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Technical Safeguards Terminology
- Purpose, Objective, and Scope of IAEA Safeguards
- Safeguards Approaches, Concepts, and Measures
- Nuclear and Non-Nuclear Material: Basic Terms
- Nuclear and Nuclear-Related Activities and Installations
- Nuclear Material Accountancy
- Nuclear Material Measurement Techniques and Equipment
- Containment, Surveillance, and Monitoring
- Environmental Sampling
- Safeguards Information and Evaluation
- > > Physical Protection Systems
- Acceptance testing
- Access control
- Activated Delay
- Activated denial
- Adversary
- Adversary Action Sequence
- Adversary class
- Adversary neutralization
- Adversary path
- Adversary Sequence Diagram
- Adversary sequence modeling
- Adversary task
- Alarm assessment
- Alarm Communication and Display (AC&D)
- Alternate access points
- Assessment
- Automated access control system
- Central Alarm Station
- Contraband
- DDDRR of Security Risk
- Deceit
- Defeat
- Defense in Depth
- Delay
- Denial
- Deployment
- Design and Evalution Process Outline (DEPO)
- Design Basis Threat (DBT)
- Detection
- Deterrence
- Diversion
- Entry control
- Event
- Facility Characterization
- False Alarm
- Force
- Guards
- IAEA Categorization of Nuclear Material
- Impostor pass rate
- Improvised nuclear device (IND)
- Inner Area
- Insider
- Intrusion Detection
- Isolation zone
- Local Communications
- Material Access Area
- Nations that Are Parties to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material
- Nuclear terrorism
- Nuisance Alarm
- Nuisance Alarm Rate (NAR)
- Outsider
- Path
- Patrol
- Performance Criteria Approach
- Physical Barrier
- Physical Protection Systems
- Physical Security
- Probability of detection
- Probability of interruption
- Probability of Neutralization
- Probability of sensing
- Protected Area
- Radiological dispersion device (RDD)
- Radiological exposure device (RED)
- Requirements for Physical Protection Against Unauthorized Removal of Nuclear Material in Use and Storage
- Response force time
- Response Forces
- Risk Assessment
- Sabotage
- Scenario
- Security Survey
- Single Path Analysis
- Stealth
- Target Identification
- Theft
- Threat
- Threat Assessment
- Timely Detection
- Transport
- Transport Control Center
- Unauthorized Removal
- Upgrade
- Vehicle-born improvised explosive device
- Vital Area
- Vulnerability
- Zone
- Threats to Nuclear Security
- Index of Terms
Physical Protection Systems
A Physical Protection System (PPS) integrates people, procedures and equipment for the protection of assets and/or facilities against theft, sabotage, and other malevolent human acts. It can be applied to either facilities or transportation vehicles.
According to the IAEA (INFCIRC/225/Rev.4), the objectives of the State's physical protection system should be:
- To establish conditions which would minimize the possibilities for unauthorized removal of nuclear material and/or for sabotage
- To provide information and technical assistance in support of rapid and comprehensive measures by the State to locate and recover missing nuclear material and to cooperate with safety authorities in minimizing the radiological consequences of sabotage.
Related Links
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Technical Safeguards Terminology
- Purpose, Objective, and Scope of IAEA Safeguards
- Safeguards Approaches, Concepts, and Measures
- Nuclear and Non-Nuclear Material: Basic Terms
- Nuclear and Nuclear-Related Activities and Installations
- Nuclear Material Accountancy
- Nuclear Material Measurement Techniques and Equipment
- Containment, Surveillance, and Monitoring
- Environmental Sampling
- Safeguards Information and Evaluation
- > > Physical Protection Systems
- Acceptance testing
- Access control
- Activated Delay
- Activated denial
- Adversary
- Adversary Action Sequence
- Adversary class
- Adversary neutralization
- Adversary path
- Adversary Sequence Diagram
- Adversary sequence modeling
- Adversary task
- Alarm assessment
- Alarm Communication and Display (AC&D)
- Alternate access points
- Assessment
- Automated access control system
- Central Alarm Station
- Contraband
- DDDRR of Security Risk
- Deceit
- Defeat
- Defense in Depth
- Delay
- Denial
- Deployment
- Design and Evalution Process Outline (DEPO)
- Design Basis Threat (DBT)
- Detection
- Deterrence
- Diversion
- Entry control
- Event
- Facility Characterization
- False Alarm
- Force
- Guards
- IAEA Categorization of Nuclear Material
- Impostor pass rate
- Improvised nuclear device (IND)
- Inner Area
- Insider
- Intrusion Detection
- Isolation zone
- Local Communications
- Material Access Area
- Nations that Are Parties to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material
- Nuclear terrorism
- Nuisance Alarm
- Nuisance Alarm Rate (NAR)
- Outsider
- Path
- Patrol
- Performance Criteria Approach
- Physical Barrier
- Physical Protection Systems
- Physical Security
- Probability of detection
- Probability of interruption
- Probability of Neutralization
- Probability of sensing
- Protected Area
- Radiological dispersion device (RDD)
- Radiological exposure device (RED)
- Requirements for Physical Protection Against Unauthorized Removal of Nuclear Material in Use and Storage
- Response force time
- Response Forces
- Risk Assessment
- Sabotage
- Scenario
- Security Survey
- Single Path Analysis
- Stealth
- Target Identification
- Theft
- Threat
- Threat Assessment
- Timely Detection
- Transport
- Transport Control Center
- Unauthorized Removal
- Upgrade
- Vehicle-born improvised explosive device
- Vital Area
- Vulnerability
- Zone
- Threats to Nuclear Security
- Index of Terms