Trend of nuclear security; Toward the conference of the parties to the amendment to the convention on the physical protection of nuclear material 2022

Fukui, Yasuhito 

This article explains briefly the history of amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material. Further this article examines the Nuclear Security resolution adopted in the IAEA General Conference held in 2021 in order to overview the current situation in the field of Nuclear Security. Then this article examines the Nuclear Security plan 2022-2025 so as to grasp what the IAEA would like to realize in the mid-term in this field. As the cyber-attack happens these days so often and the IAEA recently published the revised version of Technical Guidance on Computer Security at Nuclear Facilities (IAEA Nuclear Security Series No. 17-T) etc., this article also explains briefly what is written. Based on these analyses, the author proposes the three important issues to tackle in the field of nuclear security.