US-Japan Cooperation on Safeguards

Year
2009
Author(s)
John McClelland-Kerr - U.S. Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration
David H. Beddingfield - Los Alamos National Laboratory
H.O. Menlove - Los Alamos National Laboratory
M. Hori - Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute
Y. Kawakubo - Japan Atomic Energy Agency
Abstract
There is a long history of collaborative safeguards development between the United States and Japan. Japan has built, and continues to expand, the largest civil nuclear fuel cycle under full-scope IAEA safeguards in world. This development has posed unique challenges to the international safeguards system. Safeguards developments made through the US-Japan cooperation to address these unique challenges have significantly impacted the technologies deployed for international safeguards applications around the world.