Inspection Methods for Safeguards Systems at Nuclear Facilities

A project team at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has been developing inspection procedures and training materials for the NRC inspectors of safeguards systems at licensed nuclear facilities. This paper describes 1) procedures developed for inspecting for compliance with the Code of Federal Regulations, 2) training materials for safeguards inspectors on technical topics related to safeguards systems, such as computer surety, alarm systems, sampling techniques, and power supplies, and 3) an inspector-oriented methodology for evaluating the overall effectiveness of safeguards systems.