Year
1994
Abstract
The objective of the \"Partnership Approach\" between the IAEA and CEC Euratom Inspectorates is to promote interoperation between the agencies to share information and reduce or eliminate redundant activities. This allows each agency to reduce its \"per-site\" cost of operations and simultaneously increase its capacity to perform without increasing the cost to perform. During 1993, The Aquila Remote Reader (ARR) and \"E\"-Tag devices were implemented by IAEA to enable this \"Partnership Approach\". These devices, reported on at INMM 1993, are now being installed in over 50 Twin Minolta and MFVS surveillance systems. This paper discusses new technologies developed recently at Aquila that will both reduce the cost of the current \"Partnership\" instruments and open the door to expansion of the \"Partnership\" program to include new partners as well as new partnership activities. In particular, we discuss: • An overview of additional \"Partnership Approach\" opportunities • Strategies for using new sealing technologies in jointly inspected multicamera surveillance systems. • New options made possible by digital imaging and digital communications. • The potential of \"mail-in\" systems, which involve the facility operator in the transmission of safeguards information. • The \"Partnership Approach\" technologies and their application to containment and surveillance in Light Water Reactors without mixed oxide fuels and Storage Facilities.