Year
2011
Abstract
The Ural Electrochemical Integrated Plant (UEIP), located in Novouralsk, Russia, has cooperated with the US Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (US DOE/NNSA) Material Protection Control and Accounting (MPC&A) Program since 1996 on nuclear material (NM) security upgrades. Since the commissioning of the upgraded site in 2004, UEIP has been working on a comprehensive sustainability program (SP) that includes establishing a site sustainability working group (SSWG), information gathering, planning, organizing, developing schedule and cost estimates, implementation of sustainability contracts between UEIP and a US DOE National Laboratory, development and implementation of a transition plan towards fully Russian funded MPC&A systems. On-going analysis of MPC&A element status is performed to develop the path to SP implementation at the Plant. Sustainability planning (development of tasks, resources, task schedules, cost estimates and justification, and analysis of sustainability elements), monitoring, and control of the work scopes (task orders, work breakdown structure, work scope analysis) are accomplished using tools such as Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project, and Astrosoft Resource Management. The SSWG provides data exchange between the SP and the US Project Team (USPT) through monthly deliverables and periodic US Project Team site assurance visits, ensuring the appropriate use of the US funding throughout the upgrade process. The development of a comprehensive Site SP aims at the transfer to fully Russian-supported funding of MPC&A systems. Currently, UEIP is gaining further experience through the pilot project named “Enhancing MPC&A at JSC UEIP till 2016,” which is currently underway as a part of management and planning development in Rosatom. The Site SP advances the Transition Plan implementation towards full scale funding of MPC&A systems by the Russian side, ultimately enhancing NM security and safety