U.S. Department of Energy security technologies

Author

Smith, G. Dan ; Piechowski, Carl J. ; Pocratsky, Carl A. ; Sparks, Michael H.

Author_Institution

Office of Safeguards & Security, USDOE, Germantown, MD, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

37165

Firstpage

19

Lastpage

26

Abstract

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has had a program that develops technologies to protect sensitive nuclear weapons facilities for more than 40 years. Basic security system engineering concepts are still valid, but the details of the system at DOE facilities must constantly be updated to respond to the escalating terrorist threat and the need to replace aging components and systems. The mission of the program is overwhelmingly diverse, as it must be, to protect an array of assets such as nuclear weapons, special nuclear material in various forms, components of nuclear weapons, classified nuclear weapons design information, nuclear facilities, national laboratories, and US energy infrastructure. Considering the facts that the nuclear weapons complex consists of dozens of facilities that are scattered all over the United States, and that no two facilities are alike, the technology development mission is very challenging

Keywords

government policies; nuclear explosions; security; weapons; DOE; US Department of Energy; United States; aging components; classified nuclear weapons design information; escalating terrorist threat; national laboratories; nuclear facilities; security system engineering concepts; sensitive nuclear weapons facilities; special nuclear material; technology development mission; Defense industry; Laboratories; Nuclear weapons; Personnel; Power engineering and energy; Production; Protection; Security; Sparks; US Department of Energy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Security Technology, 2001 IEEE 35th International Carnahan Conference on

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6636-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/.2001.962807

Filename

962807