Year
1986
Abstract
Safeguards for LWRs are based on annual inventory verifications, supplemented by surveillance cameras to verify that there have been no unreported changes in the inventory. Interim inspections at three-month intervals are primarily to recover camera records. A modification of the surveillance equipment and procedures is suggested whereby surveillance records could be sent by the operator to the IAEA at scheduled times. If the records indicated no spent-fuel shipments, the three- .Tionth interval between inspections could be extended. It is estimated that about threefourths of the interim inspections could thereby be eliminated without compromising present inspection criteria in any way.