Human resource development at the integrated support center for nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear security

Naoi, Yosuke ; Hamada, Kazuko; Noro, Naoko

The Integrated Support Center for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Nuclear Security (ISCN) provides training courses for Asian countries and the domestic concerned parties. ISCN has developed its original curriculum for these courses jointly with the Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) in the U.S. The base of the curriculum was the training course on the physical protection training course developed by SNL. In cooperation with SNL, ISCN developed the Physical Protection Exercise Field and the Virtual Reality system as tools for its original training programs. ISCN has already received over 1,200 participants from 33 countries (including Japan) to its human resources development activities (as of June 2013). In addition, ISCN expands its activities to organize workshops in order to promote understanding of the IAEA's revised recommendation on the physical protection of nuclear material, and to foster the nuclear security culture. Here, these activities of ISCN will be introduced.