Year
2004
Abstract
Security programs at Russian nuclear sites are committing considerable resources for rapid and comprehensive nuclear material protection, control, and accounting (MPC&A) to improve their MPC&A infrastructure. The Sverdlovsk-44 (S-44) site in the Ural region of Russia is one such MPC&A site that is rapidly implementing comprehensive MPC&A upgrades where all comprehensive upgrades are scheduled to be completed in fiscal year 2004. Starting fiscal year 2005, S-44 will be placed under sustainability. This paper discusses sustainability requirements for S-44 that are consistent with the new MPC&A system design. A sustainability implementation template developed specifically for S-44 is presented that allows for systematic implementation of sustainability principles. The implementation approach that is presented is consistent with operations and sustainability guidelines and site transition guidelines documents being updated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). S-44 sustainability plans ensure the development of an integrated system of activities, systems, programs, facilities, and policies for the protection of special nuclear material (SNM) at the site and also ensure that its MPC&A systems are operated and maintained to the standards at which they were designed to achieve benefits (e.g., improved protection, reduced risk). The S-44 MPC&A system sustainability plan provides for the supporting activities of MPC&A systems and maps them into the guidelines’ sustainability elements—organization, configuration control, training, performance metrics, critical processes, maintenance, and life cycle cost. The approach for sustainability implementation discussed in this paper provides for a systemsfocused, standards-based, and consistent sustainability infrastructure for S-44. With very little modification, a generalized sustainability implementation template derived from the S-44