Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 0abe910e-a8ee-47e5-aad0-5cb695cb55a7
Document Type: srp
Title: PHYSICAL SECURITY—COMBINED LICENSE AND OPERATING REACTORS
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1022/ML102230082.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 13
Section ID: 13.6.1
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REVIEW RESPONSIBILITIES Primary - Organization responsible for the review of physical security Secondary - None I. AREAS OF REVIEW The review evaluates the security plans (physical security, training and qualification, and safeguards contingency plans collectively, the Security Plan), which together describe a comprehensive physical security program for combined license (COL) applicants and operating reactor licensees. The review encompasses the regulatory requirements in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Section 73.55, “Requirements for Physical Protection of Licensed Activities in Nuclear Power Reactors Against Radiological Sabotage,” and Appendix B, “General Criteria for Security Personnel,” and Appendix C, “Nuclear Power Plant Safeguards Contingency Plans,” to 10 CFR Part 73, “Physical Protection of Plants and Materials.” It includes the physical security organization; access controls, including physical barriers; searches of personnel, materials, and vehicles; a means of detection, assessment, delay, and response; the selection of personnel for security purposes; training and qualifying security personnel; the response to contingency events; and arrangements with law enforcement authorities for assistance in responding to security threats. It also includes a review of the 13.6.1-2 Revision 1 - October 2010 description for implementation of the security plan (implementation schedule) for the physical security program, including phases for a multiunit plant, where applicable. In addition to the requirements outlined in 10 CFR 73.55 and Appendices B and C to 10 CFR Part 73, the Security Plan must describe measures that will be taken to meet the general performance objective of 10 CFR 73.55(b) to ensure, by implementing the requirements in 10 CFR 73.55(a) through (k), that the overall level of system performance provides high assurance of the protection against the design-basis threat (DBT) of radiological sabotage, as defined in 10