GUARD TACTICS SIMULATION

The Guard Tactics Simulation is a site specific map board exercise that is applicable to the study of fuel cycle facility safeguards procedures and is useful as a guard force training technique. The purpose of this simulation is to depict plausible adversary vs. safeguards situations which will stimulate guard discussion and exchange of ideas about defense tactics. While it is impossible to postulate actual guard and adversary confrontations, the simulation does capture the significant elements of guard force and adversary maneuvers and timing to permit an evaluation of likely outcomes as a result of choices made by the players. The simulation uses simple rules and guidelines which permit flexibility and creativity in guard tactical response to a wide range of adversary strategies. Two players are involved, each with his own board shielded from his opponent, and a referee who can observe both boards and determine permissible moves. Each player's board shows exactly the information which he would know at that time, i.e., his own men (under his command/control) and those of his opponent that have been detected in some way. A time-to-move clock imposes realistic constraints on decision making by both players. For the purpose of this presentation an unclassified hypothetical facility is used in place of an actual facility to avoid disclosing classified information. This hypothetical facility was constructed by MERADCOM as part of recent work done for the NRC and represents a credible depiction of a typical nuclear fuel cycle facility. It is not exact in any specific way but is a reasonable approximation and supports an explanation of the simulation.