IAEA and NFI sign Practical Arrangement
On Thursday May 24 Mr Khammar Mrabit, director of the Office of Nuclear Security of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and Kees Möhring, director External Relations of the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) signed a practical arrangement for collaboration in order to develop forensic science within the IAEA and a forensic education and training curriculum.
Forensic investigations
The IAEA, and specifically the office of Nuclear Security, urges the need for the country member states to start building the capacity and develop a code of conduct for forensic investigations in case of a nuclear security event, and to create forensic awareness amongst responders and policy makers. Both the IAEA and NFI emphasize the power of forensic science in investigating the cause of the event, determining the origin of nuclear materials out of regulatory control and illicit trafficking of radiological and nuclear materials.
Visit
On May 24, the delegation of the IAEA visited the port of Rotterdam to see the detection system installed at the container terminals for screening all imported containers for radioactive materials. The NFI provided presentations on cyber forensics, mobile phone forensics, explosives and dirty bombs and chemical profiling.