NTI at the Institute for Nuclear Materials Management (INMM) 2022 Annual Meeting

Three members of NTI’s Nuclear Materials Security (NMS) team will participate in the 63rd annual meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM), which will be held virtually from July 24-28, 2022.

The conference will convene an array of representatives from government offices, national laboratories, non-governmental organizations, academia, and nuclear industry to share progress on nuclear materials management and safeguards and discuss priorities for the coming year. The theme of this year’s conference is “Moving Forward in a Changing World.”

NMS team members will present papers, serve on panels, and moderate several events at government and NGO-sponsored side events during the conference. The full schedule of NTI participation is below. Learn more about the conference and find the full agenda here.

July 25

• 11:30 AM-1:00 PM EDT: Verifying the Future: Updates from the International Partnership for Nuclear Disarmament Verification, Concurrent Session A. NMS Program Officer Jessica Bufford will moderate this session on the work of the International Partnership for Nuclear Disarmament Verification (IPNDV) since the last INMM annual meeting.
• 2:30-4:00 PM EDT: Diversity, Equity, Accessibility and Inclusion Special Session, Concurrent Session D. Featuring a presentation by NMS Program Officer Jack Brosnan about his paper, “Identifying Structural Obstacles to Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Nuclear Policy Community.”
• 2:30-4:00 PM EDT: International Atomic Energy Agency Information Circular 225 Panel. NMS Senior Director Nickolas Roth will participate as a panelist.

July 26

• 11:00 AM-12:30 PM EDT: Homegrown Violent Extremists: Are They a Threat to Nuclear Facilities? NMS Senior Director Nickolas Roth will moderate this panel discussion on the threat that domestic violent extremists pose to nuclear facilities in the United States.

July 27

• 9:00-10:30 AM EDT: Security Culture/Insider Mitigation. NMS Senior Director Nickolas Roth will moderate this session.

July 28

• 11:00 AM-12:30 PM EDT: Strengthening the implementation of the Amendment to the Convention on Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (A/CPPNM). NTI Program Officer Jessica Bufford will participate in a panel discussion on efforts to promote the universalization and strengthened implementation of the A/CPPNM following the results of the Review Conference.