JAPANS COOPERATION WITH THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS IN ESTABLISHING ITS SSAC

According to the Technical Support Plan for Nuclear Material Control and Physical Protection in the Republic of Belarus, which was coordinated among and approved by potential donor countries and the IAEA, we designed the major part of SSAC (State’s System of Accounting for and Control of nuclear material) and selected systems and equipment. We have developed and constructed the systems and carried out necessary training, We will complete the planned activities in September 1996. The outline of the SSAC under construction is: (1) a measurement system in a research center, which includes the U-PU Inspector System and a portable multichannel analyzer with NaI detector, (2) an information system, which includes two sets of personal computers (PCs) for each of the research center and of the national authority, and software for data handling which is an improved version of FARMS (Facility Record and Report Model System developed by JAERI using Visual dBASE, (3) a communication system, which connects the four PCs through Ethernet and telephone lines, and (4) a physical protection system, which is a joint effort among Japan, Sweden, the United States and Belarus.