Third Technical Meeting on Radiation Detection Instruments for Nuclear Security: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities

Introduction

The Third Technical Meeting on Radiation Detection Instruments for Nuclear Security: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities will provide an opportunity for experts from Member States, such as front-line users, regulatory authorities, expert support members, and researchers to identify best practices, technology advancements, needs, and opportunities regarding technologies of radiation detection instruments. The technologies discussed will include both passive detection and active interrogation systems. Through presentations, breakout sessions, and discussions, Member State experts will be able to (1) identify existing solutions and potential opportunities to address detection challenges; (2) identify opportunities for collaboration with other Member States; and (3) develop sustainable solutions to challenges and build expert capacity within their own State.

Objectives

The purpose of the meeting is to bring together experts in, and users of, radiation detection instruments and active interrogation systems with the manufacturers of such equipment in order to identify:

• Functional and technical capabilities needed and desired to achieve more effective use of instruments deployed for the detection of nuclear and other radioactive material out of regulatory control;
• Specifications and testing requirements to ensure instrument capabilities meet needs;
• Requirements for networking of detection instruments and secure communications;
• Tools available or needed to transform detection instrument data into information; and
• Challenges and opportunities presented by emerging threats and technologies.

Topics

The meeting will cover the following topics:

• National and international experiences with the detection of nuclear and other radioactive
  material out of regulatory control or during the response to nuclear security events;
• Current status of radiation detection instruments;
• Challenges and opportunities presented by emerging threats and technologies;
• Active interrogation systems;
• Tools for data analysis and display;
• Technical and functional specifications for radiation detection equipment;   
• Network and communication systems for radiation detection instruments; and
• Research and development (R&D) of radiation detection systems.

Papers and presentations

The IAEA encourages participants to give presentations on the work of their respective institutions that falls under the topics listed in above Topics Section. Participants who wish to give presentations are requested to submit an abstract of their work. Abstracts must be submitted not later than 9 June 2023: https://conferences.iaea.org/event/342/

Participation and Registration

All persons wishing to participate in the event have to be designated by an IAEA Member State or should be members of organizations that have been invited to attend.

In order to be designated by an IAEA Member State, participants are requested to send the Participation Form (Form A) to their competent national authority (e.g. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Permanent Mission to the IAEA or National Atomic Energy Authority) for onward transmission to the IAEA by 9 June 2023. Participants who are members of an organization invited to attend are requested to send the Participation Form (Form A) through their organization to the IAEA by the above deadline.

Selected participants will be informed in due course on the procedures to be followed with regard to administrative and financial matters.

Participants are hereby informed that the personal data they submit will be processed in line with the Agency’s Personal Data and Privacy Policy and is collected solely for the purpose(s) of reviewing and assessing the application and to complete logistical arrangements where required.