Interview with Elena Sokova, the Executive Director of VCDNP

by Susan Cohen What is the VCDNP? Why is it based in Vienna, Austria? How does the VCDNP promote peace and security? How can it further nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation? VCDNP’s Executive Director, Elena Sokova, can answer these questions. She talks to Susan Cohen about the work of the organization. Susan Cohen: Would you briefly…

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Safeguards for Reprocessing: The Rokkasho Experience

by Susan Cohen Do women experience any unique challenges working for the IAEA? Or in Japan? What is safeguards by design (SBD) and how was it introduced into the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant? What was the international concern over the building of a commercial scale reprocessing plant in a non-nuclear-weapon State? Shirley Johnson has spent most…

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