Volume 24
June 2018 Edition
The IAEA ‘s new web-based new State Declaration Portal, a component of MOSAIC will streamlining the submission of safeguards
declarations by States. These form the basis for the IAEA’s nuclear verification work, which provides assurances to the international
community that nuclear material remains in peaceful use. Courtesy of IAEA.
to increase and, with a static budget, improvements strengthened Safeguards information securi-
in productivity and efficiency are key to maintaining ty – which is increasingly important to meet
the quality and credibility of verification efforts.
the growing number and complexity of cyber
Processing such declarations and making the informa-
tion available to IAEA experts used to be very time con-
suming. Now, these can be analyzed immediately upon
receipt.
MOSAIC has also enabled the IAEA to digitize
the hundreds of thousands of documents on
its verification work—records the Agency must
keep on file.
“Before MOSAIC, we used to have to go to the filing room,
but with MOSAIC it’s like a one-stop service,” said Lai San
Chew, an IAEA Safeguards Inspector.
“You just click and you can get the information on the com-
puter. It saves a lot of time.”
Work carried out as part of MOSAIC has also
threats.
IAEA State Declaration Portal
One component of the IAEA’s MOSAIC pro-
gram, upgrading the IT system, in addition
to enhancing laboratories, enhancing analyt-
ics, and advancing surveillance, involves the
replacement of the old safeguards informa-
tion system with a more modern and secure
environment, enabling the IAEA to conduct
safeguards activities in a more efficient and
effective manner, by launching a new web-
based system streamlining the submission
of safeguards declarations by States.
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