Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom and Rwanda’s Ministry of Infrastructure on 28 February signed two memoranda of cooperation on education and personnel training and on developing public acceptance of nuclear energy. This followed an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy signed on 5 December. Rosatom and Rwanda agreed to implement […]
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Feb. 1 that the United States would withdraw from its nuclear weapons treaty with Russia. Since the Obama administration, the U.S. has accused Russia of being in violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which prohibits the U.S. and Russia from developing a certain types of ballistic and cruise […]
There is growing interest in nuclear power across several African countries. The USA could be more engaged to create more equitable and sustainable deployment of clean nuclear power on the African continent, write Jessica Lovering and Kenton de Kirby of the Breakthrough Institute. Of the 30 countries identified by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) […]
Over the next two weeks, Member States of Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) will convene in The Hague for the Twenty-Third Session of the Conference of the States Parties (CSP-23), which opened today, followed by the Fourth Review Conference (RC-4), which begins on Wednesday, 21 November. The aim of these sessions is […]
Production can resume at NTP Radioisotopes’ Pelindaba facilities after receiving the go-ahead from South Africa’s National Nuclear Regulator (NNR). Preliminary production runs at the NTP processing plant, which the company said had been “effectively” shut down since November 2017 following a series of “safety-related issues”, will be followed by full production. The shutdown was ordered […]
ANNOUNCEMENT The African Centre for Science and International Security (AFRICSIS) and the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS), will offer an intensive course on “Nuclear Nonproliferation and Security for Women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)” for researchers, practitioners, and other specialists from the African […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — 29 October 2018 — National Authority representatives along with security and legal experts from the Sahel and West Africa identified possible ways of strengthening their capacities for addressing chemical terrorism during the workshop on the role of implementing legislation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in addressing threats posed by non-State […]
AFRICSIS and ISTC have signed a Contract Agreement for AFRICSIS to manage and implement the Project’s Work Packet 3 (WP3). The WP3 is an in-depth, detailed analysis of the states of affairs on nuclear safety and security in general and nuclear material transportation safety in particular in the four target countries and in the broader […]
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 […]
