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Please join us for a lunchtime seminar with Marco Marzo, current Secretary-General of the Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials (ABACC).

Talking points:

  • Legal framework of ABACC
  • The evolution of ABACC’s safeguards
  • Current verification activities in Argentina and Brazil
  • Relationship with the IAEA
  • Future challenges
    • New technologies
    • Special procedures for naval propulsion
    • Additional Protocol

Mr Marzo is presently the Secretary-General of the Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials (ABACC), which is responsible for applying safeguards in Argentina and Brazil. From September 2014 to June 2016, he was a Research Professor at University of Massachusetts Lowell. He was the Director of the Division of Operations A, Department of Safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from 2008 to 2014. Mr. Marzo was co-founder and the first Senior Officer for Planning and Evaluation of ABACC from 1992 to 2006. Mr. Marzo was Director of the Safeguards Division at the Brazilian Nuclear Energy Commission from 1983 to 1992 and led the Brazilian technical delegation to the negotiation of the bilateral agreement with Argentina. He was member of the Standing Advisory Group on Safeguards Implementation (SAGSI) of the IAEA. He has published 60+ technical articles in the area of nuclear safeguards and security. He holds a PhD in nuclear engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981.

Lunch will be provided. 

Cohosted by the Centre for Science & Security Studies and King's Brazil Institute.

Event details

S0.03
Strand Building
Strand Campus, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS