# " RECOVER REMOTE CONTINUAL VERIFICATION " 1983 NUCLEAR ARMS CONTROL REGIME FILM / SAFEGUARDS 71972

Created in the 1980s by the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, this rarely-seen technical film profiles the International Atomic Energy Agency and its Department of Safeguards and discusses how it is implementing a nuclear safeguard program so that nuclear materials from power plants are not used to create weapons. The idea of having periodic on-site inspectors by IAEA personnel under the "remote continual verification system" (aka RECOVER) was evaluated for a number of major nuclear fuel-cycle facility types. Those considered were light-water reactors, pressurized heavy-water power reactors (specifically, CANDU-600's), fast critical facilities (modelled after the Japanese facility, FCA), mixed-oxide fuel-fabrication plants, spent-fuel reprocessing plants, and inactive stores of plutonium or highly-enriched uranium. The purpose was not only to continually monitor safeguard devices at reactors worldwide, and to deter weaponization by any party. 00:00: Beginning of the Atomic Age and the founding of the United Nations in 1945. 0:48: The UN has aimed to control atomic power for peaceful uses since its inception. In 1954, President Eisenhower proposed the establishment of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). 1:29: The IAEA was established to develop atomic energy for the benefit of all mankind. The IAEA headquarters were located in Vienna, Austria.1:50: In 1979, the IAEA moved to its permanent location in the Vienna International Centre. The IAEA administers…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Science, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/71972RecoveryRemoteContinualVerifaction)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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