Introduction of Physical Protection Corrective Action Program in JAEA

In the nuclear security are, JAEA investigated a corrective action program for physical protection called“PPCAP”, and newly introduced it for relevant sites and headquarters since September 2019. The PPCAP activity is conducted as a responsibility of PP manager of each site in accordance with the regulation (periodically reviewed). Those activities are confirmed by the state authority during the periodical inspection. JAEA conducts the PPCAP as following steps. 1) Manager collects observation/assessment report with any noticing with nonconformity, improvement, good practice, inspection result and internal assessment result. Those reports are commonly used with Safety and Safeguards in a part of sites at the viewpoint of 3S engagement. 2) Distinguish whether emergency or not, if so, countermeasure applies against any degradation of the performance as soon as possible. 3) Assessing organization reviews each report with a specified timeframe, and decides the grade by importance, comments, and countermeasures, and the action plan. 4) Manager resolves the issues based on the review result. To use each PPCAP result for resolving own issues as a reference, each report is allowed us to use the records in centralized server under information control. After the introduction of PPCAP, more than 3500 reports were submitted and resolved, and they contribute to keep the high-performance level of physical protection of each facility. Thus, it is thought that this PPCAP activity is not only noticing or mitigating the risk of sabotage and unauthorized removal, but also the viewpoint of nuclear security culture promotion to understand and share the risks and good practices of nuclear security.