R&D ON NUCLEAR FORENSICS TECHNOLOGY AT JAEA

The national statement made by the Japan Government at 2010 Nuclear Security Summit (Washington D.C., USA) was to develop its nuclear forensics detection and analysis technologies in a three-year period and to share them with the international community to contribute to strengthening the nuclear security regime. The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) is the organization that possesses analytical capabilities with the potential to fulfill this nuclear forensics mission, since JAEA has been developing a wide range of analytical techniques for nuclear material samples from large size ones to trace level ones of environmental sampling. For this reason, JAEA started R&D on nuclear forensics technology from JFY 2011. In this presentation reported is JAEA’s outline of R&D to establish nuclear forensics analytical capabilities including international cooperation. The summary of International Workshop on Nuclear Forensics (5-6 October 2010, Tokai, Japan) is also reported