Finnish Support Programme to the IAEA Safeguards : Annual Report 2020
Editori
Honkamaa, Tapani
Säteilyturvakeskus
22.01.2021
Tiivistelmä
SUMMARY
The Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) coordinates and implements the Finnish Support Programme to the IAEA safeguards (FINSP). FINSP is financed by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (MFA). MFA and STUK have made an agreement for implementation of FINSP for the term of three years 2019 – 2021. For 2020 MFA reserved funding of 149 000€. Actual expenditures of the Programme in 2020 was 85 669,49 €.
The results of the FINSP are presented in this report. Main goals of the FINSP are training of IAEA inspectors and development of IAEA safeguards methods and concepts. FINSP had an annual review meeting with the IAEA on 18th October as a videoconference.
The Some goals of the programme were difficult to achieve because of travel restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Altogether three training events in Finland were cancelled. Two NDA training courses were postponed to the year 2021. FINSP hopes to fulfil the emerged gap of IAEA inspectors training needs in the coming years. A workshop for so called newcomer states was also postponed. To compensate this, FINSP was able to arrange ad-hoc instruction sessions to IAEA trainees and participate to the development of the IAEA guide for newcomers.
At the end of the year 2020 FINSP has 14 active tasks and one stand-by task. Two new task proposals were accepted in 2020 and four are pending. Three tasks were completed during 2020.
The Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) coordinates and implements the Finnish Support Programme to the IAEA safeguards (FINSP). FINSP is financed by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (MFA). MFA and STUK have made an agreement for implementation of FINSP for the term of three years 2019 – 2021. For 2020 MFA reserved funding of 149 000€. Actual expenditures of the Programme in 2020 was 85 669,49 €.
The results of the FINSP are presented in this report. Main goals of the FINSP are training of IAEA inspectors and development of IAEA safeguards methods and concepts. FINSP had an annual review meeting with the IAEA on 18th October as a videoconference.
The Some goals of the programme were difficult to achieve because of travel restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Altogether three training events in Finland were cancelled. Two NDA training courses were postponed to the year 2021. FINSP hopes to fulfil the emerged gap of IAEA inspectors training needs in the coming years. A workshop for so called newcomer states was also postponed. To compensate this, FINSP was able to arrange ad-hoc instruction sessions to IAEA trainees and participate to the development of the IAEA guide for newcomers.
At the end of the year 2020 FINSP has 14 active tasks and one stand-by task. Two new task proposals were accepted in 2020 and four are pending. Three tasks were completed during 2020.