Annual Report
1998-99 |
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Scope of the Annual Report
Letter to the Minister
Twenty-Five Years of Safeguarding
Australia’s Nuclear Interests
ASNO Outcomes and Outputs
Stakeholders
Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation
Office 1998–99
Functions
Safeguards Role
CWC Role
CTBT Role
The Year in Review
Outlook: The Year Ahead
Resources Overview: Corporate
Management
Organisation of ASNO
Uranium Producers Charge
Program Activities
- Output A - NPT and CPPNM Implementation
- Output B - Bilateral Nuclear
Safeguards
- Output C - International Safeguards
Development
- Output D - CWC Implementation
- Output E - CTBT Implementation
- Output F - Strengthening Non-Proliferation
Regimes
- Output G - Advice to Government
- Output H - Public Information
Current Topics
Plutonium Recycling: The Use of
‘MOX’ Fuel
Safeguards Reform - A Decade On
The Proposed Fissile Material Cut-off
Treaty
A World First in Australia: The IAEA carries
out Verification Activities at Ranger Mine
The Nuclear Industry - Some Current
Issues
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
The International Monitoring
System
Developments Towards a BWC Verification
Protocol
Background
Brief Outline of the Nuclear Fuel
Cycle
IAEA Safeguards - An Overview
IAEA Safeguards Statement for 1998
Australian Uranium Exports
Reporting Requirements
Freedom of Information
Categories of Documents Held by
ASNO
Annexes
Annex A. Nuclear Material within
Australia at 30 June 1999
Annex B. Associated Items within Australia
at 30 June 1999
Annex C. Australian Obligated Nuclear
Material Overseas at 31 December 1998
Annex D. Australian Nuclear Accounting
Reports to the IAEA
Annex E. IAEA Statements of Conclusions
of Inspections in Australia
Annex F. IAEA Safeguards Statistics
Annex G. Australian Safeguards Assistance
Program
Annex H. Development of Australian
IMS Stations at 30 June 1999
Annex I. ASNO Publications and
Presentations
Glossary of Abbreviations, Acronyms
and Definitions
List of Figures
Figure 1. Australian Safeguards
and Non-Proliferation Office - Operating Environment
Figure 2. ASNO Organisational
Chart
Figure 3. The
CTBT International Monitoring System (IMS)
Figure 4. IMS
Facilities in Australia
Figure 5. Civil Nuclear
Fuel Cycle - Outline
List of Tables
Table 1. Details of the
ASNO Budget and Expenditure for the Reporting Period 1998–99
Table 2. Categories of Staff
at 30 June 1999
Table 3. Status of Safeguards
Permits and Authorities in Australia
Table 4. Material Balance
Areas in Australia
Table 5. Permits for CWC
Scheduled Chemical Facilities held at 30 June 1999
Table 6. Comparison of
Materials in Civil and Military Nuclear Fuel Cycles
Table 7. World Nuclear
Electricity Generation at 31 December 1998
Table 8. Countries to which
Australian Uranium was supplied in 1998
Table 9. Australia’s
Bilateral Safeguards Agreements and their Date of Entry into
Force
Table 10. Checklist of
Reporting Requirements
General
enquiries relating to ASNO functions, activities or responsibilities
should be directed to the Director General, Australian Safeguards
and Non-Proliferation Office.
The R.G. Casey Building
John McEwen Crescent
Barton ACT 0221
Telephone: +61 2 6261 1920
Facsimile: +61 2 6261 1908
http://www.asno.dfat.gov.au
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Commonwealth of Australia 1999
ISSN 1442-7699
ISBN 0 642 41433 5
Cover: The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban
Treaty (CTBT) monitoring station at Warramunga in the Northern
Territory is a critical element of the CTBT’s International
Monitoring System. The photo features the central processing
facility, a satellite dish and newly installed 27-metre telemetry
mast.
(Photograph courtesy of the Australian National University). |
