Abstract
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory is developing an assessment procedure to evaluate the effectiveness of a potential nuclear facility licensee’s material control (MC) system. The purpose of an MC system is to prevent the theft of special nuclear material such as plutonium and highly enriched uranium. The key in the assessment procedure is the generation and analysis of the adversary event sets by a directed graph and fault-tree methodology. The methodology is described step-by-step and its application illustrated by an example.
This report was prepared for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research under research order No. 66- 77-012 and under the auspices of the U.S. DOE, Contract No. W-7405- ENG-48.
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Lambert, H.E., Lim, J.J., Gilman, F.M. (1980). Material Control Study: A Directed Graph and Fault-Tree Procedure for Adversary Event Set Generation. In: Apostolakis, G., Garribba, S., Volta, G. (eds) Synthesis and Analysis Methods for Safety and Reliability Studies. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3036-3_23
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