Spent Nuclear Fuel Transportation Risk Assessment Methodology for Homeland Security

Conference · Sat Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 2006

OSTI ID:20997004

Teagarden, Grant A ^[1]; Canavan, Kenneth T ^[2]; Nickell, Robert E ^[3]

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1. ERIN Engineering and Research (United States)
2. Electric Power Research Institute - EPRI, 3420 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94304 (United States)
3. Applied Science and Technology, Poway, CA 92064 (United States)

In response to increased interest in risk-informed decision making regarding terrorism, EPRI was selected by U.S. DHS and ASME to develop and demonstrate a nuclear sector specific methodology for owner / operators to utilize in performing a Risk Analysis and Management for Critical Asset Protection (RAMCAP) assessment for the transportation of spent nuclear fuel (SNF). The objective is to characterize SNF transportation risk for risk management opportunities and to provide consistent information for DHS decision making. The method uses a characterization of risk as a function of Consequence, Vulnerability, and Threat. Worst reasonable case scenarios characterize risk for a benchmark set of threats and consequence types. A trial application was successfully performed and implementation is underway by one utility. (authors)

• Research Organization: The ASME Foundation, Inc., Three Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016-5990 (United States)
• OSTI ID: 20997004
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS
BENCHMARKS
DECISION MAKING
EPRI
HAZARDS
IMPLEMENTATION
INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT
RISK ASSESSMENT
SAFETY
SECURITY
SPENT FUELS
VULNERABILITY