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IMPLEMENTING THE SAFEGUARDS-BY-DESIGN PROCESS

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OSTI ID:988722
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  1. ORNL
  2. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
  3. Innovative Solutions
  4. Idaho National Laboratory (INL)
  5. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
  6. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
  7. U.S. Department of Energy, NNSA
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The Safeguards-by-Design (SBD) approach incorporates safeguards into the design and construction of nuclear facilities at the very beginning of the design process. It is a systematic and structured approach for fully integrating international and national safeguards for material control and accountability (MC&A), physical protection, and other proliferation barriers into the design and construction process for nuclear facilities. Implementing SBD is primarily a project management or project coordination challenge. This paper focuses specifically on the design process; the planning, definition, organization, coordination, scheduling and interaction of the safeguards experts and stakeholders as they participate in the design and construction of a nuclear facility. It delineates the steps in a nuclear facility design and construction project in order to provide the project context within which the safeguards design activities take place, describes the involvement of the safeguards experts in the design process, the nature of their analyses, interactions and decisions, and describes the documents created and how they are used. This report highlights the project context of safeguards activities, and identifies the safeguards community (nuclear facility operator, designer/builder, state regulator, SSAC and IAEA) must accomplish in order to implement SBD within the project.
Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Sponsoring Organization:
NNSA USDOE - National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725
OSTI ID:
988722
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Related Subjects

11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
CONSTRUCTION
DESIGN
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
NUCLEAR MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
PHYSICAL PROTECTION
PLANNING
SAFEGUARDS