Preliminary assesment of safeguard culture at the nuclear installation

Nuclear safety and security cultures have been established but for the safeguard culture has not been established internationally. International safeguard system consists of the agreement, inspections and evaluations and it never considers safeguard culture of the country or facility. Historically, cultural indicators do not play a role in the IAEA verification activities against safeguards even though since the case of Iraq appears in the early 1990, IAEA considering the safeguard culture through the theory of organizational culture and the development of a safeguard it self. The aim of this paper is to discuss definition and indication of safeguards. The assessment is done by studying various literature which pertinent to culture, safeguards culture and its implementation in Indonesia and Hungary. It is expected that safeguard culture may strengthen and increase safeguards performance effectively that is verification activities based on correctness and completeness information submitted by the member State to the IAEA. Those it can be ensured that all nuclear material under the IAEA is only for peaceful purposes. (author)