Nuclear Material Accountancy

All nuclear material in a state under comprehensive safeguards must be accounted for at all times through a material accountancy and containment and surveillance system. This allows the IAEA to verify the correctness of all accounting information and to ensure a state is compliant with its international obligation.

Terms Included in this Chapter

1. Accidental Gain
2. Cumulative MUF
3. Cumulative SRD
4. IAEA interim inventory verification
5. IAEA inventory verification
6. IAEA physical inventory verification (PIV)
7. Key measurement point (KMP)
8. Material balance area (MBA)
9. Material balance period (MBP)
10. Material unaccounted for (MUF)
11. Measurement system
12. Nuclear Loss
13. Nuclear material accountancy
14. Nuclear material accounting
15. Physical inventory
16. Shipper/receiver difference (SRD)
17. Strategic point