A Canadian Perspective in the Development of IAEA Equipment

In order to perform their verification duties, International AtomicEnergy Agency (IAEA) inspectors require robust, lightweight,user-friendly, and proven instrumentation. The Canadian SafeguardsSupport Program (CSSP) recognizes the need for thesecharacteristics along with the requirement for immediate resultswhile in the field. When the CSSP researches technologies fordevelopment, it attempts to ensure the science will meet theseand other beneficial traits and ensure it resolves an IAEA operationalissue. Three successful technologies pursued by the CSSPhave been in ultra-violet light analysis, data acquisition, and laserinduced breakdown spectroscopy sciences with the developmentof the Digital Cerenkov Viewing Device (DCVD), the NextGeneration Autonomous Data Acquisition Module2 (ADAM2)Module (NGAM), and the Hand-Held LIBS System (HHLS). Indesigning these devices, the CSSP attempts to include resourcesthat exceed the requirements of a basic model. In the situationfor NGAM, the device has the ability to expand beyond the presentreplacement need. The other two instruments have differenttraits which exceed the operational requirement. This paper reportson these characteristics for these three instruments that gobeyond the basic functionality.