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Key Tools for
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Advances in Environmental Sampling Strengthen Safeguards |
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David L. Donohue (1)
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the international community, the summer of 1991 was a turning point of
scientific discovery, one that set the stage for stronger nuclear safeguards.
IAEA and United Nations and inspectors were combing the rubble of Iraq’s nuclear
installations looking for evidence of a secret programme to produce atomic
bombs, something expressly forbidden by Iraq’s ratification of the Treaty on the
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). What the inspectors found that
summer were minute traces of radioactive elements such as uranium and plutonium
which helped them to piece together details of the programme, its scale,
timetable and likely purpose.
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1) David Donohue
is Head of the IAEA Clean Laboratory for Safeguards, part
of the Agency’s Safeguards Analytical Laboratory (SAL) in Seibersdorf, Austria.
This article is updated from a paper published in the journal, Analytical
Chemistry, Vol. 74, No. 1 (January 2002) prepared with contributions from
colleagues at SAL, the Clean Laboratory, and Department of Safeguards.
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