Status of NRC Securit

Policy Initiatives

September 14, 2006

Glenn Tracy

Director, Security Policy Division
Overview

• Transition from Orders to Rulem• Nuclear Material Security Initiati• Status of Homeland Security 

Initiatives

• New Reactor Security
Power Reactor Security Ord

• February 25, 2002 

– Orders formalizing specific enhancements to 

security already undertaken by licensees

• January 7, 2003

– Orders enhanced access authorization 

requirements

• April 29, 2003

– Orders required specific enhancements related 

• Supplemented design basis threat• Guard training and qualification• Work hour limitations for security force members
Nuclear Materials Orders

• Large Panoramic Irradiators Security 

Measures Order - June 6, 2003

• Manufacturing and Distribution (M&D) 

Licensees Security Measures Order - Ja12, 2004 

• Transportation of Radioactive Material (

Quantities of Concern (QC) – July 19, 2

• Measures for other types of sources by 

prioritized groups of licenses 
Transition from Orders 

Rulemaking

• 2006 is the Year of Security Rulemakings

– Reactor Rulemaking Activities

• Design Basis Threat – 73.1• Reactor Security Requirements – 73.55• Security Assessment Rulemaking – 73.62• Fitness for Duty Program – Part 26• Protection of Safeguards Information – 73.21

– Nuclear Materials Rulemaking Activities

• Access Authorization for Non-Reactors – Part 73• Nuclear Mtrls. Management & Safeguards System – Parts 40/• Material Control & Accountability Program – Part 74• Secure Transfer of Nuclear Materials – 73.28• Geologic Repository Operations Area Rulemaking – 73.53• Radium and Naturally Occurring and Accelerator-Produced Ra

Material (NARM) Rulemaking – Part 20
Nuclear Material Security Initia

• Source Tracking and Material Accountability

– Nuclear Materials Management and Safeguards Sys

(NMMSS) - U.S. national database used by NRC and D

– Interim Inventory - ‘Snapshot’ survey begun in 2004 c

NRC and Agreement State licensees, not DOE sourceIAEA Category 1 and 2 sources; annually updated untiSource Tracking System in place

– National Source Tracking System (NSTS) – Web-ba

to improve source accountability and give better informdecision-makers.

• NRC Collaboration with DHS’s Domestic Nuclea

Detection Office (DNDO) - Objective is to improve Na

capability to detect and report unauthorized attempts to impossess, store, develop, or transport nuclear or radiologicafor malevolent use.
Interactions with 

Department of Homeland Sec

Comprehensive Review (CR) Ove

CR: Cooperative government, community, a

private sector analysis of high-consequencritical infrastructure and key resources to prevent, mitigate, and respond to catastroall-hazard events. 

Current Status: 34 sites complete, averagin

month, with an estimated completion date 2007
Interactions with Department 

Homeland Security

Integrated Response Activities

• National Response Plan (NRP)• National Incident Management Sys

(NIMS)

• National Infrastructure Protection P

(NIPP)

• Nuclear Sector Specific Plan (SSP• Comprehensive Review (CR)• Integrated Response Enhancemen
New Reactor Securit

• Licensing

– Standard Review Plan and Generic Security Plan revisi– Inspection, Test, Analyses, and Acceptance Criteria (IT

Department of Homeland Security consultations

– Ongoing Design Certification and Early Site Permit revi

• Policy development

– Requirements during new reactor construction phase– Industry proposals and other technical, programmatic, a

scheduling considerations

• Oversight Programs

– Inspector Program Oversight and Inspector Training
Status of Security Operat

September 14, 2006

Daniel Dorman

Director, Division of Security Operations
Overview

• Security Oversight• Force-on-Force 

Implementation

• Information 

Management & Information Sharing

• Summary
Security Oversight

• Completed focused inspections Dec • Increased focus areas• Achieved full inspection stability• Public access• Annual Report to Congress• Mitigating Strategy Enhancements• Spent Fuel Material Control and 

Accountability

• Other Facilities
Force-on-Force Implementa

• First full year of the new program• 21 inspections conducted in 2005• 16 inspections to-date in 2006• Fully incorporated into Baseline Insp

Program

• Summary of results to-date
Information Manageme

• Safeguards Information Designation • Safeguards Information Awareness 

Designators Course

• 73.21 Rulemaking• NUREG 0794, “Protection of Unclas

Safeguards Information”
Information Sharing

• Interagency activities in Classified and 

Sensitive Unclassified Information programs.

– A presidential task force is attempting to 

standardize sensitive unclassified informasecurity categories and handling requiremacross the federal government.

– Changes are being proposed to long stan

concepts in the classified information aree.g., need-to-know and the Third Agency for access and distribution of information
Key Challenges

• Updating inspection procedures• Communicating and sharing operating 

experience and inspection information

• New Reactor Oversight• Continuous improvement through effectiv

and efficiency
Strategies for Success

Maintaining Stability of the Security Prog

• Update Oversight Program

– Security inspection program

• Procedures, etc.

– Expand ROP security cornerstone to in

material control and accounting (MC&A

• Transfer reactor MC&A inspection 

programs to Regions

• 2nd cycle FOF enhancements
Strategies for Success

Continuous Improvement

• Continuous improvement in organiz

effectiveness

• Use information technology to facilit

business processes

• Enhance knowledge management
Security Operations Summ

• Stability and consistency achieved• Continued focus on protecting the 

public

• Anticipating the future and enhancin

effectiveness
Related Security Topic

September 14, 2006

John Tomlinson

Senior Policy Advisor on Secur
2005 Energy Policy Ac

Examples of Security-Related Pro• Design Basis Threat• Enhanced Weaponry• Force On Force• Federal Security Coordinator Initiative• Enhanced Fingerprinting Protocols• Sabotage/Introduction of Weapons & Exp• New Reactor DHS-NRC Consultation
Interagency Cooperation and 

Collaboration On Security

• Modeling• Intelligence Sharing• Communications Interoperability• Government Accountability Office R• Operational Security (OPSEC)