U.S. Participation in IAEA Meetings

It is now possible for people interested in attending IAEA meetings, conferences and workshops to register on the IAEA’s web site. Click on the meetings link at www.iaea.org and select the meeting you wish to attend.

Participants must still be nominated by their national authority and after registering through the web site registrants receive an e-mail message from the IAEA telling them to do so. For most Safeguards meetings, the U.S. national authority is the Subgroup on Safeguards Technical Support (SSTS). The SSTS asks the International Safeguards Project Office at BNL to advertise meetings and collect participation and presentation forms and abstracts for their review. ISPO usually sends a message to the official laboratory or company point-of-contact notifying them of the meeting and providing a deadline for the submission of forms. The SSTS then reviews the forms and identifies the applicants that are approved to attend the meeting. ISPO then sends the forms of the approved participants to the U.S. Mission Vienna for official transmission to the IAEA. ISPO will prepare a country clearance request for all individuals approved by the SSTS. Anyone not approved by the SSTS will have to request country clearance separately and will likely be declined.

If you have any questions regarding meeting attendance, or would like to ensure you are on the distribution list to receive future IAEA Safeguards meeting notifications, please contact Susan Pepper, pepper@bnl.gov.

Non-USSP Workshops of Interest:

Special Focus Workshop:  Stand-off Detection Techniques for Radiological and Nuclear Sources
October 24 -25, 2008   Dresden, Germany

International Workshop on Gamma Spectrometry
Analysis Codes for U and Pu Isotopics
November 3-7, 2008    Oak Ridge, Tennessee