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Catawba Hearing - Staff Exhibit 8 (SEC-24), the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and Nuclear Facilities
ML050670215
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Site: Catawba  Duke Energy icon.png
Issue date: 01/13/2005
From:
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
To:
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
Byrdsong A T
References
50-413-0LA, 50-414-0LA, Catawba-Staff-8 (SEC-24), RAS 9469
Download: ML050670215 (5)


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4. ELEMENTS OF A STATE'S SYSTEM OF PHYSICAL PROTECTION OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL AND NUCLEAR FACILITIES 4.1. GENERAL 4.1.1. A State's system of physical protection of nuclear material and nuclear facilities should include the elements described in Sections 4.2. - 4.4. below.

4.1.2. The responsibility for the establishment, implementation and maintenance of a physical protection system wvithin a State rests entirely with that State.

4.13. The State's physical protection system should be based on the State's evaluation of the threat.

Other factors should also be considered, including thc Statc's cmergency response capabilities and the existing and relevant measures of the State's system of accounting for and control of nuclear material.

The recommended physical protection measures are intended for all nuclear material inuse and storage and during transportand for all nuclear facilities.

4.1.4. A design basis threat developed from an evaluation by the State of the threat of unauthorized removal of nuclear material and of sabotageof nuclear material and nuclear facilities is an essential element of a State's system of physical protection. The State should continuously review the threat, and evaluate the implications of any changes in that threat for the levels and the methods of physical protection.

4.1.5. It is essential that the State's system of physical protection for nuclear material and nuclear facilities be reviewed and updated periodically to reflect advances made in the state of the art inphysical protection hardwvare and systems or introduction of newv typcs of facilities. Further, the design of a physical protection system for a specific facility may vary from these recommendations when prevailing circumstances indicate a need for a different level of physical protection.

4.1.6. The State should develop and implement emergency plans for any needed response to unauthorizedremoval and subsequent unauthorized use of nuclear material or sabotage of nuclear material or nuclear facilities to support and supplement, wihn needed, those emergency plans prepared by operators.

4.1.7. The recommended measures are in all cases additional to, and not a substitute for, other measures established for safety purposes for nuclear material inuse and storage and during transportand for nuclear facilities.

4.2. LEGISLATION AND REGULATIONS 4.2.1. The State's legislation should provide for the regulation of physical protection and include a licensing requirement. The State should promulgate and review regularly its comprehensive regulations forthe physical protection of nuclear material and nuclear facilities whethcr in State or private possession.

4.2.2. The State should define requirements for the physical protection of nuclear material inuse and storage and during transportand for nuclear facilities depending on the associated consequences of either uinauthoHzedremoval of nuclear material or sabotage. For protection against unauthorizedremoval of nuclear material, the State should regulate the categorization of nuclear material (see Chapter S) inorder measures. 4.2.5. Physical protection requirements for nuclear material in use and storage and during pertaining transportand for nuclear facilities protection d on these 4.2.5.1. State requirements for the physical protection of nuclear material should take into account the

.ther those category of nuclear material, its location (use, storage, during transport)and the particular circumstances prevailing either in the State or along the transportation route. When considering the measures required for the physical protection ofnuclear material against unauthorized removal or sabotage, the State should take into account the iittractiveness':and self-protccting nature of the material, the radiological consequences, and the containment measures used for safety reasons.

z establish should be 4.2.5.2. State requirements for physical protection should be based on the concept of defence in depth nd licence for preventive and protective measures. The concept of physical protcction is one which requires a designed needed. mixture of hardware (security devices), procedures (including the organization of guards and the performance of their duties) and facility design (including layout). The physical protection system is

,owered to designed specifically for each facility taking into account the State's design basis threat.

on. If the Authorities, 4.2.5.3. The State's competent authority should ensure that the operator prepares emergency plans of stablished action to counter effectively the design basis threat, including attempted unauthorizedremoval of nuclear material or sabotagetaking into consideration actions of the responseforce.

ependence 4.2.5A. Several types of nuclear facilities pose a hazard to the environment incase of sabotagebecause onsibilities of the potential for release of radioactivity. Therefore, it is important that the level of protection of the facility should take the radiological consequences into consideration.

tC 4.2.5.5. The State should define requirements for the physical protection of nuclear facilities against sabotage. They should take into account possible releases of radioactivity, the location of the nuclear facility, and the particular circumstances prevailing in the State. Adequate physical protection measures anof should be implemented for nuclear facilities which may be subject to sabotage regardless of the categorization of nuclear materials therein contained.

s physical 4.2.5.6. The State's evaluation of the threat should dctenninc if there is a credible threat to disperse

t sabotage nuclear material malevolently. The State should then apply the level of physical protection measures needed to ensure protection against tie acts leading to radiological consequences without regard to thc categorisation of the material.

4.2.6. Additional physical protection requirements ror nuclear material during transport I protection range to the 4.2.6.1. During international transportof nuclear material the responsibility for physical protection

Jy reflected measures should be the subject of agreement between the States concerned. The shipping State should consider, before allowing the international transport,if the States involved in the transport, including the transit States:

r any other

- are Parties to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (INFCIRC/274 Rev.l); or I protection have concluded with it a formal agreemnent which cnsurcs that physical protection arrangements ry szrvey of are implemented; or e continued ich as those formally declare that their physical protection arrangements arc implemented according to internationally accepted guidelines; or

- have issued liccnces which contain appropriate physical protection provisions for the transport

5. CATEGORIZATION OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL 5.1. BASIS FOR CONCERN 5.1.1. In determining the lcvcl of physical protection to be implemcnted for nuclear materials inuse and storage or during transport account should be taken of the possibility that the unauthorizedremoval of plutonium, highly enriched uranium or uranium-233 could lead to the construction of a nuclear explosive device by a technically competent group.

5.2. CATEGORIZATION 55.2.1. Mme primary factor for determining the physical protection measures against unauthorizedremoval

  • of nuclear material is the nuclear material itself, categorized in accordance with the following table which gives a categorization of the different types of nuclear material and with the considerations given below.

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