This shared interest in and commitment to promoting the safe and secure use of nuclear energy is reflected in several international agreements, including: – The Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (1979)(CPPNM) and as amended (2016); – The Convention on the Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986); – The Convention on Nuclear Safety (1994)(CNS); and 1 Ambassadors (reti. [...] Congress, among others, are beginning to pay attention to the implications of the impact of climate change on different aspects of the built environment.9 National governments and the international community will need to address in the coming years the potential of cascading vulnerabilities and possibly failures of a fundamental element of the nuclear security system: the buildings that contain nu. [...] Those seeds are found in Articles 2A (3), 14,16, and 20; they just need to be harvested by state parties to the Convention with the support of the IAEA.15 4.1 The seeds of a dynamic nuclear security system Article 2A(3) of the Convention says state parties, in implementing their Convention obligation to develop a domestic nuclear security regime, shall, to the extent possible, apply the Fundamenta. [...] Article 16 establishes a first Review Conference, with the possibility of subsequent meetings, at which state parties meet to review the Convention’s implementation and “its adequacy as concerns the preamble, the whole of the operative part and the annexes in the light of the then prevailing situation.” The state parties at the Convention Review Conference, along with the IAEA as the Convention’s. [...] – To consolidate its work and prepare for the next round of intersessional discussions, the Review Conference, with the support of the IAEA, should produce the following: • A report on common challenges and good practices related to implementing Convention obligations and universalizing the Convention.
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