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2018
Developing a Tool for Acquisition Path Analysis and Strategy (TAPAS)
Developing a Tool for Acquisition Path Analysis and Strategy (TAPAS)
Acquisition Path Analysis (APA) is the key element in developing a State-level approach. Based on the State’s nuclear fuel cycle and related technical capabilities, the APA generates a list of acquisition paths ranked by their attractiveness for the State. Based on this, the Agency establishes the t...
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Personal Name(s): | Listner, Clemens (Corresponding author) |
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Niemeyer, Irmgard / Rutkowski, Joshua / Krieger, Thomas | |
Contributing Institute: |
Nukleare Entsorgung; IEK-6 |
Imprint: |
2018
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Conference: | IAEA Symposium on International Safeguards: Building Future Safeguards Capabilities, Vienna (Austria), 2018-11-05 - 2018-11-08 |
Document Type: |
Contribution to a conference proceedings |
Research Program: |
Joint Programme on the Technical Development and Further Improvement of IAEA Safeguards between the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and the International Atomic Energy Agency Nuclear Waste Management |
Publikationsportal JuSER |
Acquisition Path Analysis (APA) is the key element in developing a State-level approach. Based on the State’s nuclear fuel cycle and related technical capabilities, the APA generates a list of acquisition paths ranked by their attractiveness for the State. Based on this, the Agency establishes the technical objectives and identifies the safeguards measures for a State. A standardized, transparent and reproducible approach for conducting the APA will help ensure consistency and non-discrimination in safeguards implementation at the State level. Therefore, the authors proposed a formal approach, using a three step methodology: network modelling, network analysis and strategic assessment. First, the process starts by considering nuclear fuel cycle and related technical capabilities of the State to obtain the edge weights of the network. Second, the network is analyzed by enumerating all acquisition paths sorted in order of attractiveness for the State. Third, game theory is used to model the decisions made by the IAEA and the State. As a solution, a Nash-equilibrium can be found that provides an indicator on the effectiveness of the implemented safeguards system. While this approach was implemented as a prototype software, the given paper presents a concept as well as a first working draft for an improved software implementation, using the web framework Django. By means of database techniques, it is ensured that multiple users can access and modify data without loss of data integrity. Furthermore, a user concept will be presented which guarantees a fit to purpose identity and rights management. It will be shown that the software is capable of data administration of all entities in the class diagram; modelling acquisition networks by assessing the attractiveness of each process step; and calculation and visualization of all paths of an acquisition network. |