THE DEVELOPMENT OF RECOMMENDED REQUIREMENTS FOR SECURITY IN THE TRANSPORT OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL: A status report

摘要

The International Atomic Energy Agency has, until recently, focused on providing standards for safety, but not security, in the transport of radioactive material. It has issued guidelines on physical security for nuclear material, but is now expanding its efforts to provide guidelines for security of all radioactive material in transport This paper summarizes the issues and recent efforts directed towards the development of the security guidelines.