Project profile — Strengthening radioactive source security in Brazil

• Brazil (100.00%)

• Conflict Prevention And Resolution, Peace And Security: Security system management and reform (15210) (0.00%)
• Unallocated/ Unspecified: Sectors not specified (99810) (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)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

Implemented in cooperation with the US State Department and the International Atomic Energy Agency , this project aims to reduce the security threat posed by Canadian-origin high activity disused sealed radioactive sources (DSRS) in Brazil by safely and securely removing them from the national inventory.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) consolidated 25 high-activity Canadian-origin DSRS at a central repository facility in Sao Paolo; (2) dismantled, conditioned and repackaged the DSRS; and (3) transported the DSRS to a German company for recycling.

Results achieved as of the end of the project (April 2017) include: (1) consolidated 26 Canadian-origin disused sealed radioactive sources (DSRS) at a central repository facility in Sao Paolo; (2) contracted the Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa to provide and operate a mobile hot cell that dismantled, conditioned and repackaged the DSRS; and (3) transported all 26 Canadian-origin DSRS in March 2017 to Gamma Service Recycling GmbH in Germany for recycling.

• Proactive disclosure