Introduction
The
International Nuclear Society Council (INSC)
is an organization whose Member Societies
represent more than 50,000 nuclear
professionals around the world. Current INSC
Member Societies are:
American Nuclear
Society (ANS)
Asociación
Argentina de Tecnologia Nuclear
(AATN)
Associação
Brasileira de Energia Nuclear
(ABEN)
Atomic Energy
Society of Japan (AESJ)
Australian Nuclear
Association (ANA)
Canadian Nuclear
Society (CNS)
Egyptian Society of
Nuclear Sciences and Applications
(ESNSA)
European Nuclear
Society (ENS)
Austrian Nuclear Society, Belgian
Nuclear Society, British Nuclear
Energy Society, Bulgarian Nuclear
Society, Croatian Nuclear
Society, Czech Nuclear Society,
Danish Nuclear Society, Finnish
Nuclear Society, French Nuclear
Society, German Nuclear Society,
Hungarian Nuclear Society, The
Institution of Nuclear Engineers,
Italian Nuclear Society, Italian
Local Section of ANS, Netherlands
Nuclear Society, Nuclear Society
of Russia, Nuclear Society of
Slovenia, Polish Nuclear Society,
Romanian Nuclear Energy
Professional Organization, Slovak
Nuclear Society, Spanish Nuclear
Society, Swedish Nuclear Society,
Swiss Nuclear Society, Ukrainian
Nuclear Society, Yugoslav Nuclear
Society.
Israel Nuclear
Society (INS)
Korean Nuclear
Society (KNS)
Latin American
Section (LAS)
Nuclear Energy
Society, China, Taipei (NEST)
Pakistan Nuclear
Society (PNS)
Sociedad Nuclear
Mexicana (SNM)
INSC
was founded on 11th November 1990 by the
INSG, an international group of Nuclear
Societies.
Objectives
1.To
be a global forum for Nuclear Societies to
discuss and establish common aims and goals.
2.To
act as a global Non Governmental Organization
in nuclear matters of international nature.
3.To
represent the views and positions of
professionals and workers in the nuclear
field through their Nuclear Societies.
4.To
value the work and achievements of the
nuclear community of the world based on
ethical principles adopted by the Nuclear
Societies.
5.To
increase the operational efficiency of
Nuclear Societies by establishing means for
cooperation and complementation in the
execution of their programs.
Organization
Nuclear
Societies members of the International
Nuclear Societies Council (INSC) have been
grouped in five geographical regions:
Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, North
America and At-Large (representing the other
regions of the world).
Each
region has six seats in the Council, where
national and regional Nuclear Societies, or
Federations of Nuclear Societies, are
represented. Within a region, the number of
seats has been allocated by agreement among
the Member Societies of the region.
As
of 31 December 1998, the membership of the
Council is as follows:
(*)
Charter Member.
(**) The Chinese Nuclear Society is
considered a Charter Member of the
Asia-Pacific region, but has not signed the
INSC Charter.
Officers
INSC
has four officers: Chairman, 1st
Vice-Chairman, 2nd Vice-Chairman and
Secretary/Treasurer. In addition, to give the
necessary material support to the
organization, the Chairman appoints an
assistant from his Society to perform his
secretarial activities.
The
officers are elected by majority vote of the
members of the Council. The term of office is
two years, starting on January 1st of the
year following the election.
The
following table lists the INSC officers since
its creation:
(*)
The 2nd Vice-Chairman post was established in
1993
(**) Robert Long resigned on 30 Sep. 1997
Representatives
Identification
Pins
with the INSC logo, and different background
colours to identify the bearer, are provided
to Member Societies' representatives, in
accordance with the following criteria:
Red - Former
Chairman
Gold - Chairman
Silver - 1st and 2nd
Vice-Chairmen
Blue - Secretary/Treasurer
Copper - Representative of
Member Society
White - Responsible for the
Secretariat
Bylaws
and Rules
Annex
I and II contain the INSC Bylaws and Rules
that are currently in force. Annex III is a
Guideline approved by the Council.
Code
of Ethics and Public Statements
Annex
IV contains the Code of Ethics, called Global
Creed, approved by INSC for adoption by
Member Societies. The list of Member
Societies having adopted it is included in
the Annex.
Annex
V and VI show statements made public by the
Council on matters regarding Nuclear Energy
Role in XXIst Century Development and Illegal
Trade of Fissile Materials.
The
Council accepted the Declaration on Nuclear
Energy and Sustainable Development shown in
Annex VII.
In
connection with the 50th Anniversary of the
A-bomb and the NPT Extension Conference, the
Council made a statement expressing INSC hope
for nuclear energy to be utilized exclusively
for peaceful uses. The statement refers to
the INSC Global Creed prescribing the
promotion of peaceful uses of nuclear energy
(Annex VIII).
Global
Award
In
order to recognize the dedication, based on
the Global Creed principles, to the cause of
nuclear energy development performed by
individual members of Member Societies, the
Council instituted a Global Award as defined
in Annex IX.
The
first INSC Global Award was conferred to Dr.
Hans BLIX at the INSC meeting of October
1998, for "his remarkable leadership in
influencing global improvement of nuclear
installations safety, his active
participation in consolidating the safeguards
system for nuclear non-proliferation, and his
firm leadership in advocating nuclear power
relevance as an energy source consistent with
goals of sustainable development and
environmental protection".
