DOMESTIC SAFEGUARDS SYSTEM EFFECTIVENESS SURVEY RESULTS

During the 2008 Institute of Nuclear Materials Management Annual Meeting, a web-based survey was conducted to elicit the opinions of attendees regarding the relative importance (in the form of utility coefficients) for a variety of domestic safeguards measures. The coefficients from the survey were used in a safeguards effectiveness model. These values populated the model and provided an example of a utility methodology that determines effectiveness of a simple domestic safeguards system using Type I and Type II errors of the individual safeguards measures as input variables. This model and methodology provide a repeatable and quantifiable measure for any system, in this case, for a simple safeguards system. The survey results are presented and discussed.