The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is dispatching a first batch of equipment to more than 40 countries to enable them to use a nuclear-derived technique to rapidly detect the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. This emergency assistance is part of the IAEA’s response to requests for support from around 90 Member States in controlling an […]
As we approach the 50th anniversary of the entry-into-force of the Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty (NPT) in 2020, it is essential the NPT can evolve to meet contemporary security challenges, including by contributing meaningfully to nuclear disarmament. More broadly, re-establishing international consensus on the security value of disarmament and arms control is vital to safeguard not […]
The Memorandum aims to develop and strengthen cooperation in the fields of national legal framework, national policy, and institutional mechanisms regarding CBRN safety, safeguards, and security. One short-term goal of the Memorandum is for ISTC and AFRICSIS to partner in the implementation of Project MC5.01/B15 Support to the Southern African States in Nuclear Safety and […]
NSSPI Interim Director Dr. Sunil Chirayath participated in the second part of a joint professional development course with the National Nuclear Security Administration’s International Nuclear Safeguards Engagement Program (INSEP), the US Department of State’s Partnership for Nuclear Security (PNS), and the African Center for Science and International Security (AFRICSIS). The objectives of this course were […]
From July 18-22, NSSPI Director Dr. Sunil Chirayath traveled to Knoxville, Tennessee to take part in a nuclear safeguards curriculum development workshop for university professors from Nigeria and Ghana at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The workshop was sponsored by the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration’s International Nuclear Safeguards Engagement Program. […]
The Ghana-based African Center for Science and International Security (AFRICSIS) recently held a two-day event on 4 and 7 October 2013 in the nation’s capital city Accra to commemorate the 1999 UN-declared World Space Week. Hosted in the Nuclear Security Support Center of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission’s (GAEC) Graduate School of Nuclear and Allied […]