Year
1995
Abstract
As a part of its efforts to strengthen international safeguards, including enhancing its ability to detect any undeclared nuclear activities, the International Atomic Energy Agency is making use of increased amounts and types of information on States' nuclear and nuclearrelated activities. This information includes information provided by States (e.g., expanded declarations), information collected by the Agency (e.g., environmental monitoring data), and other information available to the Agency (e.g., media information). Part of Programme 93+2, the Agency's effort to increase the effectiveness of international safeguards, involves the development of a comprehensive approach to the acquisition, management, and analysis of this diverse information. The general approach is to compare a State's declared nuclear activities with supplementary information available to the Agency, and to look into any apparent inconsistencies. Because of the size and growth of the information, tools are being developed to facilitate this comparative analysis, including a computerized system that allows an analyst to view a State's entire nuclear program and any evidence of undeclared nuclear activities. This paper describes the concept of the information analysis system and the status of tool development.