Coordination Between the HEU Transparency Program and the Material Protection, Control and Accountability Program

Year
2000
Author(s)
David Dougherty - Brookhaven National Laboratory
Andrew J. Bieniawski - Us. Department of Energy
Edward Mastal - U.S. Department of Energy
P.T. Cahalane - Department of Energy NN-50
Joseph Glaser - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
J. Hernandez - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Abstract
DOE sponsored programs such as Material Protection Control and Accountability (MPC&A) and implementation of the Highly-Enriched Uranium (HEU) Transparency Program send US personnel into Russian nuclear facilities and receive Russian representatives from these programs. While there is overlap in the Russian nuclear facilities visited by these two programs, there had not been any formal mechanism to share information between them. Recently, an MPC&A/HEU Working Group was developed to facilitate the sharing of appropriate information and to address concerns expressed by MinAtom and Russian facility personnel such as US visit scheduling conflicts. This paper discusses the goals of the Working Group and ways it has helped to allow the programs to work more efficiently with the Russian facilities.