November 4-6, 2005 – Woodlands Park, UK
This two-day workshop is designed to enhance cooperation and assistance between NATO and Partner countries in support of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) efforts to secure radioactive sources against the threat of terrorism.
The workshop will assess likely scenarios in which radioactive sources could be used as terrorist weapons and identify means to enhance operational responses to high consequence radiological terrorism such as a radiological dispersion device or ‘dirty bomb’. In addition, the workshop will assess indicators and warnings of clandestine radiological acquisition and development and will also focus on technical cooperation in the development of new technologies for detection, monitoring, interdiction and enhanced security of radioactive sources. Finally, the workshop will consider shortfalls in existing legislative and regulatory controls over sealed sources and will examine ways to improve the implementation of key aspects of regulatory regimes such as: licensing and inspection; tracking sources; registries of source users; international and national source inventories; identification and recovery of orphan sources; transport security.
Supported by the NATO Security Through Science program, the workshop is part of the ongoing program of activities of the Illicit Trafficking Working Group and the Radiological Threat Reduction Working Group established in 2002 at the International Approaches to Nuclear and Radiological Security Conference in London with support from the US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Atomic Energy (MinAtom) and the Kurchatov Institute.
The working group convened in September 2004 under NATO auspices at Norton Manor, UK for the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Illicit Trafficking in Weapons of Mass Destruction (http://www.nato.int/science/news/2004/n040910a.htm).
At the conclusion of the Norton Manor workshop, the working group recommended holding a follow-on NATO workshop focused on enhancing NATO and Partner Country cooperation in support of the IAEA’s International Conference on the Safety and Security of Radioactive Sources, Bordeaux, France, June 27- July 1, 2005.
The event is by invitation and limited to some 30 participants with representatives from approximately 20 countries.
Radioactive Sources Workshop Co-Directors:
John W. Wood, Chairman, the Trilateral Group, London, UK
Dr. Evgeny Velikhov, President, the Russian Research Center,
The Kurchatov Institute, Moscow
For further information contact:
Julia Fairrie, The Trilateral Group
Granville House, 132Sloane Street, London SW1X 9AX, United Kingdom
Tel: (+44) 207 591 4800; Fax: (+44) 207 591 4801
E-mail: Mail@trilat.com
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