Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 159cf729-f983-4b84-a109-82ef8efdeb60
Document Type: srp
Title: COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0705/ML070550037.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 9
Section ID: 9.5.2
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rmation regarding the requirements of 10 CFR 73.45(g)(4)(i) will be found acceptable if communications networks are provided to transmit rapid and accurate security information among onsite forces for routine security operation, assessment of a contingency, and response to a contingency. 12. Information regarding the requirements of 10 CFR 73.46(f) will be found acceptable if each guard, watchman, or armed response individual on duty shall be capable of maintaining continuous communication with an individual in each continuously manned alarm station required by 10CFR 73.46(e)(5), who shall be capable of calling for assistance from other guards, watchmen, and armed response personnel and from law enforcement authorities; each alarm station required by 10 CFR 73.46(e)(5) shall have both conventional telephone service and radio or microwave transmitted two-way voice communication, either directly or through an intermediary, for the capability of communication with the law enforcement authorities; and non-portable communications equipment controlled by the licensee and required by 10CFR 73.46(f) shall remain operable from independent power sources in the event of the loss of normal power. 13. Information regarding the requirements of 10 CFR 73.55(e) will be found acceptable if all alarms required by 10 CFR 73.55 annunciate in a continuously manned central alarm station located within the protected area and in at least one other continuously manned station not necessarily onsite, so that a single act cannot remove the capability of calling 9.5.2-6 Revision 3 - March 2007 for assistance or otherwise responding to an alarm. The onsite central alarm station must be considered a vital area and its walls, doors, ceiling, floor, and any windows in the walls and in the doors must be bullet-resisting. The onsite central alarm station must be located within a building in such a manner that the interior of the central alarm station is not visible from the perimeter of the