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TranSAS team from IAEA visited Japan from Dec.5 to 16, 2005 to appraise government's safety administration of radioactive materials transportation.
On Dec.8 the team visited our plant which was asked by NISA 1 year ago to represent Japan's fresh fuel transportation enterprise.
The TranSAS team consisted of 2 IAEA staff members and 9 experts from member states.
We gave them detailed explanation on radioactive materials transportation before plant tour.
MNF continue to obey orders and laws to keep safety transportation record.
On Dec.8 the team visited our plant which was asked by NISA 1 year ago to represent Japan's fresh fuel transportation enterprise.
The TranSAS team consisted of 2 IAEA staff members and 9 experts from member states.
We gave them detailed explanation on radioactive materials transportation before plant tour.
MNF continue to obey orders and laws to keep safety transportation record.
MNF are obliged to take a physical inventory of nuclear material existing in the plant once a year based on a safeguards agreement with IAEA.
At the same time IAEA and the Japanese government, MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology), carry out an inspection jointly to verify the result of physical inventory taking to be referred as PIV (Physical Inventory Verification)
This time PIV for MNF was carried out from the 19th December 2005 for 3days by MEXT under observation of IAEA without their actual verification activities.
This is the first IAEA inspection based on the implementation of "Integrated Safeguards", which aim to improve the efficiency of the safeguards process and is applied for the Japanese nuclear fuel plants from the 1st January 2005.
As expected, PIV was successfully completed one day earlier in comparison with the conventional one.
The new safeguards regime is going to be applied next time for other nuclear fuel fabrication plants after having been introduced and proved in MNF without any problem.
At the same time IAEA and the Japanese government, MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology), carry out an inspection jointly to verify the result of physical inventory taking to be referred as PIV (Physical Inventory Verification)
This time PIV for MNF was carried out from the 19th December 2005 for 3days by MEXT under observation of IAEA without their actual verification activities.
This is the first IAEA inspection based on the implementation of "Integrated Safeguards", which aim to improve the efficiency of the safeguards process and is applied for the Japanese nuclear fuel plants from the 1st January 2005.
As expected, PIV was successfully completed one day earlier in comparison with the conventional one.
The new safeguards regime is going to be applied next time for other nuclear fuel fabrication plants after having been introduced and proved in MNF without any problem.
Sample taking