ESTABLISHMENY OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE ANALYSIS PROGRAM FOR NUCLEAR SAFEGUARDS, CTBT VERIFICATION AND RESEARCH APPLICATIONS IN JAPAN: A SYSTEMS ENGINEERING APPROACH

Pursuant to a specific bilateral cooperation agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI), work has been underway for the past two years to establish an environmental sample analysis program and associated analytical measurement capability in Japan for national and international safeguards, CTBT verification and nuclear research and development for environmental sciences. Key to the establishment of this new program is the design, constriction, and future operation of a class 100 clean laboratory to be constructed at JAERI's Tokai-Mura site. To accomplish the activities necessary to implement this new program and establish the clean laboratory, a systems engineering model and approach has been developed. All elements in the overall systems engineering approach described above to establish an operable nuclear environmental laboratory will be described to establish this new program in Japan. In addition, an overview of the JAERI clean laboratory will be provided