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Overview of the Hanford Site Performance Assurance Program

Conference · · Nuclear Materials Management. Annual Meeting Proceedings; (United States)
OSTI ID:5592729
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  1. Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA (United States)
This paper reports on a safeguards and security performance assurance program which encompasses the routine and special activities carried out to assure that safeguards and security subsystems and components are operating in a effective and reliable manner. At the Hanford Site, performance assurance involves widely varied activities, e.g., force-on-force exercises, functional testing of security components, and limited scope performance testing of material control and accountability subsystems. These activities belong to one of four categories: performance testing, functional testing, inspection, and preventive maintenance. Using categories has aided in identifying and assessing the relevant contribution each activity makes to the performance assurance program. Efforts have progressed toward incorporating performance assurance activities into the assessment of protection effectiveness required for Master Safeguards and Security Agreement development and its associated verification and validation process.
OSTI ID:
5592729
Report Number(s):
CONF-910774--
Conference Information:
Journal Name: Nuclear Materials Management. Annual Meeting Proceedings; (United States) Journal Volume: 20
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English