Publications

High-Level Considerations for Access and Access Controls by Design

Bland, Jesse J.; Evans, Alan S.; Goolsby, Tommy D.; Horowitz, Steven M.; Monthan, Chad W.; Osborn, Douglas M.; Rivers, Joe R.; Rodgers, Thomas W.; White, Jake W.; Williams, Adam D.

Nuclear power plants must be, by design and construction, robust structures and difficult to penetrate. Limiting access with difficult-to-penetrate physical barriers is going to be key for staffing reduction. Ideally, for security, the reactors would be sited underground, beneath a massive solid block, too thick to be penetrated by tools or explosives with all communications and power transfer lines also underground and fortified. Having the minimal possible number of access points and methods to completely block access from these points if a threat is detected will greatly help us justify staffing reduction.