GUIDELINES FOR PREPARING IAEA DESIGN INFORMATION QUESTIONNAIRES

SAI under contract to BNL/TSO has developed guidelines for preparing IAEA Design Information Questionnaires (DIQs). These guidelines may be useful to U.S. nuclear facilities that will be subject to international safeguards. The guidelines give an explanation of what information the IAEA is requesting, a statement of the use to which the IAEA will direct the information, and a model format that the response should take. Separate guidelines have been prepared for DIQs on power and research reactors,(1,2) conversion and/or fuel fabrication pi ants,(3) reprocessing pi ants,(4) critical or sub-critical facil ities,(5) and separate storage facilities.(6) As well as a technical working tool, the guidelines also provide the facility operator with sufficient information to estimate the level of effort required to complete the DIQ.