NNSA Administrator D'Agostino's Safeguards Conference Travel Blog | National Nuclear Security Administration

This week, NNSA Administrator Thomas D'Agostino attended the second international meeting on Next Generation Safeguards in Tokai-mura, Ibaraki Japan. This page documents the Administrator's travels as he promoted NNSA's safeguards programs and international work.

Read the Administrator's remarks at a press roundtable in Tokyo here.

Read the Administrator's opening remarks at the safeguards meeting here.

View the Administrator's photo album (external link):

Watch the Administrator's media roundtable at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo (more NNSA video available here - external link):

Watch U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu's speech, which highlights the importance of safeguards, at the 53rd General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency last month in Vienna:

Watch an introductory video about IAEA's safeguards laboratory, where more than 1,000 samples of nuclear material are analyzed each year:

You can also check for updates on NNSA's Twitter page (external link) or follow along by becoming a fan of the agency on Facebook (external link)

PUBLICATIONS

• NNSA Next Generation Safeguards Initiative FY2009 Annual Report - NGSI_annual_report.pdf
• NNSA Next Generation Safeguards Initiative Brochure - NGSI_Trifold_9-1-09_final.pdf
• NNSA Next Generation Safeguards Initiative FY2009 Accomplishments - NGSI_Insert_8-28-09_blue(cropped).pdf

PRESS RELEASES

• NNSA and MEXT to Co-host Second International Meeting on Next Generation Safeguards
• NNSA Launches Second Travel Blog to Feature Administrator’s Work at Next Generation Safeguards Meeting in Japan
• Secretary Chu's Remarks at the IAEA General Conference

FACT SHEETS

• NNSA Next Generation Safeguards Initiative

SAFEGUARDS WORK AT THE LABS

• Next Generation Safeguards Initiatives at Los Alamos National Laboratory - NGSI_Student_Pamphlet_for_2009_INMM.pdf
• Meeting the Next Century's Challenges: Los Alamos Nuclear Nonproliferation Division - N_Div_Fact_Sheet_V3.pdf
• Los Alamos: Working to Safeguard Nuclear and Hazardous Material
• Los Alamos: Safeguards and Security Systems
• PNNL: Pacific Northwest Center for Global Security
• PNNL: Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation