Safeguards effectiveness evaluations in safeguards planning

Conference · Thu Dec 03 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:5168263

Al-Ayat, R A

This paper describes analytic tools we developed to quantify the effectiveness of safeguards against theft of special nuclear material by insiders. These tools help identify vulnerabilities in existing safeguards, suggest potential improvements, and help assess the benefits of these upgrades prior to implementation. Alone, these tools are not sufficient for safeguards planning, since the cost of implementing all suggested upgrades almost always exceeds the available resources. This paper describes another tool we developed to allow comparsion of benefits of various upgrades to identify those upgrade packages that achieve the greatest improvement in protection for a given cost and to provide a priority ranking among cost-effective packages, thereby helping decision-makers select the upgrades to implement and highlight the mount of residual risk. 5 refs., 3 figs.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 5168263
• Report Number(s): UCRL-97741; CONF-8711108-4; ON: DE88008677
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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055000* -- Nuclear Fuels-- Safeguards
Inspection
& Accountability
98 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS, AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION
ANALYTICAL SOLUTION
COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS
CRIME
DECISION MAKING
EVALUATION
MANAGEMENT
MINIMIZATION
NUCLEAR MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
OPTIMIZATION
PLANNING
SAFEGUARDS
THEFT
VULNERABILITY