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Submits Physical Security Plan for Nuclear Energy Lab at UCLA Per 10CFR73.40
ML20155K341
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Issue date: 04/01/1976
From: Kastenberg W
CALIFORNIA, UNIV. OF, LOS ANGELES, CA
To: Rusche B
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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April 1, 1976 Bernard C. Rusche Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C, 20555

Dear Sir:

Due to the sensitive nature of the cont.ents of this letter, we request that this document be withheld from public disclosure pursuant to ,

Section 2.790 of 10 CFR Part 2.

The physical security plan for the Nuclear Energy Laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles as required by 1) CFR Part 73.40 is as follows:

The Nuclear Energy Laboratory presently has in its possession 9.0 kg of Special Nuc1 car Material in the form of 93* enriched uraniun (fuel plates, fuel scraps and uranyl nitrate) and two 32 gm Pu - Be neutron sources. Of the SNM in the exempt form, 3.6 kgs of U-235 is in the reactor and 0.7 kg is in the radioactive storage pits. The 4.7 kgs of 52' in the non-exer..pt form are stored in the radioactive storage room.

I. Design Features

- A. Essential Equipment The UCLA reactor is an Argonaut-type nuclear reactor and is l located in 2567 Boelter Hall. The reactor is described in figures (pages)

I through 9 of Appendix A.

The UCLA R-1 Reactor is an extremely safe reactor. It has both a large negative void and a large negative temperature coefficient, since it is an under-moderated reactor. Figure 10 describes the cooling system of the reactor. A descriptive account of the safety systems, records and reporting procedures are included in Appendix B. Appendix B is a summary of our License No. R-71, our Technical Specifications.

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B. Security Area The security areas (reactor high bay and radioactive storage room) are identified in figures 11 through 13. Figure 11 describes the first floor, figure 12 describes the second floor, and figure 13 describes the i radioactive storage area in detail. The alarm system is shown with the l ultrasonic transmitter and receiver transducers identified by an "X",

the magnetic switches for the doors by a "Y" and the two master control units by a "Z".

The radioactive storage room is located below ground level so that all outside walls are backed by earth fill. The inside walls are two-foot-thick concrete block, and the two steel mesh doors provide the only j access to the area. The inner door, 81, is backed by a steel plate and I has two locks. One of the locks is keyed to "A" IcVel, the Master 1cvel, and the other lock is a Sargent and Greenleaf combination padlock No. S077A, l which meets the specifications outlined in AEC Regulatory Guide 5.12. l The outer door #2 is keyed to "A" level. (Refer to Figure 13.) The fuel plates and fuel scraps are stored in a Metal File Cabinet Safe, Model T-20, Serial ?lo 45727, made by Underwriters 1.aboratory. It is secured to the north concrete wall and floor by 1x1x1/S angle iron. A separate key and ,

combination are required to open it. One fuel bundle with attached thermo4 couples is stored in an 8 foot long 6 inch steel schedule 40 pipe with a  ;

steel lid hinged and locked with a Sargent and Green 1caf combination l padlock. The pipe is welded to the north concrete wall. All the bolts i securing the safe and the schedule 40 pipe are welded to the angle iron to prevent easy removal. Tne two Pu - Be neutron sources are kept in steel drums filled with paraffin, chained to the cast wall, and secured with the same type of Sargent and Greenicaf Ue.bination padlocks. The uranyl nitrate. l (250 gms) is stored in padlocked steel icckers at the south end of the room. l The storage pits in the reactor high 1:ay ara composed of cylindrical holes, 6.5 feet deep, set into the concrete floor, The tvlinn rs are secured with a 4 foot 1cng, 10 inch diameter, 380 pound s:ee,', lined concrete plug which can only be removed with a special handling devic's or the reactor room crane. The concrete plug handling device and the crane are both secured with Sergent and Greenleaf padlocks.

The remainder of the enriched uranium is kept in the reactor.

Due to its power history, the fuel is too hot to handle without cumbersome shielding. The crane, the handling cask, shielding and a great deal of tice are required in order to remove it from the reactor and then from the facility.

C. Operational Requirements C-level areas are peripheral areas of the laboratory that include only the reception room and an adjacent library used by students. All keyholders of higher icvel (A and B) have access to the C-level. Access to the C-level is normally free during regular working hours, but is i'

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limited to keyholders at other times. A small number of C-level keys are assigned tv student users of the library who are known to the school.

B-level areas are adjacent to the A-level areas and consist of the reactor control room, a class room, and laboratory space. The class room is used primarily for undergraduate instruction, the laboratory areas for graduate student and contract research. Key access to the B-level is limited to individual faculty members, and graduate students upon the basis of need and when they have completed a training course in radiological safety. The custodian and the secretary-receptionist are assigned B-level keys. Undergraduate students use the B-level areas only under supervision, they must successfully pass the radiological safety cource, but are not assigned keys on the basis of class participation only.

