UWRUSSIAN LABORATORY-TO-LABORATORY PROGRAM IN MATERIALS PROTECTION, CONTROL AND ACCOUNTING AT THE RRC KURCHATOV INSTITUTE

Year
1996
Author(s)
John Smoot - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Leslie G. Fishbone - Brookhaven National Laboratory
B. Siskind - Brookhaven National Laboratory
James D. Williams - Sandia National Laboratories
Vladimir Sukhoruchkin - Kurchatov Institute
J.E. Stewart - Los Alarnos National Laboratory
Rena Whiteson - Los Alarnos National Laboratory
P. Singh - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Bradley Weil - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
John A. Blasy - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Wayne Ruhter - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
V.M. Shmelev - Kurchatov Institute
A.N. Roumiantsev - Kurchatov Institute
James R. Griggs - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
L.E. Predika - Sandia National Laboratories
Sergei Antipov - Kurchatov Institute
S. Peter Gary - Los Alamos National Laborator
Susan Voss - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Rob York - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Abstract
Six US Department of Energy Laboratories are carrying out a program of cooperation with the Russian Research Center Kurchatov Institute to improve nuclear material protection, control and accounting (MPC&A) at the Institute. In 1995 the primary emphasis of this program was the implementation of improved physical protection at a demonstration building at Kurchatov, and the upgrading of the computerized materials accounting system, measurement instrumentation, and physical inventory procedures for a critical assembly within this building. Work continues in 1996 at this building but now also has begun at the two Kurchatov buildings which constitute the Central Storage Facility. At this facility, there will be upgrades in the physical inventory taking procedures, a test and evaluation of gamma-ray isotopic measurements, and evaluations of nuclear material portal monitors and neutronbased measurement equipment. There will also be implementation of an improved computerized materials accounting system which will include bar code printing and reading equipment, development of a tamper indicating device program, and substantial improvements in physical protection. Finally, vulnerability assessments begun in 1995 are behg extended to additional high priority facilities at Kurchatov.