MPC&A Enhancements for the Murmansk Shipping Company Icebreaker Fleet

Year
1999
Author(s)
Michael O’Brien - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Byron Gardner - Sandia National Laboratories
Mac Forehand - Los Alamos National Laboratory
David Caskey - Sandia National Laboratories
Nikolai Bondarev - Kurchatov Institute
G. Tittemore - U.S. Department of Energy, NN-40
V. Maltsev - Murmansk Shipping Company
David Lambert - Lockheed Matin Energy Systems
Abstract
The United States and the Russian Federation entered into a cooperative agreement in 1994 that resulted in a nuclear weapons non-proliferation program within the United States (US) Department of Energy (DOE) currently known as the Russia/Newly Independent States (NIS) Nuclear Material Security Task Force. In 1996, a project was initiated with the Murmansk Shipping Company to enhance material protection, control, and accounting of highly enriched nuclear fuel assemblies used for the Icebreaker Fleet. The commissioning ceremony for this project is scheduled for August 1999. This paper describes the physical protection, material control, and accounting measures implemented for the Icebreaker Fleet.