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U.S. Energy Department Personnel Conduct Nonproliferation, Export Control Seminars in Several Countries
In the past three months, the U.S. Energy Department has conducted training programs on nonproliferation and export controls in Russia, other former Soviet states and Eastern Europe, according to a report by a department official published this week by the Monterey Institute of International Studies’ NIS Export Control Observer (see GSN, March 23). In early February, a team of Energy Department specialists conducted two regional workshops of nuclear-related export controls in St. Petersburg, according to Richard Talley, of the department’s Office of Export Control Policy and Cooperation. The workshops were the first to be held by the department in cooperation with the Russian Economic Development and Trade Ministry. Also in February, Energy Department personnel, along with speakers from the International Atomic Energy Agency, Euratom and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, conducted two workshops on nuclear export control cooperation activities in Ukraine. In March, U.S. and Ukrainian technical export control specialists held a course of nuclear-related commodity identification for Ukrainian customs inspectors. In mid-March, U.S. technical specialists held a weeklong course on WMD commodity identification in Sofia for Bulgarian customs inspectors, Talley reported. Later that month, Energy Department personnel, along with the Kazakhstan Atomic Energy Committee, held a course in the Kazakh city of Almaty on nonproliferation and internal compliance programs for Kazatomprom, the country’s national nuclear operator, and several small nuclear entities (Richard Talley, NIS Export Control Observer, April 2004).
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