The International Training Course on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Facilities and Materials

Education and training are the foundation for a state’s developmentand maintenance of an indigenous capability to conduct a nuclearenergy and research program, from both the regulatory perspectiveand the licensee or operator perspective. The International TrainingCourse on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Facilities and Materials(ITC) is the original international training program in thearea of physical protection of nuclear material, which the UnitedStates has been conducting since 1978. This course focuses on asystems engineering performance-based approach to requirementsdefinition, design, and evaluation for physical protection systems.During the first twenty-one presentations of ITC, more than 600national experts from more than sixty International Atomic EnergyAgency member states were trained. This paper describes the content,structure, and process of ITC.