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November 9-20, 1988, to conduct a 5-day uranium enrichment safeguards training course for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The course was developed and conducted by Energy Systems for the IAEA through the U . S . Program for Technical Assistance to IAEA Safeguards (POTAS) under Task B.48.Titled "Nuclear Material Safeguards for Enrichment Plants," this second session of the course was held on November 14-18, 1988, for 15 IAEA inspectorate and support division personnel. The course was developed and initially taught in 1987 to train IAEA professionals whose responsibilities require knowledge of safeguarding nuclear material at enrichment plants on the safeguards-relevant principles of enrichment technology, particularly as related to centrifuge enrichment facilities. Based on comments received during the initial training session, the course and reference materials were revised, updated, and expanded. The main objective of the course is to provide participants with the necessary skills to perform their inspection activities at enrichment plants.Overall, the course was very well received; the four-part course manual was especially appreciated because of the text accompanying the view graphs.The general consensus was that the course should be repeated so that inspectors who could not be accommodated in this session will have a chance to be trained in this important area of safeguards.Because of the breadth of the information presented in the course, an IAEA staff member, A . von Baeckmann of the Safeguards Deputy Director General's Office, and a POTAS cost-free expert, J. Olivier of the Safeguards Training Section, assisted in conducting two of the lecture sessions. In addition, D. A. Close, a POTAS cost-free expert from Los Alamos National Laboratory currently with the IAEA's Development Division, conducted a half-day measurement equipment demonstration at

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