Mark Ling discusses the types of security improvements he oversees as Nuclear Security Advisor to theGlobal Partnership Program.

Mark Ling is a Nuclear Security Advisor for the Global Partnership Program at Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, as well as for the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.

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Security Improvements

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Security Improvements

My name is Mark Ling, and I am the security expert for the Global Partnership Program. I work with the policy people and advise them on technical matters for our program. I’ve been in the nuclear industry now for 26 years. I started off with Atomic Energy of Canada, at the Chalk River laboratories. I moved from there to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, where I am still employed. I spend 50 percent of my time with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission and do 50 percent of my work with the Canadian Global Partnership Program.

I have been doing this now for about two years, working at various sites and projects. My role is to take all the recommendations from our technical expert team we have from Raytheon Canada, review it and advise Nicole and her colleagues as to what we should proceed with in the technical interests of the program.

Our goal for this visit, the second phase of the work we are doing here at the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, is that we will be looking at new proposals and additional work that they want to do keeping in mind at all times that we want to meet our international requirements plus at least be equal to or better than most facilities that right now don’t have any security around them.

Today while we are here at PNPI, we will be looking at equipment that has been purchased through our first contract with PNPI. It will involve types of computers and access control equipment we have purchased to help increase the delay in identification of employees and staff coming into the facility. Also we will be looking at their proposals, which again, will list a bunch of areas that need to be improved as far as security goes because they represent weak spots in the security plan. Our overall goal is to come away this time with an agreement on our second phase, to help finish and complete the work here at PNPI.