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5 The Importance of People in Securing Civilian Nuclear Facilities
5 The Importance of People in Securing Civilian Nuclear Facilities
Pages 89-104
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Unless we update ourselves, unless the security forces, the response forces, the guard forces, and the security operators update themselves with the current threat scenarios, with current practices, with current systems, and techniques used, and also with required regulatory proce dures or other requirements, it will not be possible to maintain proper and effective nuclear security. Promising Topics for Collaboration Arising from the Presentations and Discussions These promising topics for collaboration arising from the presentations and discussions are not those representing the consensus of the participants, but are rather a selection of those topics offered by individual participants throughout the presentations and discussions.
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Physical protection security (PPS) technologies -- hardware, detection, access control, assessment, surveillance and other technologies -- must be backed by appropriate security policies and procedures (see Figure 5-1)
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A personnel reliability program is a program in which one looks at the social background or the societal aspects of a person; how he is living, how his behaviors are changing. Several studies address these issues that go beyond science and technology issues.
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b. Training Focus: Risk assessment a stuudies, emergenncy planning aand managem ment, sustainabiility parameter assessment, diifferent aspects of safety, seecurity, and proliferation resistance, evaluuation of perfo for mance ind dicators and saafety, security aand proliferatioon resistance, reeg ulatory prrocess, safety culture, radiatioon protection, annd nuclear law.
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Objective: to promote research and development (R&D) activities for evolving new methodologies to detect and ascertain the causes for un accounted losses of nuclear materials on a timely basis; to establish a teaching and training facility for the effective implementation of safe guards including nuclear material accounting and control (MC&A)
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The goals of the school are to: affect the assessment of radioactivity releases integrated with geographical information systems with nationwide radius and background mapping; ensure the safety of radioactive nuclear material; address emergency preparedness and response, medical management of radiation emergencies, and conduct fixed field exercises on radiological safety, and emergency response. Specifically, different program modules (formal education)
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Similarly, import and export agencies, frontline officers such as customs officers, and radiation safety officers of nuclear facilities, medical institutes, industry, and researchers. Kumar noted that they are trying to extend these courses as far as possible, including to the universities under the Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBN1)
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Industrial Radiography Testing Level-II 15 days RT-I and 36 months of work experience 12. Radiation Safety Aspects for RSO in Radiation Processing Facilities 3 months Degree in Science 13.
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India contributes significantly to the IAEA on issues related to nuclear materials security, and the new Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership will take this farther by providing training to people in India and around the world. Training on Nuclear Materials Security: A U.S.
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In addition to that training, they offer a full complement of training on the core elements of security within the DOE complex, such as classes on vulnerability assessments, physical protection, protective force, personnel security, and what is called the survey, analogous to the inspection programs -- a local DOE office would conduct a survey whereas headquarters might conduct an inspection, and the site would conduct a self-assessment. They are all analogous and follow the same methodologies.
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Some entry level courses are designed to create an awareness and understanding of the nuclear field for people who do not necessarily work in MC&A, but who need to understand nuclear materials and some of the associated concepts. Overall, in DOE, there is a systematic approach to training and that permeates through all of the domestic as well as the international work.
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There could be a composite number of students, either from the United States or from the other country, but it can be done in any number of ways. Examples of training cooperation from the past few decades include those on VAs, insider analysis, nuclear material monitors, secure transportation, configuration management, physical protection systems, physical protection system performance testing, protective force performance testing, inspections, and security culture.
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A workshop participant noted that "seismic monitoring" was listed as part of the security module. What is the relevance of this topic?
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A participant asked whether CISF is largely responsible for the physical protection of the nuclear facilities in India. Kumar replied that most of India's civilian nuclear facilities are guarded by Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)
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A workshop participant responded to the comment about CISF security. First, 90 percent of security at nuclear establishments is no different from any other sensitive industrial installation.
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