Year
1978
Abstract
Concern over the security of nuclear facilities has generated the need for a reliable, time efficient, and easily applied method of evaluating the effectiveness of a safeguards system. Such an evaluation technique could be used by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to evaluate licensee proposals, to assess the security status of a system, or to design and up- grade nuclear facilities. An objective physical protection system evaluation and design methodology should include the perspective of both the NRC and the licensee. From the NRC perspective, this methodology should provide a basis for decisions related to the development of regulations or policies. In addition, the methodology could supplement the rationale for a particular regulation and pro- vide a systematic method to make and explain decisions related to compliance with regulations. Alternately, from the licensees' perspective, the evaluation methodology could be used to provide a consistent measurement of the performance of their safeguards systems and a design technique which would allow decisions to be made relative to compliance with regulations or for the up- grading of their physical protection systems.