Project profile — Prototype cooperating national facility for monitoring nuclear test explosions

• Kazakhstan (100.00%)

• Conflict Prevention And Resolution, Peace And Security: Security system management and reform (15210) (100.00%)

• Gender equality (not targeted)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)
• Nutrition (not targeted)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)

The project funds Health Canada to provide technical consultants for the project to provide Kazakhstan with an atmospheric radionuclide monitoring station. The station will be established as a prototype cooperating national facility to monitor compliance with the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) increased ability to produce additional data to strengthen the ability to monitor compliance with the Treaty; (2) increased ability to produce refined information on local or regional background levels of radionuclides; and (3) a radionuclide data sharing agreement between Canada and Kazakhstan

Results achieved as of June 2023 include: (1) observed the factory acceptance test for the radionuclide detection equipment in December 2018; and (2) conducted a site visit to National Nuclear Centre in Kazakhstan in October 2022.

• Proactive disclosure
• Related activities: Prototype cooperating national facility for Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty monitoring