New modern Nuclear Material

Laboratory

Inspectors collect nuclear material

samples

UInspectors collect

environmental samples

ENHANCED CAPABILITIESOF SAFEGUARDS ANALYTICAL SERVICES

Analysis at the nuclear material

laboratories

Confirm completeness of

State Declarations

2014 2015

55

35

20 15

FASTER RESULTSAnalysis time per sample in days reduced

2014 20152011 20132012samples

MORE ANALYSISMesaurement requests per sample increased

HIGHER SENSITIVITYHIGHER ACCURACYNo. of particles analysed per sample increased (LG-SIMS)

2012 2015

200

20

Analysis at the environmental

sample laboratories

Confirm correctness of

State Declarations

ENSURING INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION CAPACITIES

BETTER SERVICESTraining area for Operators, State and Regulatory Organizations, and Agency staff.

10x sensitive

Detection of uranium increasedby ten times

New trainingarea

New Large-Geometry Secondary Ion Mass

Spectrometer (LG-SIMS)

New Scanning Electron Microscope

New Clean Laboratoryextension

MORE ANALYSISSamples per year increased(LG-SIMS)

Modern glove boxes for

plutonium analysis

analytical requests

PlutoniumUranium

16-2

165

Seibersdorf Laboratories

Seibersdorf Laboratories

2012

2015

60

100