Remote monitoring data satellite receiving station at IAEA Headquarters.

(Source: IAEA)

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• State supplied information, submitted pursuant to obligations under a safeguards agreement (e.g. nuclear material accounting reports and design information); under an additional protocol (e.g. declarations) and on a voluntary basis (e.g. voluntary reports)
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