Open AccessOpportunities for Process Monitoring Techniques at Delayed Access Facilities
Author(s) -
Michael M. Curtis,
Ernest Tn Gitau,
Shirley J. Johnson,
Mark Schanfein,
Christopher Toomey
Publication year - 2013
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/1097935
Subject(s) - notice , process (computing) , agency (philosophy) , state agency , state (computer science) , engineering , computer science , transport engineering , operations management , business , law , operating system , philosophy , subject (documents) , epistemology , algorithm , library science , political science
Except for specific cases where the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) maintains a continuous presence at a facility (such as the Japanese Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant), there is always a period of time or delay between the moment a State is notified or aware of an upcoming inspection, and the time the inspector actually enters the material balance area or facility. Termed by the authors as “delayed access,” this period of time between inspection notice and inspector entrance to a facility poses a concern. Delayed access also has the potential to reduce the effectiveness of measures applied as part of the Safeguards Approach for a facility (such as short-notice inspections). This report investigates the feasibility of using process monitoring to address safeguards challenges posed by delayed access at a subset of facility types