| INFORMATION PROTECTION
WHEN APPLYING SAFEGUARDS TO CENTRIFUGE ENRICHMENT FACILITIES Orpet
J.M. Peixoto
Abstract
The application of safeguards in sensitive installations is always a balanced
task where the safeguards organization must accomplish their safeguards
objectives and at the same time to avoid accessing unnecessary information
which may be used in proliferation activity.
On the other side the installation owner wants to protect what he considers
to be sensitive or commercial information. Usually the protective control
measures introduced by the plant operators make the safeguards activities
more complex and requiring more safeguards effort in order to fulfill the
safeguards objectives.
The safeguard approach currently applied for commercial centrifuge enrichment
facilities are based on the Hexapartite Project, which during its development
took the information protection in consideration. However in some plants,
due to special requirements, the Hexapartite control measures can not fully
applied and other specific alternatives control measures shall be implemented.
The paper discusses the hole of sensitive information protection based
on non-proliferation issues, disclosing of technological and commercial
information and also on some state owner political concerns. A concise analysis
on information protection taking into account the safeguards approaches
and activities, the inspection effort and the plant profile is presented.
The paper also suggests points to be considered by agencies and plant owner
in order to have an information protection balanced safeguards approach.
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