Year
2010
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Abstract
We must be transparent in our core activity which is an industrial field directly linked to electricity production. This activity is strategic for all countries involved in nuclear electricity programs. Thus, the transportation of nuclear material from one country to the next is not only a typical element of the industry but a strategic element as well. One of our main preoccupations in the transportation of nuclear material is to ensure the highest level of physical protection because nuclear material is, in one hand, firsly, a material which presents a risk of proliferation, and in the other hand this material is a dangerous good. To assure this protection, it is necessary to restrict information in order to reduce risks. In so doing, the industry is sometimes accused of being too opaque. It is the same regulation to protect nuclear material into nuclear sites than during the transportation phase. Two types of regulations are applicable within the perimeter of nuclear sites - those being safety and physical protection. During the transportation phase, three types of regulations must be enforced: safety, physical protection and, in addition, international regulations for the transport of dangerous goods which mix safety and security requirements according to the vulnerability in public domain and gives international rules to apply. These rules include protection of the information in nuclear material transport organisation.