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Created by the governments of Brazil and Argentina in 1991, the Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials is an entity responsible for verifying that the nuclear materials existing in both countries are being used for exclusively peaceful purposes.

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ABACC NEWS

Get to know ABACC’s virtual journal. Access to the most important current events, to articles on the safeguards activities performed by the organization and to opinions by outstanding personalities of the nuclear sector, as well as to technical texts presented in diverse events in Brazil, Argentina and abroad.
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Inspections

The inspectors of the ABACC performed 16 inspections in Brazil and 19 in Argentina

See the table of inspections carried out between November 2007and February 2008.

Agreements

Ministers sign the ABACC's 15 years Declaration

On the 12th December, 2006, the Foreing Affairs Ministers of Argentine and Brazil, Ambasadors Enrique Taiana (Argentine) and Celso Amorim (Brazil) andrenewed the importance of the ABACC during its 15 years.

PUBLICATIONS OF ABACC

ARTICLES

The smoke of the inspector’s pipe: digression on an experience
José Roberto Tavares de Paiva

The work of a nuclear safeguards inspector is not only a complex one: it is a succession of specialized activities that are ruled by international standards resulting from agreements between countries and institutions. An inspector does not perform verifications in a facility just because there is a need to carry out a control. Exactly underlying the word control, there is a story marked by the effort of diverse nations toward avoiding the proliferation of nuclear weapons and their use in wars and in terrorist actions. The time devoted by an inspector to the verification of a nuclear facility is valuable and, implicitly, it involves both a technical and a political nature.

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SPEECHES

Presentation at the Senate of Brazil in the 'Seminar for the Revision of the Treaty for Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons'
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Presented by the Deputy Secretary of ABACC, Dr. Odilon Marcuzzo do Canto, in which is given an overview of the nuclear energy highlighting its importance nowadays

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