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What Infcirc 153?

What Infcirc 153?

INFCIRC/153(Corrected) – The Structure and Content of Agreements Between the Agency and States Required in Connection with the T. Page 1.

What is the significant quantity as defined by the IAEA for basically any type of plutonium?

The IAEA has defined a “significant quantity” as the amount of a particular material (e.g., plutonium) that a State would need to make a nuclear explosive device. “Timeliness” is related to the estimated time needed to convert diverted material into the components of a nuclear explosive device.

What is Infcirc?

INFCIRCs are documents used for communications between the IAEA and member states. The resulting INFCIRC/869 included directions that a country wishing to subscribe could do so by informing the IAEA of its intention and by requesting that its communication be shared with all IAEA member states.

What is the small quantities protocol?

A protocol to a comprehensive safeguards agreement (CSA) concluded between the IAEA and a State on the basis that the State has less than specified minimal quantities of nuclear material and no nuclear material in a facility.

What is a significant quantity?

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) defines a significant quantity (SQ) as. “the approximate amount of nuclear material for which the possibility of manufacturing. a nuclear explosive device cannot be excluded.

What is nuclear verification?

Generally known as the AP, this is a powerful verification tool. It gives the Agency broader access to information about all parts of a State’s nuclear fuel cycle, including research and development activities, as well as the manufacturing and export of sensitive nuclear-related equipment and material.

What is the purpose of safeguards?

The objective of safeguards, as described in CSAs, is “the timely detection of diversion of significant quantities of nuclear material from peaceful nuclear activities to the manufacture of nuclear weapons or of other nuclear explosive devices or for purposes unknown, and deterrence of such diversion by the risk of …

Who invented atomic energy?

Enrico Fermi, an Italian physicist, led the team of scientists who created the first self- sustaining nuclear chain reaction.

What is democracy?

Democracy, which derives from the Greek word demos, or people, is defined, basi- cally, as government in which the supreme power is vested in the people. In some forms, democracy can be exercised directly by the people; in large societies, it is by the people through their elected agents.

What distinguished democracy from other forms of government?

This is what distinguished democracy from other governments. Other forms of government like monarchy, dictatorship or one-party rule do not require all citizens to take part in politics. In fact most non-democratic governments would like citizens not to take part in politics.

What is democracy according to Diamond?

According to Diamond (2004), democracy is a means for the people to choose their leaders and to hold their leaders accountable for their policies and their conduct in office. He goes on to state that the people decide who will represent them in parliament, and who will head the government, at the national and local levels.

What is the meaning of the Greek word’Demokratia’?

I read somewhere that the word democracy comes from a Greek word ‘Demokratia’. In Greek ‘demos’ means people and ‘kratia’ means rule. So democracy is rule by the people. This is the correct meaning.

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