BUILDING AN INFRASTRUCTURE TO SUPPORT THE HUMAN AND EQUIPMENT ELEMENTS OF RUSSIAN MPC&A SYSTEMS

The supporting infrastructure necessary to sustain effective Material Protection Control and Accountability (MPC&A) systems must provide accessible and sufficient resources to maintain human and equipment system components over a long period of time. Infrastructure can also provide important incentives, consistency, standards, requirements, and expectations that help to enable and empower sites to operate and maintain safeguards and security systems long after US supported upgrade activities have been completed. This paper will describe the infrastructure elements at the national level and in the 3 primary regions of Russia: Central, Siberian, and Urals. It will explain the hierarchical nature of the infrastructure, the recipients of infrastructure support, the organizational and functional design of the regional Centers, and give some examples of how infrastructure is serving the needs of nuclear sites in Russia. Finally, the vision for the future of Russian infrastructure initiatives will be described.