Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 5aa1e4e0-9f6f-46a8-b372-ab029c3c0c94
Document Type: srp
Title: PHYSICAL SECURITY—DESIGN CERTIFICATION
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1025/ML102510273.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 13
Section ID: 13.6.2
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nt, and surveillance equipment consistent with their intended function. Access control systems shall be designed to accommodate the potential need for rapid ingress or egress of authorized individuals during emergency conditions or situations that could lead to emergency conditions. 3. 10 CFR 73.55(i). Intrusion detection and assessment systems must be established and maintained to satisfy the design requirements of 10 CFR 73.55(b) and to provide, at all times, the capability to detect and assess unauthorized persons and facilitate the effective implementation of the licensee’s protective strategy. Intrusion detection equipment must annunciate, and video assessment equipment shall display concurrently, in at least two continuously staffed onsite alarm stations. Intrusion detection and assessment systems must be designed to provide visual and audible annunciation of the alarm, ensure that annunciation of an alarm indicates the type and location of the alarm, ensure that alarm devices that include transmission lines to annunciators are tamper indicating and self-checking, and provide an automatic indication when the alarm system or a component of the alarm system fails or when the system is operating on the backup power supply. Intrusion detection and assessment equipment at the protected area perimeter must remain operable from a UPS in the event of the loss of normal power. Both alarm stations must be designed and equipped to ensure that a single act, in accordance with the definition of design-basis threat of radiological sabotage provided in 10 CFR 73.1(a)(1), cannot disable both alarm stations. The survivability of at least one alarm station shall be ensured to maintain the facility’s ability to detect and assess alarms, initiate and coordinate an adequate response to an alarm, summon offsite assistance, and provide command and control. The CAS shall be located inside a protected area. The interior of the CAS must not be visible from the perimeter of the