IAEA Safeguards Criteria

The development of and early experience with a unified set of criteria covering International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards implementation and evaluation activities for the period 1991-1995 is presented. The scope, structure and use of these criteria are described, as are the general principles behind IAEA verification requirements. Experience with these criteria in 1991 and 1992 is reviewed, in particular with respect to the increased use of certain procedures (e.g., zone approach, dual C/S) but slower-than-anticipated implementation of other procedures (e.g., randomization applied to domestic transfer verification).