Video cameras in their secure housings used for remote monitoring of nuclear sites. The cameras are one of several technological tools used by IAEA inspectors to carry out safeguards and verification checks around the world.

(Source: Dean Calma/IAEA)

Integrated safeguards are the optimum combination of all safeguards measures available to the IAEA under comprehensive safeguards agreements and additional protocols to achieve maximum effectiveness and efficiency in meeting the IAEA's safeguards obligations within available resources. Integrated safeguards are implemented in a State only when the IAEA has drawn a conclusion of the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in that State. Under integrated safeguards, measures may be applied at reduced levels at certain facilities, compared with the measures that would have been applied without this conclusion.