Nuclear Safety, GIS and Remote Sensing

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Nuclear Safety, GIS and Remote Sensing
The European Commission, Joint Research Centre
and other organizations set out a few years ago
to create a GIS program that would allow nuclear
site inspectors to check up on almost any site in
the world via satellite imagery. The satellite
images can be used to crosscheck a sites info,
which has already been geo-referenced, given by a
country. This is for detecting discrepancies and
undeclared activities at a site.

• The GIS program includes
• Thematic layers of a countrys Nuclear Fuel Cycle
  (NFC) main cities, rivers and lakes road and
  rail networks electric distribution network NFC
  facilities RD activities relevant for the NFC
  manufactures and export of equipment of nuclear
  interest (Contini doc.)

• Detailed info about a site databases of nuclear
  material, activities at the site, multimedia
  files depicting the facilitys processes, etc
• Importantly, Around the site, the map must
  describe residential areas, rivers/lakes/sea,
  electrical networks, and road/rail networks as
  requested by INFCIRC/540 (Contini doc.)

By Bill Brown Works Cited Background image
http//bazzinet.info/content/media/wallpapers/misc
/nucleardawn.jpg GIS images and text
www.ec-gis.org/Workshops/6ec-gis/papers/contini-nu
clear.doc