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Introduction
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At the same time, an international consensus -- reflected at meetings of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and other national and international forums -- has emerged that
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Therefore, the committee responsible for this report, with the concurrence of DOE and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which served as the contract manager, decided to concentrate its efforts on the radiological terrorism threat posed by inadequately protected IRSs in Russia and on feasible approaches to upgrading the security of IRSs in Russia. The new statement of task is as follows: An ad hoc committee will be established by the National Academies to develop recommendations for priorities for U.S.-Russian cooperation to be considered by the Department of Energy (DOE)
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in Russia, which could be used in RDDs. The committee will con sider U.S.-Russian cooperation in the broader context of global efforts to improve the security of IRSs, and particularly efforts under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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Prepared for the NRC Committee on Opportunities for U.S.-Russian Cooperation in Combating Radiological Terrorism.
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Finally, radiological terrorism is regularly discussed by government representatives at intergovernmental meetings of the IAEA and by specialists during agency-sponsored workshops and consultations on a variety of specialized topics. As this report underscores, the IAEA is not the only international organization interested in the topic of radiological terrorism, but it has been the focal point of most of the international attention devoted to IRSs in recent years and therefore was an excellent source of information in preparing this report.
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For example, IBRAE of the Russian Academy of Sciences has published a number of articles on radiological terrorism concerns in Russia and other countries, including the security of IRSs. The Institute of Chemical Technology of Rosatom, in cooperation with several other Russian institutes, has prepared a series of reports on distribution of radioactive material and radioactive contamination in Russia, under a broadly based program entitled The Radiation Legacy of the Soiet Union.
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Presentation at the first meeting of the NRC Committee on Opportunities for U.S.-Russian Collaboration in Combating Radiological Terrorism, Washington, D.C., May 7. For Task Force/RDD Threat Reduction Legislation, see: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003.
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national security interests. • Chapter 3 describes and assesses past and current U.S.-Russian cooperative activities associated with managing and controlling radioactive materials and IRSs, and how these efforts affect the threat of radiological terrorism.
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