MATERIAL PROTECTION, CONTROL AND ACCOUNTING COOPERATION AT THE URALS ELECTROCHEMICAL INTEGRATED PLANT (UEIP), NOVOURALSK, RUSSIA1

Year
1998
Author(s)
Scott McAllister - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Mac Forehand - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Lonnie Moore - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Michael Carroll - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Michael Ford - Sandia National Laboratory
John DeMeyer - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Abstract
The Urals Electrochemical Integrated Plant is one of the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy‘s nuclear material production sites participating in the US Department of Energy’s Material Protection, Control and Accounting (MPC&A) Program. The Urals Electrochemical Integrated Plant is Russia’s largest uranium enrichment facility and blends tons of high-enriched uranium into low enriched uranium each year as part of the US high-enriched uranium purchase. The Electrochemical Integrated Plant and six participating national laboratories are cooperating to implement a series of enhancements to the nuclear material protection, control, and accountability systems at the site. This paper outlines the overall objectives of the MPC&A program at Urals Electrochemical Integrated Plant and the work completed as of the date of the presentation.