Year
2000
Abstract
This paper reports on the status of a new project called “IP3”. Euratom initiated this project with the objective of producing a computer application for safeguards inspection management. The International Atomic Energy Agency has been involved in the project from the functional requirements definition phase, in order to include those features which will enable Euratom and the IAEA to jointly use this code in the framework of the New Partnership Approach (Ref. 1, 2,3). The program is a suit of tools which will span all major inspection tasks, including inspection activity planning, inventory listings, accountancy verifications, containment seal management, sample size calculation, and measurement evaluations. The main significance of this project is its generic design; the application will be suitable for most any type of installation. This is achieved by ensuring the possibility of versatile reconfiguration, to cope with the particularities of individual installations. Installation-specific data such as the planned inspection activities, the stratification schemes, the measurement precision, etc. are all placed into easy-to-produce, reusable specific modules. The identical user interface and the high degree of automated inspection activity planning will also contribute to the flexibility of inspectors who need to inspect a variety of different installations frequently.