Visit to the International Uranium Enrichment Center in Angarsk, Russia

Wakabayashi, Shuji; Hori, Masato

"Workshop concerning securing the nuclear material security that established IUEC" of the ROSATOM sponsoring was held in Irkutsk suburbs on August 15-17th, 2008. Russia has advanced the IUEC plan according to President Putin's proposal on nuclear fuel supply guarantee. The purpose of this workshop is to know about IUEC in the world. Participants of the workshop visited the uranium enrichment facilities of AECC in Angarsk, and were able to enter the cascade room where a lot of centrifugal separators were set up. Presentations were made from ROSATOM, AECC, TENEX comparatively in detail about the preparation situation of IUEC. Information including visiting facility prepared by Russia improved the transparency of IUEC. It was possible to see the situation that revision of domestic laws concerning the nuclear material control and the acceptance preparation of IAEA safeguard were advanced to some degree.