US/RUSSIAN COOPERATIVE EFFORTS IN NUCLEAR MATERIAL PROTECTION, CONTROL, AND ACCOUNTING AT THE SIBERIAN CHEMICAL COMBINE

Year
1998
Author(s)
Leslie G. Fishbone - Brookhaven National Laboratory
William M. Buckley - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Victor L. Petrushev - SKhK,
J. H. Jarrett - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Igor Goloskokov - Siberian Chemical Combine
Michael Bonner - Brookhaven National Laboratory
R.E. Morgado - Los Alamos National Laboratory
William J. Toth - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
R. Bruce Berry - Sandia National Laboratories
A. Yarygin - Siberian Chemical Combine
R. Logsdon - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
R. Copp - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Abstract
The Siberian Chemical Combine (SKhK) is the largest multi-function nuclear production center facility in the Russian nuclear complex. Until complex and, until recently, it produced and processed special nuclear material s for the Russian Defense Ministry. SKhK and its US partners in the Department of Energy (DOE) US/Russian Materials Protection, Control, and Accountability (MPC&A) Program are nearing completion of the initial MPC&A upgrades at the six SKhK plant sites that were begun three years ago. Comprehensive enhancements to the physical protection and access control systems are now moving forwardprogressing on a site-wide basis while a comprehensive MC&A system is being implemented at the Radiochemical Plant site. SKhK now produces thermal and electrical power, enriches uranium for commercial reactor fuel, reprocesses irradiated fuel, converts highly- enriched uranium metal into high-enriched oxide for blending into low-enriched reactor-grade, low-enriched uranium, and manufactures civilian products. This paperWe will review the progress to date and outline ours plans for continuing the work in 1999.