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Title: Safeguards and Security by Design (SSBD) for Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) through a Common Global Approach

Abstract

Small Modular Reactors (SMR) with power levels significantly less than the currently standard 1000 to 1600-MWe reactors have been proposed as a potential game changer for future nuclear power. SMRs may offer a simpler, more standardized, and safer modular design by using factory built and easily transportable components. Additionally, SMRs may be more easily built and operated in isolated locations, and may require smaller initial capital investment and shorter construction times. Because many SMRs designs are still conceptual and consequently not yet fixed, designers have a unique opportunity to incorporate updated design basis threats, emergency preparedness requirements, and then fully integrate safety, physical security, and safeguards/material control and accounting (MC&A) designs. Integrating safety, physical security, and safeguards is often referred to as integrating the 3Ss, and early consideration of safeguards and security in the design is often referred to as safeguards and security by design (SSBD). This paper describes U.S./Russian collaborative efforts toward developing an internationally accepted common approach for implementing SSBD/3Ss for SMRs based upon domestic requirements, and international guidance and requirements. These collaborative efforts originated with the Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Security working group established under the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission during the 2009 Presidential Summit. Initial effortsmore » have focused on review of U.S. and Russian domestic requirements for Security and MC&A, IAEA guidance for security and MC&A, and IAEA requirements for international safeguards. Additionally, example SMR design features that can enhance proliferation resistance and physical security have been collected from past work and reported here. The development of a U.S./Russian common approach for SSBD/3Ss should aid the designer of SMRs located anywhere in the world. More specifically, the application of this approach may lead to more proliferation resistant and physically secure design features for SMRs.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [2]
  1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  2. Obninsk Institute of Physics and Power Engineering (Russian Federation)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
OSTI Identifier:
1170624
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-14-26422
TRN: US1600053
DOE Contract Number:  
AC52-06NA25396
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: IAEA Symposium on International Safeguards, Vienna (Austria), 20 Oct 2014
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; 98 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS, AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION; DESIGN; SECURITY; IAEA SAFEGUARDS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; USA; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; REACTORS; PROLIFERATION; SAFETY; ACCOUNTING; CONTROL; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; POWER RANGE 100-1000 MW; DESIGN BASIS ACCIDENTS

Citation Formats

Badwan, Faris M., Demuth, Scott Francis, Miller, Michael Conrad, and Pshakin, Gennady. Safeguards and Security by Design (SSBD) for Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) through a Common Global Approach. United States: N. p., 2015. Web.
Badwan, Faris M., Demuth, Scott Francis, Miller, Michael Conrad, & Pshakin, Gennady. Safeguards and Security by Design (SSBD) for Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) through a Common Global Approach. United States.
Badwan, Faris M., Demuth, Scott Francis, Miller, Michael Conrad, and Pshakin, Gennady. 2015. "Safeguards and Security by Design (SSBD) for Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) through a Common Global Approach". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1170624.
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title = {Safeguards and Security by Design (SSBD) for Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) through a Common Global Approach},
author = {Badwan, Faris M. and Demuth, Scott Francis and Miller, Michael Conrad and Pshakin, Gennady},
abstractNote = {Small Modular Reactors (SMR) with power levels significantly less than the currently standard 1000 to 1600-MWe reactors have been proposed as a potential game changer for future nuclear power. SMRs may offer a simpler, more standardized, and safer modular design by using factory built and easily transportable components. Additionally, SMRs may be more easily built and operated in isolated locations, and may require smaller initial capital investment and shorter construction times. Because many SMRs designs are still conceptual and consequently not yet fixed, designers have a unique opportunity to incorporate updated design basis threats, emergency preparedness requirements, and then fully integrate safety, physical security, and safeguards/material control and accounting (MC&A) designs. Integrating safety, physical security, and safeguards is often referred to as integrating the 3Ss, and early consideration of safeguards and security in the design is often referred to as safeguards and security by design (SSBD). This paper describes U.S./Russian collaborative efforts toward developing an internationally accepted common approach for implementing SSBD/3Ss for SMRs based upon domestic requirements, and international guidance and requirements. These collaborative efforts originated with the Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Security working group established under the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission during the 2009 Presidential Summit. Initial efforts have focused on review of U.S. and Russian domestic requirements for Security and MC&A, IAEA guidance for security and MC&A, and IAEA requirements for international safeguards. Additionally, example SMR design features that can enhance proliferation resistance and physical security have been collected from past work and reported here. The development of a U.S./Russian common approach for SSBD/3Ss should aid the designer of SMRs located anywhere in the world. More specifically, the application of this approach may lead to more proliferation resistant and physically secure design features for SMRs.},
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year = {Mon Feb 23 00:00:00 EST 2015},
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