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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1 - October 2010 The safeguards contingency plan must contain a level of information regarding contingency situations, in general, sufficient to ensure an understanding of duties and responsibilities necessary to effectively deal with and counter identified contingency events. The safeguards contingency plan is designed and implemented to provide protection against the DBT of radiological sabotage, as described in 10 CFR 73.1 and associated adversary characteristics. RG 5.69 contains additional guidance regarding adversary characteristics of the DBT of radiological sabotage. The safeguards contingency plan, at a minimum, will describe the following areas: background, generic planning base, licensee planning base, responsibility matrix, and implementing procedure descriptions. The licensee need not submit implementing procedures to the NRC. Background: 10 CFR Part 73, Appendix C, Section II, B.1. Guidelines The background shall describe, at a minimum, the following areas in the safeguards contingency plan: purpose and scope of the plan, perceived danger (general description of the threat posed by the DBT), and any applicable definitions. Generic Planning Base: 10 CFR Part 73, Appendix C, Section II, B.2. Guidelines The safeguards contingency plan shall contain a generic planning base that identifies those events that will be used for signaling the beginning or aggravation of a safeguards contingency event, according to how they are perceived initially by licensee personnel. The generic planning base should address event initiation, such as the detection of unauthorized activities; the response to all alarms or other indications signaling a security event, such as penetration of a protected area, vital area, or unauthorized barrier penetration (vehicle or personnel); tampering; and bomb threats or other threat warnings—either verbal, such as telephoned threats, or implied, such as escalating civil disturbances. The generic planning base within the safeguards