International Conference on Physical Protection
More than 200 experts from 48 countries and organizations attended
the IAEA's International COnference on the Physical Protection
of Nuclear Materials in November 1997. The meeting focused on
national and global experience in regulation, implementation,
and operation of physical protetion systems and standards. Reviews
of national experience included papers and presentations covering
a wide range of topics. They included the implementation of protection
programmes at specific types of nuclear facilities, organizational,
regulatory, and legal aspects of national infrastructures; methods
and approaches for assessing and improving procedures and systems;
bilateral cooperative programmes fro physical protection; physical
protection during the transport of nuclear materials; research,
development, and use of instrumentation and computerized security
systems; and programmes that have been put into place for combatting
and preenting illicit trafficing in nuclear materials.
Proceedings of the Conference are being published by the IAEA.
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