A
posthumous recognition for "his
outstanding chairmanship of INSC, his role in
consolidating the Council and his commitment
to nuclear technology" was awarded to
Professor MISHIMA Yoshitsugu, former INSC
Chairman, at the Honors and Awards Ceremony
held in Nice, France, on 27th October 1998,
on the occasion of ENC'98.
Internet
Home-page
INSC
has a Home-page in Internet under the
following address:
http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~insc/
Technical
Actions
Safety Convention
INSC
views on the peer-review system for the
Safety Convention were reported to the IAEA
and the Convention Parties in December 1994
(Annex X). This system can accommodate the
concept of a list of experts for peer-review
made by INSC from inputs by Member Societies.
A proposal containing a list of experts
nominated by the Member Societies was sent to
the Secretary of the Nuclear Safety
Convention in spring 1995. (Currently, 57
experts have been nominated by ANA, AESJ,
ANS, LAS and NEST). Informative actions took
place, in the 1995-96 period, to explain to
some Parties and governments the purpose and
scope of this proposal.
50-Year Vision of
Future Nuclear Energy
Based
on the accomplishment of the first fifty
years of development, new directions of
nuclear energy utilization in the second
fifty years were analyzed from a global
standpoint and a long-term view. After more
than two years of work by the 50-Year Vision
Committee, under the leadership of Mr Masao
Hori, INSC published the report "A
Vision for the Second Fifty Years of Nuclear
Energy". More than 12,800 copies of the
report have been issued in English, Hebrew,
Japanese, Korean, Polish languages,
Portuguese and Spanish. The Study is expected
to be translated into other languages. INSC
holds the publication copyright.
This
report represents a professional, global, and
uncompromised view of those engaged in the
development and utilization of nuclear power
and related research all around the world:
professional,
because it was written by
technical people who belong to
Nuclear Societies that take part
of INSC;
global, because it
gathers the opinion of some
50,000 people from around the
world who are represented at INSC
through their Nuclear Societies;
uncompromised,
because it reflects no political
or commercial boundaries, just
the consensus of the nuclear
community worldwide.
A
Press Release regarding this publication was
issued in April 1996 as shown in Annex XI.
Enhancement of
Soviet Reactors Safety
Member
Societies described the activities being
performed in their countries for enhancing
the safety of Soviet designed reactors. Data
on actions taken by different countries for
improving the safety of such reactors was
consolidated by the 1995-96 Secretariat.
Young Generation
Nuclear Development
The
Council decided to set up a Young Generation
Development Committee to prepare a statement
proposal to promote the work of younger
generations in the nuclear area, taking into
account the opinion of the young generation
entering the nuclear business.
Climate Change
Aiming
at providing subsidies to governments in
their discussions at the Conferences on
Climate Change, the Council made public
statements to underline nuclear power
contribution for achieving targets of
combustion gases to reduce CO2 emissions and
to uphold sustainable development. These
statements were distributed at the
International Conferences of the Parties held
in Kyoto (COP3 - December 1997) and Buenos
Aires (COP4 - November 1998). The statements
are reproduced in Annex XII.
Action Plan for the
Coming Future
The
"Action Plan for the Coming Future"
was launched by the International Nuclear
Societies Council at the end of 1996, with
the aim of reinforcing communication and
mutual understanding among INSC Member
Societies on several nuclear issues of global
importance.
Seven
INSC Task Groups, made of experts coming from
the different INSC Member Societies, were
constituted to work on the following
subjects:
Nuclear Safety
Public Acceptance
Nuclear Role in
Coming Future
Radioactive Waste
Nuclear
Non-Proliferation
Risk Issues
Low Doses Issues.
Reports
produced by the Task Groups were issued as
chapters of an INSC book entitled
"WORLDWIDE INTEGRATED VIEW ON MAIN
NUCLEAR ENERGY ISSUES". The first
edition of the book, dated October 1998, was
presented at a Special Session organized in
conjunction with ENC'98 in Nice, France. The
chapters refer to:
Toward a worldwide
consensus about safety of nuclear
reactors
Achieving public
understanding and acceptance of
nuclear power
Important issues of
global utilization of nuclear
energy
Radioactive waste
Nuclear
non-proliferation
Role of risk methods
in the regulation of nuclear
power
Low doses of
ionizing radiation incurred at
low dose rates.
Summaries
of chapter contents and the composition of
each Task Group are presented in Annex XIII.
As
the chapters reflect today's views, the book
shall be continuously updated and improved.
The book will have periodical revisions and
introduce other issues that may become of
interest.
A
report by a group of Young Generation
professionals was produced with this group's
views on matters related to nuclear science
and technology. The report does not represent
the INSC position on such matters. This
group's composition and the contents of its
report are shown in Annex XIII. The group's
report was issued in October 1998 as an
independent publication.
Cooperative
Actions
Information Network
The
possibility of setting up a system of
exchange among member Societies of technical
information, R&D recent results, and
newly developed operating practices, under
the INSC umbrella, is being considered. The
system shall not duplicate existing networks.
Waste Disposal
Development
of the International Council for Nuclear
Waste Disposal (ICND) will receive Council
support provided INSC plays an important role
in its activities.
Pacific Basin
Council
Common
meetings for exchange of information and
cooperative efforts are periodically
organized.
IAEA
The
Council is recognized by the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as a Non
Governmental Organization, having an Observer
seat at the General Conference of the Agency.
Meetings
INSC
meets twice a year in conjunction with major
nuclear energy meetings. INSC meetings have
been held as follows:
