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The Radiation Source Safety and Security Unit is primarily focused on helping to address the problems of orphan and vulnerable sources. Orphan sources are radioactive sources which present a significant hazard, but are either no longer under regulatory control, or never have been. Vulnerable sources are radioactive sources which are under control, but the level of control is not adequate to provide long-term assurance of safety and security. The Unit is responsible for performing some tasks under the IAEA's Revised Action Plan for the Safety and Security of Radiation Sources as well as co-ordinating the activities in the Revised Action Plan. Each year, typically a few people are seriously injured or die as a result of accidental exposure to an orphan source. Since September 11, 2001 the Unit has also been working on how to best help deal with the threat of radiological terrorism, by implementing some of the activities within the IAEA's Nuclear Security Plan of Action and the IAEA/USDOE/Minatom Tripartite Initiative.
IAEA-Related Meetings
Actual events through February 2004.
- July 2003 - San Diego, CA, USA - Health Physics Society Annual Meeting: Categorization of Sources & Code of Conduct.
- July 2003 - Vienna, Austria - Technical and Legal Experts Meeting on the Code of Conduct for the Safety and Security of Radioactive Sources.
- May 2003 - Anaheim, CA, USA - Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors, Annual Meeting: The IAEA's Role in Radiation Protection.
- March 2003 - Arusha, Tanzania - Pilot National Strategies mission for regaining control over radioactive sources.
- March 2003 - Vienna, Austria - International Conference on the Security of Radioactive Sources.
- March 2003 - Vienna, Austria - Technical Meeting to consider revisions to the Code of Conduct on the Safety and Security of Radioactive Sources.
- January 2003 - San Antonio, TX, USA - Health Physics Society Annual Meeting: Security of Radioactive Sources; Cadre training.
- January 2003 - Yerevan, Armenia - Pilot National Strategies mission for regaining control over orphan sources.
- November 2002 - Manila, Philippines - Pilot National Strategies mission for regaining control over orphan sources, Illicit trafficking seminar and ASEAN meeting.
- October 2002 - Vienna, Austria - Consultants' Meeting to develop a revised categorization of radiation sources.
- September 2002 - Salzburg, Austria - International Conference on Physical Protection: Strengthening Global Practices for Protecting Nuclear Material.
- July 2002 - Vienna, Austria - Technical Meeting on National Strategies for Detecting and Loacting Orphan Sources.
- June 2002 - Tampa, FL, USA - Health Physics Society Annual Meeting: New Hazardous Source Warning Sign.
- June 2002 - Albuquerque, NM, USA - Los Alamos National Laboratory: Recovery of RTGs in Georgia.
- June 2002 - Hollywood, FL, USA - American Nuclear Society Annual Meeting: Strategic Planning for Research Reactors.
- May 2002 - Madison, WI, USA - Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors, Annual Meeting: International Views on Radiological Terrorism.
- April 2002 - Vienna, Austria - Technical Meeting to develop a universal system for labelling hazardous radiation sources.
- March 2002 - Brussels, Belgium - NATO-Russia Advanced Scientific Workshop: Social and Psychological Consequences of Chemical, Biological and Radiological Terrorism.
- February 2002 - Vienna, Austrai - Consultants' Meeting to develop a universal system of labelling hazardous radiation sources.
- February 2002 - Vienna, Austria - Consultants' Meeting to provide advice on confidentiality issues in relation to activities on the security of radiation sources and of nuclear installations.
- November 2001 - Tunis, Tunisia - Review of the actual and planned security arrangements for an irradiation facility.
- October 2001 - Paris, France - Meeting to confer about the threat of radiological terrorism.
- August 2001 - Bangkok, Thailand - Regional Workshop on the Safety of Radiation Sources and Security of Radioactive Materials.
- June 2001 - Vienna, Austria - Technical Committee Meeting to Revise the Action Plan for the Safety of Radiation Sources and the Security of Radioactive Materials.
- May 2001 - Vienna, Austria - Consultants' Meeting to draft a revision to the Action Plan on the Safety of Radiation Sources and Security of Radioactive Materials.
- December 2000 - Mumbai, India - Research reactor aging seminar and project co-ordination meeting.
- November 2000 - Vienna, Austria - First CRP meeting on small angle neutron scattering.
- October 2000 - Raleigh, USA - Annual meeting of the national organization for Test, Research and Training Reactors (TRTR).
- September 2000 - Vienna, Austria - Advisory group meeting on the management of research reactors.
- August 2000 - Bariloche, Argentina - Second Co-ordinated research project (CRP) meeting on WIMS Library Update.
- March 2000 - Vienna, Austria - Technical committee meeting on the enhancement of university activities at research reactors.
- February 2000 - Vienna, Austria - Consultants' meeting on document preparation for current status of neutron capture therapy TECDOC.
- January 2000 - Tripoli, Libya - African regional project formulation meeting
- December 1999 - Vienna, Austria - Technical committee meeting on nuclear research centres in the 21st century.
- November 1999 - Cairo, Egypt - African regional training workshop on research reactor management
- October 1999 - Bariloche, Argentina - Consultants' meeting on a new CRP on small angle neutron scattering, and IGORR7 meeting.
- October 1999 - Vienna, Austria - Advisory group meeting on applications of research reactors.
- September 1999 - Gaithersburg, USA - Annual TRTR meeting.
- September 1999 - Lisbon, Portugal - International symposium on research reactor utilization, safety and management.
- August 1999 - Vienna, Austria - Program performance assessment system meeting for research reactors and low energy accelerators.
- June 1999 - Vienna, Austria - Technical committee meeting on the current status of neutron capture therapy.
- April 1999 - Vienna, Austria - Final CRP meeting on the analysis of research reactor transients.
- April 1999 - Algiers, Algeria - African regional project meeting and first African research reactor conference.
- March 1999 - Mito City, Japan - Sixth Asian symposium on research reactors.
- March 1999 - Taejon, Korea - Asian and Pacific regional project finalization meeting.
- February 1999 - Vienna, Austria - First CRP meeting on WIMS library update project.
- October 1998 - Pitesti, Romania - Technical committee meeting on data acquisition for research reactors.
CRP = Co-ordinated research project.
TECDOC = IAEA technical document.
TRTR = The USA's national organization of test, research and training reactors.
WIMS = A computer code for reactor analysis (Winfrith Improved Multigroup Scheme).
