- Nuclear weapons, human security, and international law
Policy and Regulations for nuclear security
- International framework for nuclear security, including legally binding and non-binding instruments
- Regulation development and implementation
- Support for embarking countries
- Approaches to regulation (prescriptive, performance-based, technology neutral)
- Challenges in meeting changing demands due to emerging technologies and emerging threats
- Tools and approaches for regulators for evaluation of policy and regulations
Technology and infrastructure for nuclear security prevention, detection and response
- Current and existing technologies including issues related to aging facilities and lifecycle management, research reactors, decommissioned facilities and facilities being decommissioned, and other facilities using and/or manufacturing nuclear or other radioactive material
- Emerging nuclear technologies including small modular reactors, micro reactors, other novel reactor designs, spent fuel storage and disposal, and evaluation of such technologies in relation to nuclear security
- Emerging non-nuclear technologies including artificial intelligence, uncrewed systems, etc. (both as potential tools for nuclear security and as potential risks) and evaluation of such technologies as related to nuclear security
- Approaches to nuclear security including graded approach, defence in depth, and risk-informed
- Existing and emerging threats, prevention, protection and assessment including design basis threat, insider threat and evaluation and assessment of protection systems
- Supply chain security
- Nuclear forensics
- Materials security, including transportation of nuclear and other radioactive material, material accounting and control, national accounting and control measures, and preventing illicit trafficking
- Building and maintenance of nuclear security detection architecture
- Coordinated response to nuclear security events
Capacity Building for nuclear security
- Workforce development
- Skills for nuclear security
- Cross and inter-disciplinary concepts
- Workforce management
- Attracting the next generation
- Retention and knowledge management
- Creating and maintaining workforce diversity
Cross-cutting nuclear security topics
- Information exchange and regional and international cooperation
- Information and computer security considerations for nuclear security
- Interfaces between nuclear security and safety
- Interfaces between nuclear security and State systems of accounting and control
- IAEA assistance programmes and advisory services
- Communication on nuclear security
- Nuclear security culture
- Contribution of industry to nuclear security
