Research reactors contribute enormously to our knowledge, prosperity, and well-being.  They train scientists and engineers, advance basic science, test and qualify power reactor fuels, test and create advanced materials, and diagnose and treat disease.

Fresh Thinking on Highly Enriched Uranium Research Reactor Conversions

This report summarises the outcome of a Professional Development Course on Introduction to Nuclear Security and Safeguards held by AFRICSIS and CNES at Charleston Hotel Tesano in Accra on 3-7 August and 7-11 December 2015. The course was held to build intellectual capacity and transfer of knowledge, by providing an introduction to the varied principles of nuclear security and safeguards for academic faculty […]

Summary Outcome Report of PDC on Nuclear Security and Safeguards

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 […]

Chirayath Lectures at Nuclear Security and Safeguards Professional Development Course for Sub-Saharan Africa

The sample of highly-enriched uranium, of a type that could be used in a nuclear bomb, arrived here on a rainy summer day four years ago, in a blue shopping bag carried by a former policeman.

An Unknown Black Marketeer from Russia May Have The Fuel for a Nuclear Bomb

The Host Country Agreement between the Commission of the African Union (AUC) and the Government of the Republic of South Africa regarding terms and conditions on the location of the Secretariat of the African Commission on Nuclear Energy (AFCONE), an implementation agency of the Treaty of Pelindaba on the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (or simply Treaty […]

African Union and South Africa sign AFCONE Secretariat Host Country Agreement

On 15 July 2009, the Treaty of Pelindaba on the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone entered into force for 28 of the 53 African Union Member States and three of the five Nuclear Weapon States under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Five years later, a look back at actions and effort of stakeholders in […]

Full Report – Five Years after Entry-Into-Force of the Treaty of Pelindaba on the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone

The IAEA Board of Governors today approved an agreement with Kazakhstan to establish and operate in Kazakhstan the IAEA Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) Bank, which will host a reserve of LEU as an assurance of supply mechanism for Member States in case they cannot obtain LEU on the global commercial market, through State-to-State arrangements, or […]

IAEA Moves Ahead on Establishing Low Enriched Uranium Bank in Kazakhstan

28 Apr 2015 – Academic symposium in the margins of the 2015 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference: nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and energy: Fresh ideas for the future. The symposium was been hosted by the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the UN – together with UNODA, Harvard and CNS.

Summary on Five Years after Entry-Into-Force of the Treaty of Pelindaba on the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone: Progress, Challenges, and Next Steps

Bannerman Resources has officially opened a heap leach demonstration plant at the Etango uranium project in Namibia. Construction work began on the plant in October 2014 and it is expected to deliver its first test results by the end of June. The plant will demonstrate the design and projected performance in the definitive feasibility study […]

Namibia commissions demonstration uranium plant