Implementation of the Expanded Declaration and the Complementary Access under the Additional Protocol in KAERI

The Additional Protocol (AP) to the Safeguards Agreement between the Korean Government (ROK) and the IAEA was signed on 21 June 1999 and entered into force on 19 February 2004. In June Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) provided the initial expanded declaration on KAERI site. Korean government then provided all of the information on Korea to the IAEA in August. Following the ROK's submission of the initial declaration and explanation concerning the certain experiments, the IAEA promptly dispatched a verification mission team to the ROK to verify laboratory scale experiments of uranium enrichment with the atomic vapor laser isotope separation (AVLIS) method and other related information such as conversion activities. These verification mission at the KAERI site have been carried out four times since the end of August in 2004. This report describes the implementation of the expanded declaration and the complementary access at KAERI, and discusses the practical issues and lessons learned from operators' perspective