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Security Considerations for Threats of Sabotage v. Theft
Where does your reactor design fit?
If adequate assurance is evident that reactor features are designed to protect against a radiological released of 25 rem, regulators can exempt the facility from design basis threat (DBT) performance
Sabotage
Focus on containment and minimizing the release of radiological material
Theft
With new fuel cycles and the decommissioning of plants, security centered around safeguarding nuclear material
can increase the plants safety
Focus on delay features to allow time for interdiction and neutralization while limiting the number of access points
Outside vital areas, delay features such as foaming material, slippery agents, and sudsy material can be deployed
Mantrap areas can be designed around special nuclear material (SNM) that is of risk of proliferation
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