Trial Application of the Facility Safeguardability Assessment Process to the NuScale SMR Design

Technical Report · Sat Jan 26 00:00:00 EST 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1063729· OSTI ID:1063729

Coles, Garill A; Hockert, John; Gitau, Ernest TN; Zentner, Michael D

FSA is a screening process intended to focus a facility designer’s attention on the aspects of their facility or process design that would most benefit from application of SBD principles and practices. The process is meant to identify the most relevant guidance within the SBD tools for enhancing the safeguardability of the design. In fiscal year (FY) 2012, NNSA sponsored PNNL to evaluate the practical application of FSA by applying it to the NuScale small modular nuclear power plant. This report documents the application of the FSA process, presenting conclusions regarding its efficiency and robustness. It describes the NuScale safeguards design concept and presents functional "infrastructure" guidelines that were developed using the FSA process.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 1063729
• Report Number(s): PNNL-22000 Rev. 1; NN4009010
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English