Nuclear Security News & Member Updates Roundup, March 2023
…out of their hands as well. The Department of Energy will lead a nationwide effort to remove certain highly radioactive materials from hospitals and other civilian sites, Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, the…
Geological Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel
…9 countries (Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Sweden, and Switzerland), of which 3 URLs (in Finland, France, and Germany) are site-specific, meaning they are developed at…
Vietnam’s Evolving Strategy for Surviving COVID-19
…to undergo a medical evaluation. Currently, the country has over 21,000 individuals in “concentrated quarantine sites,” while some 30,000 others remain under self-isolation orders. Conditions inside the quarantine sites are…
Nuclear Security News and Member Updates Roundup, January 2024
…to become operational. The IAEA says that work has now been carried out at the plant on back-up electrical transformers which, Grossi said: ‘Means that if the main power supply…
Understanding Kim Jong Un’s Economic Policymaking: Tourism as an Industry
…North Korea Under Kim Jong Un: An Analysis of North Korean Discourse,” North Korean Review 16, no. 1 (Spring 2020): 55-81, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26912705. That’s a topic for another day. Rather, this is a study of…
Protecting Those Who Protect
…of diesel fuel and other rations for UN sites, and protecting those convoys can require peacekeepers to act as armed escorts and security. This is not a small issue. From…
Nuclear Security News and Member Updates Roundup, April 2021
…measures at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture…The authority gave the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant’s nuclear security a “red” rating, meaning its management had deteriorated to levels that could allow…
The Limits of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan under Taliban Rule
…restrictive decrees1Note: United Nations, UNAMA Human Rights Service, Human Rights in Afghanistan: 15 August 2021 to 15 June 2022, (July 2022), available from https://unama.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/unama_human_rights_in_afghanistan_report_-_june_2022_english.pdf, pages 22-23, 31. Those violating the…