International Nuclear Security Education Network (INSEN): an interdisciplinary forum for
nuclear security development

Nuclear security hasn’t achieved a unanimously recognised status as an education track. Such a gap is partially understandable as a newcomer in the nuclear domain. But also because of the hybrid disciplinary nature of nuclear security. If physical protection pertains to engineering, security involves a multidisciplinary approach. Its growing relevance needed dedicated training and education track as autonomous curricula. This would improve the intertwining of security with safety and safeguards because it provided its own status in the education offered by academic institutions. With a bottom-up approach, INSEN gather experiences from different countries and regions, clustering areas and themes, enforcing their members and promoting nuclear security in the same academic institutions. The risk of a nuclear or radiological terrorist attack is newly recognised as high. But it wasn’t the same for the need for dedicated education for nuclear security staff in the national agencies. Malicious acts against nuclear facilities couldn’t be aimed at performing a terrorist attack but at nuclear smuggling for potential proliferator governments. The nuclear black market showed how a nuclear security breach would raise a safeguard infringement. Nuclear or radiological accidents could invite malicious acts exploiting the safety breach. For instance, the Goiania accident prospected the possibility of criminal actions not involving the main and usual nuclear facilities (such as reactors) because a security infringement triggered it.