Procedures and practices in nuclear material accounting and reporting in the GDR

The typical features of the GDR's nuclear material safeguards system are pointed out by analysing the nuclear material data reporting to the IAEA since 1972. Extent and consequences of the application of modern electronic data registration and processing methods at State and MBA levels are considered and an outlook is given for planned developments and extensions of the data processing system with a view to making the data exchange between the main users of nuclear material and the State control authority more effective and the work of the State control authority itself more efficient