ASNO Annual Report 2021-22

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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ISSN 1839–5090 (Online)
ISSN 1442–7699 (Print)

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 2021–2022.

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.

This report complies with the formal reporting obligations of the Director General ASNO. It provides an overview of ASNO's role and performance in supporting nuclear safeguards and the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

The report has five parts:

1. report by the Director General ASNO on key developments in 2021–22 and a preview of the year ahead
2. a review of selected topics in ASNO's work
3. functional overview of ASNO, including its operating environment and outcomes– outputs structure (the first outcome demonstrates accountability to Government, and the second outlines public outreach and education)
4. report on ASNO's performance during 2021–22 and
5. key features of ASNO's corporate governance and the processes by which ASNO is directed, administered and held accountable.

As 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 and
• ecologically sustainable development and environmental performance.

1. Figure 1: Quantity and value of Australian UOC (U₃O₈) exports from 2012–13 to 2021–22
2. Figure 2: ASNO's Operating Environment
3. Figure 3: ASNO's Organisational Structure at 30 June 2022
4. Figure 4: Civil Nuclear Fuel Cycle

1. Table 1: UOC (U₃O₈) 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: Nuclear Material in Australia at 30 June 2022
5. Table 5: Associated Items in Australia at 30 June 2022
6. Table 6: Status of permits and authorities under the Safeguards Act at 30 June 2022 and changes in the reporting period
7. Table 7: IAEA Safeguards Inspections 2021–22
8. Table 8: Inventory Differences Recorded during 2021–22
9. Table 9: Distribution of permits holders according to security category.
10. Table 10: Summary of net accumulated AONM by category, quantity and location as of 31 December 2021
11. Table 11: Supply of Australian uranium by region/country during 2021
12. Table 12: Summary of AONM Transfers during 2021
13. Table 13: The total quantity of FONM in Australia (by category) from all partner countries as of 31 December 2021
14. Table 14: Permits for CWC-Scheduled Chemical Facilities
15. Table 15: ASNO Staff at 30 June 2022
16. Table 16: ASNO Administrative Costs
17. Table 17: Australia's Nuclear Cooperation Agreements at 30 June 2022