Peaceful nuclear development and the three "s" ('safety', 'security'and 'safeguards')
We should agree on a comprehensive solution for a commensurate international control of both nuclear and radioactive material designed to ensure that peaceful nuclear development will not cause harm to the human race. The concept international security system is clouded by the confusing semantics of...
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Centro de Gestión de la Información y Desarrollo de la Energía (CUBAENERGIA)
2010-07-01
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| author | Abel Julio González Améndola Martín Abel González Villa |
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| description | We should agree on a comprehensive solution for a commensurate international control of both nuclear and radioactive material designed to ensure that peaceful nuclear development will not cause harm to the human race. The concept international security system is clouded by the confusing semantics of its parts: the English concepts ‘safeguards’, ‘safety’ and ‘security’, on one hand, and nuclear and radioactive materials on the other hand. The objectives should be: to ensure, through appropriate safeguards, that nuclear materials are not diverted to non-peaceful purposes; to prevent, through appropriate security, the unauthorized possession or use, illegal or malicious, of nuclear and radioactive materials; and, to ensure, through appropriate safety, that the use of nuclear and radioactive material will not cause harm to people and the environment. Security must be understood as an integral part of safeguards and safety, because materials that are secure are not necessarily safeguarded or safe, and materials may not be safeguarded or safe unless they are secure. Security is a necessary but not sufficient condition for safeguards and safety; security is an important but subsidiary condition of safeguards and safety; security is necessary but not sufficient to ensure nuclear control via safeguards and safety. In conclusion an International Treaty for the Control (‘safeguards’, ‘safety’ and ‘security’) of the Peaceful Development of Nuclear Energy and its Byproducts is proposed. It should clearly regulate the obligations and (non-compliance) penalties of the Parties, and, based on existing agreements, should be clear, logical, rational, fundamental, methodical, systematic, universal, equitable, impartial, fair and non discriminatory. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cbdb90919524400ca7ed6700a2e2d02e2022-12-22T01:23:51ZengCentro de Gestión de la Información y Desarrollo de la Energía (CUBAENERGIA)Nucleus0864-084X2075-56352010-07-01048538Peaceful nuclear development and the three "s" ('safety', 'security'and 'safeguards')Abel Julio González Améndola0Martín Abel González Villa1Autoridad Regulatoria NuclearUniversidad del SalvadorWe should agree on a comprehensive solution for a commensurate international control of both nuclear and radioactive material designed to ensure that peaceful nuclear development will not cause harm to the human race. The concept international security system is clouded by the confusing semantics of its parts: the English concepts ‘safeguards’, ‘safety’ and ‘security’, on one hand, and nuclear and radioactive materials on the other hand. The objectives should be: to ensure, through appropriate safeguards, that nuclear materials are not diverted to non-peaceful purposes; to prevent, through appropriate security, the unauthorized possession or use, illegal or malicious, of nuclear and radioactive materials; and, to ensure, through appropriate safety, that the use of nuclear and radioactive material will not cause harm to people and the environment. Security must be understood as an integral part of safeguards and safety, because materials that are secure are not necessarily safeguarded or safe, and materials may not be safeguarded or safe unless they are secure. Security is a necessary but not sufficient condition for safeguards and safety; security is an important but subsidiary condition of safeguards and safety; security is necessary but not sufficient to ensure nuclear control via safeguards and safety. In conclusion an International Treaty for the Control (‘safeguards’, ‘safety’ and ‘security’) of the Peaceful Development of Nuclear Energy and its Byproducts is proposed. It should clearly regulate the obligations and (non-compliance) penalties of the Parties, and, based on existing agreements, should be clear, logical, rational, fundamental, methodical, systematic, universal, equitable, impartial, fair and non discriminatory.http://nucleus.cubaenergia.cu/index.php/nucleus/article/view/540 |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Peaceful nuclear development and the three "s" ('safety', 'security'and 'safeguards') |
| title_short | Peaceful nuclear development and the three "s" ('safety', 'security'and 'safeguards') |
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