INL TECHNOLOGIES

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daho National Laboratory 

(INL) serves as the U.S. 

Department of Energy lead 

laboratory for nuclear energy 

and fuel cycle technologies. As 

such, the laboratory is steward 

to an impressive host of nuclear 

energy and fuel cycle operations and expertise, including 

two operating nuclear reactors, 

fuel processing facilities, fuel 

and nuclear materials storage, 

operating hot cell facilities, and 

a variety of irradiated and unirradiated nuclear materials. 

Since 1994, INL has used this 

first-hand experience and its 

operating facilities to provide 

instructional and hands-on 

nuclear material protection, 

Material Protection Control & 

Accountability Interactive Evaluation 

and Training Center

control and accountability and 

emergency management training to personnel responsible for 

security at commercial nuclear 

reactors, research reactors and 

facilities world-wide. Beginning in 1997, this training has 

been conducted at the Material 

Protection, Control and Accountability (MPC&A) Interactive Evaluation and Training 

Center located within the Materials and Fuels Complex on the 

INL near Idaho Falls, Idaho. 

International Experience 

INL staff has provided 

MPC&A training to personnel 

from China, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. Our experts have also 

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Securing the Nuclear 

Fuel Cycle

INL offers comprehensive 

MPC&A system evaluations 

and demonstrations in 

conjunction with an operating 

nuclear R&D environment, 

providing real world 

safeguards and security 

techniques and approaches. 

Kazakhstan students 

discussing vehicle search 

techniques.
INL TECHNOLOGIES

07-GA50317-02

Bruce Meppen

(208) 526-7022

bruce.meppen@inl.gov

Wade Smout

(208) 533-7936

wade.smout@inl.gov

A U.S. Department of Energy

National Laboratory

For more information

Continued from previous page as adjunct instructors, provide additional credibility 

for students coming from 

commercial or research reactor facilities. 

Expert instructors include:

• Protective force staff

• Security experts

• Electronic security system 

experts

• Surveillance system experts

• Emergency management 

personnel

• Information technology 

professionals

Interactive Modules

The following training modules have been developed and 

are immediately available:

• Material Protection, Control 

and Accountability

• Emergency Management

• Guard Force Procedures

• Access Control Equipment 

and Operations

• Electronic Security Systems

• Vehicle Searches

• Lock and Key Control

• Performance Testing

• Central Alarm Station 

Operations

• System Testing and 

Maintenance

• Video Surveillance

• MPC&A Inspection 

Techniques

Exercises

Practical exercises in the following topical areas are also 

available:

• Evaluation of S&S Effectiveness at Nuclear Facilities

• Managing Emergency 

Events

• Command and Control

• System Testing and 

Maintenance 

• Access Control

• Lock and Key Control

The MPC&A Interactive 

Evaluation and Training Center 

is equipped with a perimeter 

intrusion detection and 

assessment system, a central 

alarm station, simulated vault and 

access control systems.

Hands-on Central Alarm 

Station operations 

evaluation.

provided inspection techniques 

training to State Regulators 

from Latvia, Kazakhstan, Russia and the Ukraine. 

Facility

The MPC&A Interactive 

Evaluation and Training Center 

is conveniently located, and in 

most cases, can accommodate 

foreign national students. The 

training is provided in conjunction with an operating environment, allowing students to learn 

standardized techniques and 

approaches to safeguards and 

security employed within the 

DOE complex, in a real-world 

environment. Students are also 

able to evaluate the effectiveness of the techniques and 

approaches as well as physical 

protection systems, using a 

full suite of operating detection and assessment systems 

and a fully functioning Central 

Alarm Station (CAS). All of 

these capabilities are offered 

in one complex – the MPC&A 

Interactive Evaluation and 

Training Center.

Qualified Instructors

The instructor cadre is made 

up of physical security and 

material control and accountability experts and 

security systems technicians. 

Operational personnel, used