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]]>Read the 2019 NuDiVe exercise documentation report for a more detailed description of the general NuDiVe exercise-logic, including details, sources, in-game documents, and exhaustive information on all technical and organizational aspects.
The NuDiVe 2022 exercise was planned and organized by
For providing and operating specific verification technology, special appreciation goes to
The NuDiVe 2022 evaluation report was prepared by Leesa Duckworth, Ichiro Akiyama, Jens Wistam and Nico van Xanten. The NuDiVe 2022 exercise and this report have been financed by the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs of the French Republic.
Watch a video to learn more about NuDiVe 2022:
Copyright: Forschungszentrum Jülich / Sascha Kreklau
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]]>Continuing to emphasize the shift from “paper to practice,” the IPNDV has combined analytic work and exercises to advance the goals of developing, testing, evaluating, and refining concepts and approaches that can help build a tool kit for future nuclear disarmament verification. Phase III continues to reinforce the judgment from the first two phases that multilateral nuclear disarmament verification should be possible while protecting sensitive information.
Over four days from November 29 to December 2, 2021, the Partners held an Interim Review Meeting to take stock of the work done since the launch of Phase III in January 2020. They reviewed this work with an eye toward refining their Programme of Work and setting work streams and priorities for the remainder of Phase III. This report highlights the accomplishments of the past two years and the direction of the Partnership going forward.
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]]>The overarching objectives for IPNDV during Phase II were developing effective verification options, including measurement techniques, and demonstrating the work of IPNDV through technology demonstrations.
Regarding these objectives, Belgium proposed, organized, and hosted an international technology exercise at the site of the Belgian Nuclear Research Center (SCK CEN) in Mol, Belgium. This exercise was conducted to test and compare different measurement techniques, and respectively for each technique, evaluate the potential to verify nuclear material within the framework of future nuclear disarmament. The exercise took place in September 2019 with about 30 participants from several countries using different measurement techniques.
Measuring the presence and/or absence of nuclear material with nuclear weapon-related characteristics is likely to form part of future nuclear disarmament efforts that encompass nuclear warheads as treaty accountable items. Together with technologies for chain of custody and, possibly, measurements related to high explosives, they form the potentially available technology tools for verification of nuclear disarmament.
The Belgian exercise, focusing on the measurement technology aspect, also complemented a second nuclear disarmament verification exercise that took place in fall 2019, called “NuDiVe,” because the latter exercise focused on the procedures related to nuclear disarmament verification.
This report, produced by the IPNDV Technology Track working group, begins by detailing the measurement campaign in general and its objectives and possible types of measurements as well as the characteristics and significance of the chosen materials. The results obtained with different technologies are reported in subsequent sections: Gamma-ray measurements detailing high- and medium-resolution detectors are followed by reporting on neutron measurements detailing neutron counters and neutron spectroscopic detectors. Imaging devices are then addressed. Within these sections, each team provided the description of their measurement campaign and their obtained results. Implications for nuclear disarmament verification follows before the conclusions and outlook.
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]]>To support these conclusions, Working Group 4 developed a five-part deliverable, found below, that includes: (1) an introduction to verification of nuclear weapons declarations; (2) potential options for declarations of nuclear weapons; (3) state-wide verification of absence of undeclared weapons; (4) detailed analyses of various aspects of verification of declarations; and, (5) a report from an exercise that tested ideas and concepts from the monitoring and inspection regime of the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) against the requirements for verifying nuclear weapon declarations.
Download the five individual chapters:
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]]>The group also reviewed practical activities, including technology developments by Partner countries, and undertook demonstrations, including an experiment to test the limits of selected passive non-destructive assay nuclear radiation techniques. The group also undertook practical activities, including one measurement campaign and two demonstrations.
Read the summary document for more information on the presentations and activities from Working Group 6:
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]]>Based on the technology requirements identified by the Working Group during the course of its work throughout Phase II, several areas for which technologies either need to be developed or re-engineered to be used specifically for this type of activity were found.
Read the summary document for more information about the technology gaps that were identified:
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