MPCA Operations Monitor ing System (MOM) Implementation at Public Corporation “Production Association “Sevmash”

摘要

The Material Protection, Control and Accounting (MPC&A) Program has been working inclose cooperation with Russian nuclear sites since 1994 to upgrade physical protectionsystems as well as enhance nuclear material control and accounting (MC&A) functions atthose sites with weapon grade nuclear materials. At the beginning of 2001, within theframework of the MPC&A Program, the MPC&A Operations Monitoring (MOM) Project wasinitiated. The main objective of the MOM Project was to monitor those sites where theMPC&A systems had been upgraded to ensure that the facility personnel were vigilant andpresent at their work places, the security procedures were being followed, and to provideadditional assurance that nuclear material was not stolen or diverted. The MOM Projectstarted as a pilot installation at the Moscow State Engineering and Physics Institute (MEPhI)where the MOM system was successfully installed in October of 2001. Following thesuccessful realization of the pilot project at MEPhI the installation of MOM systems withinthe framework of the MPC&A Program expanded to other Russian sites including the PublicCorporation (PC) “Production Association (PA) “Sevmash” in Severodvinsk, Russia. TheMOM system was installed at PC “PA “Sevmash” in September 2008.