Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 13, September 23, 2024
Subpart 1.
Monitoring and detection.
A.
Licensees must establish and maintain the capability to continuously monitor
and detect without delay all unauthorized entries into its security zones.
Licensees must provide the means to maintain continuous monitoring and
detection capability in the event of a loss of the primary power source, or
provide for an alarm and response in the event of a loss of this capability to
continuously monitor and detect unauthorized entries.
B. Monitoring and detection must be performed
by:
(1) a monitored intrusion detection
system that is linked to an on-site or off-site central monitoring
facility;
(2) electronic devices
for intrusion detection alarms that will alert nearby facility
personnel;
(3) a monitored video
surveillance system;
(4) direct
visual surveillance by approved individuals located within the security zone;
or
(5) direct visual surveillance
by a licensee designated individual located outside the security
zone.
C. A licensee
subject to parts 4731.8050 to 4731.8090 must also have a means to detect
unauthorized removal of the radioactive material from the security zone. This
detection capability must provide:
(1) for
category 1 quantities of radioactive material, immediate detection of any
attempted unauthorized removal of the radioactive material from the security
zone. Such immediate detection capability must be provided by:
(a) electronic sensors linked to an
alarm;
(b) continuous monitored
video surveillance; or
(c) direct
visual surveillance; or
(2) for category 2 quantities of radioactive
material, weekly verification through physical checks, tamper-indicating
devices, use, or other means to ensure that the radioactive material is
present.
Subp.
2.
Assessment.
Licensees must immediately assess each actual or attempted
unauthorized entry into the security zone to determine whether the unauthorized
access was an actual or attempted theft, sabotage, or diversion.
Subp. 3.
Personnel
communications and data transmission.
For personnel and automated or electronic systems supporting
the licensee's monitoring, detection, and assessment systems, licensees
must:
A. maintain continuous
capability for personnel communication and electronic data transmission and
processing among site security systems; and
B. provide an alternative communication
capability for personnel, and an alternative data transmission and processing
capability, in the event of a loss of the primary means of communication or
data transmission and processing. Alternative communications and data
transmission systems may not be subject to the same failure modes as the
primary systems.
Subp.
4.
Response.
Licensees must immediately respond to any actual or attempted
unauthorized access to the security zones, or actual or attempted theft,
sabotage, or diversion of category 1 or category 2 quantities of radioactive
material at licensee facilities or temporary job sites. For any unauthorized
access involving an actual or attempted theft, sabotage, or diversion of
category 1 or category 2 quantities of radioactive material, the licensee's
response must include requesting, without delay, an armed response from the
LLEA.
