MPC&A Operations Monitoring System (MOM) Implementation at Public Corporation “Production Association “Sevmash”

The Material Protection, Control and Accounting (MPC&A) Program has been working in close cooperation with Russian nuclear sites since 1994 to upgrade physical protection systems as well as enhance nuclear material control and accounting (MC&A) functions at those sites with weapon grade nuclear materials. At the beginning of 2001, within the framework of the MPC&A Program, the MPC&A Operations Monitoring (MOM) Project was initiated. The main objective of the MOM Project was to monitor those sites where the MPC&A systems had been upgraded to ensure that the facility personnel were vigilant and present at their work places, the security procedures were being followed, and to provide additional assurance that nuclear material was not stolen or diverted. The MOM Project started as a pilot installation at the Moscow State Engineering and Physics Institute (MEPhI) where the MOM system was successfully installed in October of 2001. Following the successful realization of the pilot project at MEPhI the installation of MOM systems within the framework of the MPC&A Program expanded to other Russian sites including the Public Corporation (PC) “Production Association (PA) “Sevmash” in Severodvinsk, Russia. The MOM system was installed at PC “PA “Sevmash” in September 2008.