Summary of Safeguards in the U.K.

Operators in the United Kingdom seldom undertake any Research and Development whose sole purpose is the improvement of safeguards*, despite which the Nuclear Materials Accounting Control Team of the UKAEA compile an annual report listing effort which is deemed to be relevant to safeguards. Since safeguards benefits are not specified in the aims of the programs it follows that the attribution," relevant to safeguards" is open to interpretation and also that the items selected have to be identified in the programs of work of a number of organizations who have undertaken the programs for commercial or managerial reasons.