A FUEL CYCLE APPROACH TO SAFEGUARDS IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION

Year
1985
Author(s)
M. J. Canty - Kernforschungsanlage Julich
Arnold Rezniczek - UBA Unternehmensberatung
G. Stein - Kcrnforschungsanlage Juclich GmbH
R. Gerstler - Federal Ministry of Research and Technology
E. Muench - Kerforschungslage Juelich GmbH
Abstract
Many of the problems associated with the implementation and evaluation of IAEA safeguards are of an artificial, self-imposed nature resulting from overly rigid technical evaluation criteria. Fuel cycle considerations currently under discussion may offer the means of developing a more balanced, pragmatic approach to safeguards and avoid the contradiction of an eminently successful non-proliferation regime and a safeguarding authority which continually claims to be falling short of its goals.