material that ...

So important is the protection of nuclear facilities that the UN Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, the only international convention on the physical protection of nuclear material, was amended in 2016 to resolve a fundamental weakness by including protection of nuclear facilities.

“Evaluations regarding the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran continue.” At a news conference later in the day, Mr Amano gave more details of the Agency's activities in Iran. “Our inspection work has doubled since 2013. IAEA inspectors now spend 3,000 calendar days per year on ...

Amano said IAEA inspectors had been given access to all the sites and locations which they needed to visit to verify the non-diversion of nuclear material declared by Iran under its Safeguards Agreement. Evaluations regarding the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran continue, ...