A MATERIAL CONTROL ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE

Year
1977
Author(s)
R.W. Adams - Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
L.R. Spogen - Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
Abstract
The material control system assessment procedure being developed by the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission fs reviewed. It consists of five major sections: Target Identification, Adversary Sequence and Simuli Generation, Material Control System Response Determination, Safeguard System Outcome Determination, and Safeguard System Utility Determination. When adopted, this procedure will reduce safeguards licensing problems by providing compatibility with future performance based regulations, explicit evaluation rules and requirements, well-defined trade-off structures, and useroriented and systematic evaluation and design tools.