Webinar on Nuclear Forensics Experts’ Support to Radiological Crime Scene Management: The Prosecutor's Perspective

Date and Time

Monday, 18 October 2021

16:00 Vienna (Austria) time

Duration: 3 hours

Working language: Russian

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Background

Nuclear and other radioactive material is prevalent throughout the nuclear fuel cycle, and is also widely used in other industries and in research, medical and biological studies and other technical and scientific applications. It is a State’s responsibility to implement a national nuclear security regime to protect these materials, including measures designed to prevent, detect and respond to nuclear security events. The IAEA provides, upon request, assistance to Member States to establish, enhance and maintain their national nuclear security regimes.

Nuclear forensics and radiological crime scene management play a crucial role in nuclear security regimes, not only as part of the response to illicit acts, but also as a preventive measure that can help to discourage further such acts. The interaction and interconnection between nuclear forensics and radiological crime scene management is a hot topic that needs to be covered thoroughly and from various perspectives.

The webinar will focus on the prosecutor's perspective of this interaction.

This is the first IAEA webinar on nuclear forensics and radiological crime scene management conducted in Russian.

Objectives

The objectives of the webinar are:

• To give participants a better understanding of the interaction between nuclear forensics and radiological crime scene management, in particular of the role and importance of nuclear forensics support during the examination of a radiological crime scene;
• To provide participants with a prosecutor's perspective of this interaction, highlighting its challenges and opportunities;
• To give participants a chance to discuss the different steps involved in managing the scene of a nuclear security event, determine radiological crime scene priorities, as well as outline good practices on how to properly collect and process evidence for use by the nuclear forensic laboratory and in a subsequent investigation.
• To look into, through discussion, the role of a nuclear forensics analytical back-up - both at the crime scene and while performing further examination.