ASNO Annual Report 2018-19

PRODUCED BY

Director General ASNO
Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office (ASNO)
RG Casey Building, John McEwen Crescent
BARTON ACT 0221, Australia

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ISBN

Book (softcover) 978-1-74322-502-8
PDF document 978-1-74322-503-5
Word document 978-1-74322-504-2
Web page 978-1-74322-505-9

CREATIVE COMMONS

With the exception of the Commonwealth Coat of Arms and where otherwise noted (including photographs protected by copyright), this report is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/.

The report should be attributed as the Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office Annual Report 2018–2019.

USE OF THE COAT OF ARMS

The terms under which the Coat of Arms can be used are detailed on the It's an Honour website. https://www.pmc.gov.au/government/its-honour.

The report has five parts:

• report by the Director General ASNO on key non-proliferation developments in 2018–19 and a preview of the year ahead
• summary of current major issues
• functional overview of ASNO, including its operating environment and outcomes – outputs structure – the first outcome demonstrates accountability to Government; the second outlines public outreach and education
• report on ASNO's performance during 2018–19
• key features of ASNO's corporate governance and the processes by which ASNO is directed, administered and held accountable.

Because ASNO is funded as a division of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), some mandatory annual report information for ASNO is incorporated in the DFAT Annual Report. This includes:

• financial statements
• corporate governance and accountability framework
• external scrutiny
• human resource management, including work health and safety
• asset management
• purchasing
• agency-specific social inclusion strategies
• advertising and market research
• ecologically sustainable development and environmental performance.

1. Figure 1: Monitoring and verification activities, as identified by the IPNDV, for the key steps in the process of dismantling nuclear weapons
2. Figure 2: Quantity and value of Australian UOC exports from 2009/10 to 2018/19 FY

3. Figure 3: Civil Nuclear Fuel Cycle

   Figure 4: Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office's Operating Environment

   Figure 5: ASNO's Organisational Structure at 30 June 2019

1. Table 1: UOC export and nuclear electricity statistics
2. Table 2: ASNO's Outcomes and Outputs Structure
3. Table 3: Material Balance Areas (MBAs) in Australia for IAEA safeguards purposes
4. Table 4: Number of line entries in inventory and inventory change reports submitted by ASNO to the IAEA for each MBA
5. Table 5: Number of line entries (by report type) submitted by ASNO to the IAEA across all MBAs
6. Table 6: Nuclear Material in Australia at 30 June 2019
7. Table 7: Associated Items³ in Australia at 30 June 2019
8. Table 8: Number of Entries Made under the Additional Protocol
9. Table 9: Status of Permits and Authorities under the Safeguards Act as at 30 June 2019
10. Table 10: IAEA Safeguards Inspections 2018–19
11. Table 11: Inventory Differences Recorded during 2018–19
12. Table 12: Distribution of Permits Holders according to security category
13. Table 13: Summary of net accumulated AONM by category, quantity and location at 31 December 2018
14. Table 14: Supply of Australian uranium by region during 2018
15. Table 15: Summary of AONM Transfers during 2018
16. Table 16: Permits for CWC-Scheduled Chemical Facilities
17. Table 17: DPRK nuclear test explosions
18. Table 18: ASNO Staff at 30 June 2019
19. Table 19: Training and Development Activities during 2018–19
20. Table 20: ASNO Administrative Costs
21. Table 21: ASNO Regulatory Performance Framework Metrics 2018–19
22. Table 22: Processing of permits and approvals July 2018 – June 2019
23. Table 23: Australia's Nuclear Cooperation Agreements at 30 June 2019