A-level areas include the reactor room and the shop areas normally accessible only through the reactor room. The suberitical facility including the passageway leading to the radioactive storage room is also an A-level area. A-level access is provided to the Director of the Labor-atory, the Resident !!calth Physicist, and five staff employees that engage in reactor operations and gaintenance. Students, visitors, and building maintenance personnel must be escorted by an A-level keyholder in A-level ,

areas.

Access to the radioactive storage areas is necessarf to (1) obtain experimental materials , (2) perform radiation surveys, (3) inventory SE, (4) effect S2."! transfers, and (5) escort and assist the UCLA police under i alarm conditions. Spare reactor fuc1 elements and scrap, both of the non-exempt form are stored in a safe within the radioactive storage area.

Access to that safe is required only for the inventory and/or transfer of that material. The Technical Specifications assign responsibility for the reactor fuel to the Reactor Supervisor.

D. Security Systens 1.a. Locks and Keys Every door leading into the Nuclear Energy Laboratory and every door within the facility is under a lock and key system comprised of three levels: A, B, and C. The lock and key system is under the control of the Laboratory Security Officer, who keeps a written and signed record l of the individuals possessing keys. Proposed changes in the lock and key system cust be reviewed and approved by the Laboratory Security Officer. -

l Level-B keys are issued to qualified individuals who have taken the laboratory health physics course and who have passed the health physics and laboratory procedures test. This group includes professors, students, the secretary, and the custodian.

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. One level B key is also issued to the UCLA Police Department to be used by the patrol and the detective units only. The personnel of these two units are given a condensed course on health physics, equipnent, access points, and emergency procedures. They are not given an exam, but will receive the course on an annual basis.

Level-C keys are issued to unqualified students for office space or for the use of our library.

The locks are Corbin heavy duty cylindrical six pin locks. The key blanks are off master and in the registrated key section of UCLA, ceaning that no one may obtain or use this type of blank which is of the east coast variety. This was done to reduce the possibility of compronise.

The key level required for passage through the doors in this facility is shown by letters A,B, or C in figures 11, 12, and 13. The letter D means dummied lock, it cannot be unlocked by any key from the outside. The door can be opened only from the inside for emergency egress. I 1.b. Ultrasonic Intrusion - Detection System The ultrasonic alarm system was manufactured by llalter Kidde and Co. , and was installed by the Physical Plant of UCLA. The type, model, and part number of each piece of equipment for the system appears on page '

14 in Appendix A.

2. Communications In the event of a security violation, the following corsunication system i., used. The alarm system registers a ;ccurity violation. A signal is sent along an isolated tanper proof telephone line to the 24 hour2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> manned Moneywell Alarm Receiver 1-l0403,D located at the UCLA Police Station.

At the station there is also a recorder which prints out the status on each and every alarm. The status categories are normal, alare, and troubic.

Trouble means tempering with the system and the appropriate action is to assume that it is an alarm.

An officer on duty then calls the patrol units on a two-way radio.

If the officers are not in their cars, they still would have direct voice contact since they carry portable radios. The officer on duty then telephones the laboratory personnel listed in order on the Nuclear Energy Laboratory Emergency Procedure list until one is contacted. The contacted individual then proceeds to the laboratory to assist and to advise the police on the situation.

II. Administrative Controls l A. Organization

1. Security Organi:ation The Laboratory Security Officer is responsibic for the facility l security program. He controls the distribution of keys, maintains records _

of key distribution, provides up-dated personnel access lists, communicates )

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with and provides limited training for the police, and performs the annual  ;

review and test of the security program. lle is an A-level keyholder.

On a day-to-day basis, all A-level keyholders are responsibic for l observance of the Security Plan.

The UCLA Police Department is responsible for detecting any in-trusion during working and non-working hours, and for taking the appropriate action in the event of a security violation. The Police Department has, at a minimum, 6 units (men) on duty at all tines. At night between the hours of 1630 and 0130, there is in addition, a one man foot patrol around and through the Engineering Building, Boelter Hall. He checks the doors and looks to see if there is any unusual activity taking place.

2. Local Law Enforcement Authorities The UCIA Police i epartment has as a back up the West Los Angeles Police Department. This '.s possible because of a mutual aid agree =ent between the two parties.

B. Access Control t

1. Personnel At the present time, there are seven peopic who have A-level keys, and are authori:ed to enter the reactor high bay. Tais group includes the Director, the Resident Health Physicist, and five staff employees. Level-B and C keyholders may enter the reactor high bay if they are accompanied by one who has an A-level key. The following personnel, by title, are issued A-level keys: Director, Laboratory !!anager, Laboratory Security Officer, Reactor Supervisor, !!cchanician, Electronics Technician, Resident Health Physicist. The names of individuals holding these titles are on file with .

the UCLA police department and can be obtained from the Laboratory Security '

Officer. I

2. Control The door to the reactor room (and connecting shop areas) can be \

opened only with an A-level (master) key. All A-1cyc1 personnel, and no others, are authori:ed to activate and deactivate the intruder detection system of the reactor room.

