Safeguards research collaboration in GNEP program

Suzuki, Mitsutoshi; Hori, Masato; Mochiji, Toshiro; Senzaki, Masao

In a new nuclear policy of the United States of America called as Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), advanced safeguards technologies and high proliferation resistance technologies for the nuclear fuel cycle are important issues. Since this feature of GNEP is the almost same as fast breeder nuclear cycle development program in FaCT project by JAEA, Japanese government is positively thinking to collaborate with the GNEP program based on Japanese experience and data in safeguards technologies development. In this presentation, we would like to show the history of exchange opinions between US and Japan, and explain the interest of DOE/NNSA in safeguards area. Moreover, the internal discussion and prospected research collaboration issues are introduced.