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Domestic Constultancy Meeting on the IAEA's Regional Training Course (Project Summary)
A team of experts from Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) partnered to revise the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) Training Course on Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials and Facilities. This two-week course is a modified version of the three-week International Training Course (ITC) that is delivered on location at SNL. The last significant update to the IAEA Regional Training Course (RTC) RTC material was about 10 years ago. Prior revision efforts for two of the IAEA Materials and Facilities (MAFA) section courses, which were each one week in length, consisted of five consultancy meetings each with US DOE/NNSA personnel and international experts and held in Vienna, Austria. The level of effort anticipated to revise a two-week course was expected to double these previous efforts, which prompted development of an alternative approach to the revision process. The goal of the revision of the two-week course, labeled the RTC, was focused on the capability for delivery at any appropriate international location, most likely regionally by the IAEA.