Access to the radioactive storage room requires (1) an A-level key, (2) kr}owledge of the combination to the Sargent G Greenicaf combination [

l lock, and (3) Knowledge of a code word to the police station that permits t l deactivation of the ala m system covering that area. The police department is instructed to comply with deactivation requests only during the normal l workir.g hours of 8:00 AM to 5:00 P:! cf the S day work week.

Only two A-level personnel possess items (2) and (3). The Di- i rector of the Laboratory appoints these two individuals from among the five i A-level keyholders exclusive of himself and the Reactor Supervisor.

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k Access to the safe containing the reactor fuel requires (1) access to the room, (2) knowledge of the combination to the safe, and a key to the safe. The two individuals having access to the room also possess the combination (but not the key) to the safe. The Director and the Reactor Supervisor possess the only keys to the safe. Accordingly, access to the safe requires the mutual consent of at least two distinct individuals, each possessing part of the total access requirement.

C. Surveillance

1. Working Hours There are two separate alarm systems and each alarm system can be deactivated only by specified individuals. All A-level personnel are authori:ed to deactivate the alarm system'of the reactor high bay by tele-phoning the University Police Department, stating his name, waiting for recognition and permission, and then properly deactivating the system at the master control unit. ilhile the system is deactivated, the surveillance is done by the working personnel holding A-level keys and by students and ,

faculty who are in the facility. All A-level personnel are authori:cd to  ;

reactivate the system by first telephoning the University Police Department, stating his name and intention, reactivating the alarm system at the master i control unit, and then again telephoning the University Police Department to see if the alarm system has cleared and that the system is functioning properly.

Two individuals appointed by the Director of the Laboratory are authori:ed to deactivate the alarm system of the radioactive storage room.

Their names and an entry code are on file with the UCLA Police Department.

Legal entry can only be effected between the hours of 0500 and 1700 on university working days. Tne nomal sequence of events for entry into the radioactive storage room is for one of the above two individuals to call the police, wait for recognition, state his name, his intent, and the entry code. Upon recognition, he estimates the probable duration of the entry. i Upon entry, he deactivates the alarm at the master control. Upon departure, he reactivates the alarm, secures the door, calls the police department, gives his name, states that the area is secured, and asks for confirmation of the alam system reactivation and condition of non-alam. This alarm system is rarely deactivated, but when it is, at least one of the authori:ed l individuals will remain in this room during the entire period. Normally, l this alarm system is kept on and surveillance of this area is accomplished by the working personnel, the lock and key system and the ultrasonic alarm system. Backing up these systems are the UCLA Police Department and the West Los Angeles Police Department.

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2. Non-Gorking Hours l l

During non-working hours, the lock, key system and the alarm systen I provide the surveillance of the security areas. A special foot patrol also l offers ate surveillance between the hours of 1630 and 0130. His rounds are such that he can see and check the outer doors of the facility at least once every one and one-half hours. The UCLA Police Department and the West Los Angeles Police Department back up these systems.

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D. Procedures l

1. Response to Detected Unauthori:cd Intrusions l

The silent alarm sends a signal via the isolated telephone line j to the L'CLA Police Station. The signal registers on the 24 hour2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> on-site j manned Honeywell Alarn acceiver. . Notification is then sent via too-way radio for two units to converge immediately on this facility to take the appropriate action. Since the police have portable radios, a minimum of l three other units would be able to respond to the alarn if the situation warranted it. In case the prob 1cm is too great for them to handle, the UCLA Police Department could call as a back up, the West Los Angeles Police  ?

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2. Security Violations by Authori:ed Personnel For the Reactor High Say, there are no provisions for security violations by authori:cd personne.) other than proper screening during hiring.

However, the SNM is of the exempt form, being highly radioactive, if anyone were to renove this material from the high bay, ae would need time and would risk receiving a lethal dose of radiation in. removing the caterial from the -

facility.

The Radioactive storage area can be entered only by the individuals tentioned previously. Eatry is impossible during non-working hours. If entry is atteupted, the police will assume that the entry was unauthori:ed, and will take appropriate action. A security violation (entry) is linited to two individuals and a security violation involving the safe would require a minimum of two individuals acting in concert.

3. Bomb Threats In the event of a bonb threat, the laboratory would be secured and evacuated. The standard energency procedures would be followed. The eter-gency procedures are given on page 15 of Appendix A.

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e t 4. Acts of Civil Disorder For acts of civil disorder, the emergency procedures would be followed.

F, Security Program Review The security program will be reviewed and tested every twelve months '

by the Laboratory Security Officer. He will also conduct a key inventory on a semi-annual basis.

We hope that this security plan meets with your approval.

Sincerely, Wa% ~ .Ifn William E. Kastenberg Acting Director Nuclear Energy Laboratory WEK:CEA: ,NCO:v1 .

Enclosures:

Appendix A j Appendix B

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