Enhancement of Nuclear Security Measures: Egyptian Case

Egypt benefited from the peaceful uses of nuclear energy since the second half of twentieth century and established several nuclear and radiation facilities, activities and practices such as research reactors, fuel fabrication facility, gamma irradiators, and utilization of radioactive sources in different applications. Consequently, Egypt's concern is to enhance and improve the nuclear security systems in the above mentioned facilities, activities and practices as well as enhance the nuclear security regime on the national, regional and international levels. In this paper, several steps taken by Egypt in the field of nuclear security in its various aspects such as the legal and regulatory frameworks, physical protection of nuclear material and facilities, nuclear material accounting and security of radioactive sources will be presented. Egyptian human resources development strategy for the purpose of improving the efficiency, building, upgrading and strengthening the knowledge and skills of the personnel who are working in the nuclear and radiological fields as well as other activities that related to nuclear security will also be discussed. The Egyptian nuclear security strategy is under development taking in its consideration the present nuclear security measures and the future perspective to develop and improve the Egyptian nuclear security infrastructure. (author)