Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 03aed7b8-74fc-467b-b928-b25d9eb89a13
Document Type: srp
Title: PHYSICAL SECURITY — REVIEW OF PHYSICAL SECURITY SYSTEM
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1301/ML13010A109.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 13
Section ID: 13.6.2
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describes the licensing review philosophy and framework the NRC staff applies for new reactor design certification and combined license applications under 10 CFR Part 52. The introduction states that the risk-informed review framework is applicable to the review of all SSCs, but it may not apply to the review of programmatic, procedural, organizational, or other topics, which, because of their safety or risk significance, are reviewed at the appropriate level determined by the technical branches performing the reviews. For example, the program or topical area may address regulatory requirements not amenable to a risk-informed approach (i.e., conditional risk with a probability equal to one). In the case of physical security, the review framework involves performance and prescriptive regulatory requirements that do not incorporate risk significance and address protection against deliberate acts, such as the DBT for radiological sabotage. 2. At a minimum, the design certification application must provide sufficiently detailed design information to permit the preparation of acceptance and inspection requirements by the NRC and procurement, construction and installation specifications by an applicant for the physical security systems within the scope of the design. This information typically includes the design of a physical protection systems (i.e., detection, assessment, communications, and response), which provide protection against the DBT of radiological sabotage, and is subject to established prescriptive design requirements of 10 CFR Part 73. The design descriptions of physical security systems should include structures, systems, and components relied on to protect against insider threats and implementing interior security response within the nuclear island and structures. The design descriptions should include the physical security systems for providing delay of adversaries, the protection of security responders (e.g., mall gates, vault doors, grenade nets,