DOMESTIC SAFEGUARDS CONCEPTS FOR THE ACTINIDE PACKAGING AND STORAGE FACILITY AT SAVANNAH RIVER SITE (U)

The scope and initial planning for the Actinide Packaging and Storage Facility (APSF) included planning designed to incorporate domestic safeguards concepts very early in the planning phase. This decision to involve and seek input on domestic safeguards issues at the very earliest stages of conceptual designs provides for a more complete package during the initial design phases. This paper will address some of the benefits from early involvement, including some of the conceptual design features, black box approach, lessons learned, interfacing of domestic and international requirements to minimize design impacts and costs, and technical exchanges that occurred. The technical exchanges assist in determining cost effective methods of implementing the specific design requirements and incorporating domestic and international requirements reduces the amount of redundancy required in the final system by using systems to provide both domestic and international requirements. Some examples where common systems may be used are tamper indicating devices (TID’s), integration of surveillance systems, dual use of measurement instrumentation, creating joint standards for equipment calibration, and concurrent scheduling of physical inventories to reduce exposure and manpower requirements.