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Achieving the Benefits of Safeguards by Design

Description: The overarching driver for developing a formalized process to achieve safeguards by design is to support the global growth of nuclear power while reducing ‘nuclear security’ risks. This paper discusses an institutional approach to the design process for a nuclear facility, for designing proliferation resistance, international safeguards and U.S. national safeguards and security into new nuclear facilities. In the United States, the need exists to develop a simple, concise, formalized, and integ… more
Date: July 1, 2008
Creator: Bjornard, Trond; Bean, Robert; Hebditch, David; Morgan, Jim; Meppen, Bruce; DeMuth, Scott et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Implementing Safeguards-by-Design

Description: Executive Summary Excerpt Safeguards-by-Design (SBD) is an approach to the design and construction of nuclear facilities whereby safeguards are designed-in from the very beginning. It is a systematic and structured approach for fully integrating international and national safeguards (MC&A), physical security, and other proliferation barriers into the design and construction process for nuclear facilities. SBD is primarily a project management or project coordination challenge, and this report f… more
Date: February 1, 2010
Creator: Bjornard, Trond; Bean, Robert; Durst, Phillip Casey; Hockert, John & Morgan, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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