IAEA guidelines for state systems of accounting and control

This session emphasizes guidelines for the organization and functions of the SSAC with respect to obligations arising from safeguards agreements concluded by a state with the IAEA, including the elements of the system and the performance required from it. The division among the two lectures is as follows: (a) history and development of IAEA safeguards; establishment of authority and responsibility (requirements); (B) establishment of requirements of nuclear material accounting and control; material balance areas and key measurement points; measurement systems; nuclear material flow; physical inventory taking; records and reports. The purpose of this training session is to enable participants to: (1) understand the basic objectives of safeguards and the legal basis for their application; (2) identify the three main features of a system of accounting for and control of nuclear material; (3) know who has the responsibility of establishing, implementing and maintaining an SSAC within a state of group of states party to a safeguards agreement with the IAEA; (4) describe the major requirements of nuclear materials accounting and control, (5) identify the organizational and functional elements of SSAC at the state level; (6) describe important elements and functions of nuclear material accounting and control