The European Commission Cooperative Support Programme: Activities and Cooperation

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) bases its technical and scientific programme on voluntary contributions from Member States, constituting the Member States Support Programme (MSSP). The European Commission Cooperative Support Programme (EC-SP) started in 1981 to support IAEA activities in the field of nuclear safeguards. Since its beginning, the EC-SP has been operated by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in close collaboration and coordination with the European Commission’s Directorate General for Energy – Directorate Nuclear Safeguards implementing the EURATOM treaty. EC-SP tasks provide technology and expertise in technical areas related to the effective implementation of safeguards verification measures including the detection of undeclared materials, activities, and facilities. The EC-SP fosters cooperation with Support Programmes from European Union Member States, as well as with non-EU states with which the European Commission has specific research and development agreements, e.g., the United States Department of Energy, ABACC. Information on the research and development activities under these frameworks is shared with the IAEA and complements core EC-SP work. The paper describes the EC-SP, its modus operandi, collaborations, and main activities, namely, (a) the specific R work as part of tasks with well-defined milestones and deadlines, (b) training activities; (c) the technical support in establishing Safeguards guidelines and approaches and (d) the technical consultancy support to IAEA meetings and expert groups.JRC.E.8-Nuclear securit

Analysis of Soil-Structure Interaction Effects of NPP Structures on Nonhomogeneous Subsoil

This paper describes the soil-structure interaction (SSI) effects to the Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) structure with reactor VVER-1200. The simplified 1D and numerical 3D FE models of the nonhomogeneous subsoil are investigated. The methodology of the calculation of the frequency dependent complex functions of the soil stiffness and damping is presented

Developing a distributed electronic health-record store for India

The DIGHT project is addressing the problem of building a scalable and highly available information store for the Electronic Health Records (EHRs) of the over one billion citizens of India

Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen Activity Report 2002.

Abstract not availableJRC.G-Institute for the Protection and the Security of the Citizen (Ispra

The European Commission Cooperative Support Programme: Activities and Achievements

The IAEA bases its technical and scientific Programme on contributions from the Member State Support Programmes (MSSP). The European Commission Cooperative Support Programme (EC-SP) started in 1981 to support IAEA¿s activities in the field of nuclear safeguards. Since its beginning, the EC-SP has been operated by the European Commission¿s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and its institutes at Ispra-Italy, Geel-Belgium and Karlsruhe-Germany. The EC-SP tasks provide technology and expertise in many technical areas related to the effective implementation of safeguards verification measures including the detection of undeclared materials, activities, and facilities. The paper will detail the main activities of the EC-SP in recent years, namely (a) the specific work as part of tasks with well-defined milestones and deadlines, (b) training activities and (c) the technical consultancy support to the many IAEA meetings and expert groups.JRC.DG.G.8-Nuclear securit

Digitalisation for nuclear waste management: predisposal and disposal

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The Development of Augmented Reality as a Tool in Architectural and Urban Design

The development of Augmented Reality as a tool in Architectural andUrban design.Architectural representations consist of mediating artifacts utilisingtraditional techniques. These techniques have limitations and embodya large degree of abstraction. Consequently there is a needfor interpretation and the representations can, instead of mediating,constitute barriers and obstruct communication.This paper presents research on the use of emerging technologiesfor simulation and visualisation of architectural projects at theOslo School of Architecture and Design.Augmented Reality (AR) is a system for blending virtual modelswith real life settings, thus making it possible to experience proposedarchitectural solutions in full scale at the intended site.The author argues that this technology will have a significantimpact on, and applicability for, the architectural design process andthe mediating of architectural projects